CHALLEGES
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PROFILE
FARAH FADZIL
Age: 30
Location: Kedah, Malaysia
Education Level: MBBS, UniSHAMS
Sector & Business: Services,
Headscarves line, HEEJABIS
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Brief Description: HEEJABIS is the first
wudhu' friendly headscarves that first
started from online business. This
headscarves also offers modest yet
fashionable and ready-to-wear
scarves with affordable prices.
MOTIVATIONS FOR
BECOMING
AN ENTREPRENEUR
Farah already had a good career with a
stable salary, but she notices the need for a
scarves designed with the flexibility of a
shawl and the speed and ease of wear. When
she couldn’t find a scarf that she liked, she
decided to make one. Farah started to sew
her own pinless instant headscarves that
easy to wear and go for prayers but still
fashionable, so that she can wear it at work.
Then, she started to sell it online on
Instagram and Facebook and today her own
headscarves line had sold out forty-five
minutes after release on their own website
www.heejabis.com.
sewing and choosing the materials for her
headscarves, she lacked a background in
designing. In order to compensate for this
limitation, she chose a business partner
that had years of experience in working
as a fashion designer. Farah and her
partner struggled to find an online
shopping website that willing to sell their
headscarves. Sadly, none of them wanted
to sell their headscarves due to their still
brand new status in clothing line. So,
they decided to start their own online
shopping website, www.heejabis.com in
order to sell their scarves.
ELEMENTS OF
SUCCESS
Farah believes that risk-taking and
commitment are the key elements to
entrepreneurial success. She advises
young entrepreneurs to 'don't be afraid to
take risk, give it a try, do your best and
you will be successful'. She believes that
the ability to thinks forward and 'outside
of the box' are important skills to success
and she thinks that 'hesitation and afraid
of taking risk are the main threats to
entrepreneurship'
Today, HEEJABIS is one of the most
popular headscarves line not just in
Malaysia but also well-known in
Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei. Farah
would like to expand her business in the
western countries and she also dreams to
open her headscarves pop up stores all
around the world in the future.