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When Ms Hemavarshnee Saravanan was in Secondary 4, she started a hair accessories business with a friend. It sealed her decision to apply to a polytechnic via the early admissions exercise.
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SINGAPORE – When Hemavarshnee Saravanan was in Secondary 4, she started a hair accessories business with a friend to sell scrunchies in school-approved colours.
“Students want to look as cute as possible, but it was hard to do that with school rules. So we decided to sell white or green hair ties to give students more options instead of just using black rubber bands,” says the former St Margaret’s Secondary student.
