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(image:  )    The Bachelor star, Tatum Hargraves, has revealed how her life crumbled in 2020<br> star Tatum Hargraves 'cried herself to sleep' for a month after becoming unemployed, homeless and having lost $62,000 in one soul-destroying week.<br>The 28-year-old was plunged into despair by the onset of the Covid lockdowns which forced her business to close its doors and left her in financial peril.<br>However, hitting rock bottom prompted her to take a risk on a business she had been keeping on the backburner - and it's now making millions.<br>Speaking to FEMAIL, the Melbourne-based beauty entrepreneur recounted the trauma of 2020, when she rapidly went from a very comfortable life as a cosmetic tattooist to sharing a single bed with her three-year-old nephew, wondering 'how everything went to s**t'.<br>'I would lay in bed crying, with my nephew stroking my arm telling me not to be sad,' she said.<br>And although she was 'super grateful' to her pregnant sister, her trucker husband and their two kids for making space for her in their already-cramped two-bedroom apartment it wasn't 'exactly how she envisioned life in her mid-twenties'. <br>'It was so surreal, sharing a single bed, and listening to my baby niece Camilla who's cot had been moved into the hallway because both bedrooms were full.'<br>      (image:  )    Speaking to FEMAIL the cosmetic tattooist, who had been 'doing brows' for seven years, revealed how her 'safe' beauty job disappeared overnight<br>Tatum's reversal of fortune started in March 2020, when the government declared all non-essential businesses would have to close indefinitely to restrict the spread of Covid.<br>She went from having a six-figure salary to trawling employment websites for jobs, alongside thousands of other desperate beauty and hospitality workers.<br>Devastatingly, the loss of her job coincided with the closing date for her purchase of a two-bedroom, ocean view apartment she had bought off the plan.<br>  RELATED ARTICLES                Share this article Share    She had put a $62,000 deposit on the property but made what she described as a 'rookie error' after failing to make sure the $600,000 settlement was 'subject to finance'.<br>'The banks couldn't give me any money and even my dad, who would have been happy to help me get a loan, wasn't eligible because his gym had also had to close,' she said.<br>'The property developers were not helpful or lenient or empathetic at all and told me if I complained they would charge me an extra $9,000 so I should just wash my hands and walk away,' she said.<br>      (image:  )    Tatum's mum Selina, who is now her business partner, reminded her of the 8,000 brow kits she had in storage after failing to get the business off the ground in January, 2019<br>      (image:  )    Tatum still believed in the product, which she developed for  customers who weren't ready to take on permanent makeup, and realised people were stressing in lockdown over their brows<br>'So I lost the whole deposit and didn't fight because I was scared of losing even more money that I now didn't have, it was definitely a huge lesson.'<br>Unable to pay her rent, Tatum was so desperate to put the disaster behind her that she left it furnished for the next tenant. <br>'I went into such a panic, I have had hard times in my life but I would be lying if I said this wasn't extremely difficult.  I had panic attacks and couldn't breathe when I thought about it. It was so scary,' she said.<br>Amid the anguish, Tatum had lost sight of the fact that she was 'sitting on a goldmine'.<br>      (image:  )    Instagram influencer Amelia Webb was on of the women to show off the product 'for free' from lockdown - weeks later stock was selling fast<br>A year earlier Tatum had developed a DIY brow kit, aiming to capitalise on having become one of Melbourne's best known brow tattooists after seven years in the business.<br>'A lot of clients would come and see me but were still a bit unsure about getting their brow's tattooed, so I would send them away,' she said.<br>'They would ask what temporary product I would recommend to give them their desired brow without committing to a tattoo - but there wasn't really anything out there.'<br>She discovered a way to have such a kit manufactured to her design in Taiwan,  so she invested $50,000 of her hard-earned cash into having 8,000 kits made.<br>But when they arrived in Melbourne in January 2019 she realised she lacked the know-how on getting the brand off the ground and attracting customers.<br>'I had no marketing experience and thought it would be as easy as getting an influencer to show them off, and I would sell thousands.'<br>In the meantime she put her energy into her day job, and piled the kits into a storage shed with no real plan of what to do with them.<br>      (image:  )    Tatum soon enlisted her mum to help her in the business, and now has six full-time employees<br>When the pandemic came and left her unemployed and temporarily homeless, it was Tatum's mother who reminded her of the eyebrow kits in storage and encouraged her into finally getting the business going.<br>Tatum believed in her 'The Brow Technicians' product, so despite her dented self-confidence she listened to her mum and decided to try to get it off the ground again.<br>'It was great timing because people in lockdown were really starting to freak out about their brows,' she said.<br>'So we gave them to some influencers who were keen to do free tutorials and within a week orders were flooding in.<br>'One morning I woke up to $3,000 worth of orders,' she said.<br>Within three weeks she was give her three-year-old nephew back his bed, and moved into a rental of her own.<br>'I was running the business from the garage at that point and within three months I had made $ http://bsacompliance.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=https://togelshiohk.com/ ,000,' she said.<br>Before long, the orders were not just coming from individuals but from retailers who were keen to put her kits on their shelves.<br>      (image:  )    By 2021 Tatum had found her feet again and was even invited to go on The Bachelor<br>'It was a busy time - I had never planned to have them in store so I didn't make the boxes with barcodes,' she said.<br>'So there I was sticking thousands of barcodes on boxes, and quickly selling out of stock.'<br>Tatum then got her mum in on the business and the pair moved to Queensland to escape the long Victorian lockdowns, spending a few months building the business 'in the sunshine'.<br>They ordered another 16,000 kits and their standout product has been dubbed 'Australia's fastest selling eyebrow kits'.<br>Tatum is now making a lot more money than she was when she just did cosmetic tattoos for a living.<br>'I have gone back to doing tattoos on the weekend, I really enjoy it especially because I am behind my computer all week,' she said.<br>She now employs six people full time, and has also found love after her ill-fated attempts on The Bachelor.<br>'I really had to rebuild my life from scratch, but it is better than ever,' she said.<br>Tatum is yet to re-enter the property market and says she is still 'a bit scared' to do so after her first disastrous attempt. <br>It has been two years since Tatum hit rock bottom, and she looks back on that time with bittersweet memories.<br>'I never would have expected to spend my nights crying in my nephew's arms, but I look back now and I am so thankful for him.  He was my biggest comfort,' she said.     <br>    adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement