Editors Letter

We bring you BarberShop Magazine from the land of the Kabi Kabi and Yugambah peoples. A very warm welcome to you one and all wherever you are reading us.

Ok, we are about to turn the lights up and the music down as we wrap up BarberShop Magazine’s 10th Birthday with our last issue for the year. Thanks for being on the show!

We are also wrapping up some features within, as this issue bares the last instalments from our esteemed American and European correspondents. Sofie StayGold and Bertus the Bloody Butcher. I hope you have enjoyed getting to know these 2 amazing Barbers a little better as we followed them for a year. They both finish on a big note so get into those stories. I know they enjoyed the exercise themselves and they were absolutely thrilled to be with us. Fear not! it will not be the last time we see and hear from them I can assure you. There are some spoilers hidden the pages of this issue regarding some great things coming your way next year from BarberShop and the Mocha Group so keep readin’and get ready people!

Welcome back to the floor our Sydney and Melbourne brothers and sisters we missed you and our thoughts were never far from you all. We check in with a shop from each of these fine cities this issue to say hi.

Let’s unpack some early presents, Santa has a few treats for you.

I love it when I approach a Barber Shop and ask them to do a feature with me and get blown off because they are too busy. I research my targets before I strike because when dig a little… you find GOLD. I don’t take it personally; I get them the following issue or one after that and it’s always worth the wait. This time it’s no different with The Ugly Men’s Association from Perth, you will agree…great barber story.

Thank you, Rockit in Melbourne and Lyle & Tate in Sydney, for taking time with me after just coming back, when we celebrate our barber family in Australia, we become a closer and stronger family. We come in all different shapes and sizes and ‘Kitty no judge!’, we check out a 2-chair outfit and shine a light on these up and up and comers… By Jaymes, little shop BIG AMBITION!

Got ya’ passports? I’m taking you around the world again…. Spain: Let’s check out the winners of The Spanish Hairdressing Awards – ‘Men’s.’ Two brothers, they both work on the same model at the same time! Mad right? Not their first jog around the block or award, insane talent…

Hurry up back on the plane were going to the UK and then Canada. Thinking that you’re seeing a lot more hairdressing techniques and skills creeping into Barbering? We’ll here are two artists at the forefront of this new wave sweeping around our planet barber.

James Beaumont and Matty Conrad, both double traded and both at the cutting edge of seeing these two creative arts collide!! Hairdressing and Barbering!! BOOM!!

It’s the future… and I know most of you are already on top of it, a lot of you, all over it, I see it in your work and on your socials EMERGENCY EMERGENCY back to your seats and get your belts on! One of these guys predicts PERMING! breath normally. Seriously, these two features are both awe inspiring, great talent and super cool guys.

A lot of Barbers I meet and interview, a lot, started their hair journey at 14, you know cutting mates hair and stuff…not Lilly, she’s 8 YEARS OLD and she’s awesome!! She is the real deal and a 3rd generation barber to boot. Check out her story and her Dad Salvatore and see how our craft saved him and enabled him to pass on this amazing craft to his daughter who is totally invested in it.

Our AMBA’s… Congratulations to the entrants, finalists and ultimate winners of the inaugural Australian Modern Barber Awards 2021!! It was an honour to be on the judging panel alongside some of the biggest names in our industry, Sofie StayGold, Leen & Bertus, Danny Amorim, Tim Shaw, Queen of the South Patti Plymire, Jürgen Niederl, Nieves Almaraz and the amazing Collette Saunders. WOW, tough gig! It seriously was a treat to see such a high level of submissions in all categories. Photographic… off tap!! Business and Education categories were epic also and showed us judges a snapshot in time if you will, of the inner workings of our industry and I have to say, it looks good!! Thank to our Business panel, Faye Murry, Julie Piantadosi, Phillip Fernandez, Louise May, Chrissy Algar, Donna Sillett, Anna O’Gorman, Sarah Garner and Alexandra Bilisi.

This is Issue 10:4

Enjoy!! Rex A.C. Silver

Editor – Barbershop Magazine

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