Born to clip

As nature played out barbering was in the blood , never intended to be an barber, dad always tried to talk me out of it. But he was not successful in that, i am a barber now. So in need of a career after not being able to continue my service due to serve cuts to many of us to be exact.
So in having been born into barbering coming from a whole line of barbers it was natural for me to choose my career, what a better way to start as a barber than to have it in your blood. So having tried college first which didn’t have the mind for it ,dropped out and decided to begin a career in barbering which at the time was a great choice for me as it turned out.

Since my mother had went to Bailey Barber College in the 70’s she was one of two female barbers in Lexington at the time so that’s was a milestone for women to break into a male dominated career, So the natural choice was baileys for my training, went over to woodhill plaza where it was located at the time and signed up. Didn’t have to wait , all it took was signing up and making my school payments.

At the time was working fulltime with mentally handicapped adults and worked from 10 o’clock at night to 8 in the morning and then speed off to barber school . Sleep deprived YES! The whole 9 months felt like a zombie, but made it through ended up with 982 haircuts by the end of school which at the time the record was 950 for student barber/stylist will not use stylist in my writing.

So it was time to take state examination the fee was for 120.00 I do believe at the time. Since graduated in December had to wait almost a month to take it even was not able to cut either started in January 26,1994 took state exam January 20 made an 92% on that ,it was time to do the apprenticeship at the time you had to have 18 months apprenticeship under a master barber what a better person to have than your father as your master supervisor, but he was crazy he would stop his hair cut run over to your chair screaming “ stop what are you doing? ” which embarrassed you to no end but anyway the 18 months came to a close.

It was time to take my master barbers examination it was practical only, oh forgot to mention that the apprentice examination was written and a practical also. So the day of examination you do your haircut a taper cut and a face shave and scored an 92% again, no I had completed all state requirements for master barber in the state of Kentucky. I could of moved on and opened my own shop but dad was ready to retire in a few years and would take over an already establish 100 year old business ,what an great deal already! That’s pretty much how to became a barber.