When you are reading this note, Albertina, a humble 22 -year -old Tiktokera resident in Sucre, has probably spent the million followers in the fashion social network in the world.She, precisely, is preparing to venture into the fashion world creating her own clothing brand.Here we present them.
Albertina Sacaca Callahuara launches a whistle to alert that there is a block below where email from the south was looking for her, in the Chayanta neighborhood of the Lajastambo area."Here I live!".What a challa, is from Chayanta and lives in a homonymous neighborhood of its native province!He treats us with a unique, simple and safe naturalness.Open a tin door and invite us to pass.
Born in the Jatun Court Baja community, municipality occurred from the Chayanta province, department of Potosí, this young brunette is a sensation, a ‘bombing’ in the world of short videos with their tricks, dances and challenges.Its contents deal with their daily life, tips to dress, cook and, above all, its culture, the northepotosin Quechua.
Thin and smiling, wears a two -piece sports diver.A braid was made in its long and black/black hair that, even so, it reaches almost the waist.And keep laughing while talking, and we are familiar with the interview.
His house has no perimeter walls, except the one that holds the entrance door.The Earth Patio has only given up a rustic two -storey construction with improvised rooms and bleachers, owned by their paternal grandparents.Based walls near basic environments with empty cement floors, precarious electrical energy connections, metal cuisine, venestay doors atibored windows of earth and dust.
"Previously I worked, but with this videos no longer gives me much and, apart (are) the virtual classes".They are his first words when we enter the subject.@Albertinasacaca1 is a passionate Tiktokera and second year student of Physical Education at the Normal School of Villa Serrano.
Don Pablo daughter (mason) and Mrs. Flora (housewife), is the third of seven brothers.“I started (in Tiktok) like any other person.I didn't imagine that I was going to get to so many people: I still don't believe it, ”he says in the midst of laughs.He started with a Samsung Galaxy J5 and today has a J7;It is your window to the world and opens it and closes it with its particular touch every day.
The entire interview has as an ingredient its spicy smile brushing the laughter.Except for two moments, when tears touch the border of their eyelids:
“Oh no! I'm going to cry.I am very sensitive when talking about my family ".
An unsuspected success
On Friday he lacked 35 thousand followers to reach the million;Saturday, less than 25 thousand.They are figures that very few Bolivians of the Tiktoker generation could reach!
It does not disguise anything or use tourist attractions or emblematic places, nor the filters that Tiktok has enabled.They will not see it showing something quirky or karaokeing a reggaeton.
What is your success?"I think it's because of my way of being, for not hiding anything, because I always try to show the world my culture, experience, how you live here," he replies.
He adds that “I like people to accept my content thus;I love it, it's pretty ".
“Many times there are people from other countries who tell me:‘ Is the culture of Bolivia really so beautiful?Oh! The food ’.I don't know, many things, like ‘I didn't know Bolivia existed’.There are comments like this, ”he strives to explain.
Just as he received this newspaper at home, it is also on the Chinese firm Bytedance platform.This is also in Lajastambo, a north of the city, one of the peri -urban and impoverished areas of greater expansion in the last decade.
His family, life...
It does not have it easy, like many, worse in times of crisis and Covid-19, but Albertina is sure of what she does, and believes that the Tiktok will soon bear fruit to generate some income.
When talking about the reality of his family, he says that it is “constant struggle, especially for the pandemic, which has taken us very surprise.(But) the truth, we are very fighters, very workers ".
And when asked what life is for her, raise her voice and answer firmly and with a message: “I think it's a battle.Do not leave, nothing stops them ".
If we return to the family, break through sadness;He confesses that “my family is the only thing that keeps me like this (cheerful, entrepreneur and safe).For them I do everything, they are the first in my life ".
Love your parents.When asked in Quechua what he would tell you from the bottom of his heart, the spirits rise again."I love you, for them I'm going to go very far.I will fulfill many things and I will go very far ”.
YOUR CULTURE
"If at some point God blesses me to have‘ money ’, I would like to help my parents," he complements.
Albertina is one and all the claudinas that Adolfo Costa Du relas (the Misk'i Simi –Boca Dulce), Carlos Medinaceli Quintana (La Ch'aska ñawi –Ojos lit), Antonio Díaz Villamil (the girl of her eyes) or Jaime MendozaGonzález (in the lands of the Potosí) portrayed in his traditional works, although you did not see Pollera.But he is already sharpening to return to his village this month and dance at a communal party, surely flirted with his tinku ajsu.
And he loves his culture and his Quechua that sings in Tiktok: “Waranqa Watas Pasachun, Ama Chinkachunchu;Qhishwa Parlayninchiq, Ch’uwalla Kapuchun (although hundreds of years pass, not to be forgotten; our Quechua language remains clean/pure) ””.The music of another norteopotosina, Luzmila Carpio.
“People have been encouraging me to believe my own clothing brand, I have started (the Tiktoks) with that.I bought clothes in the American and modified the garments and showed.What I am wanting to venture is clothes, many people tell me 'What beautiful what you use, how beautiful you dress' and tell me' create your clothing brand, I'm going to buy you yes or yes, I like your style'… ".
Albertina Sacaca hoped to reach a million followers on Tiktok to turn her routines, and has decided to create her own clothing brand to generate income.
"Yes, let's start with a garment, let's start with a garment, because there is no 'money' (laughs), in the next one they will be two ... in the third they will be three.You never have to limit yourself, no, never! ”He says very sure of his next steps.Will make dress clothes and weave wool and chopsticks.
Now he smiles excited to remember a recent trip to La Paz, where he landed for a television interview thanks to his ‘fame Tiktokera’.He was paid tickets, food and stay.“I've come like an ekeko, hahaha.With many details.Thank you very much to all the people there, they are very affectionate, ”he says.
And it also has its marked roadmap to enhance its arrival, its ‘attached’, in other social networks.On Facebook it has more than 80 thousand followers;The same is on Instagram and YouTube.
“I am starting to make more cultural blogs, more than my day to day, and people have begun to like.What has encouraged me most is that they tell me: ‘You will not be able to’.At the beginning, they told me ‘there are prettier girls than you’ ”.
