September 17, 2025 • 15 mins
Hayley & Max chat about the backyard barbers of Adelaide.. A new trend where teens from all over SA are starting their hairdressing careers early! Setting up shops in their back sheds to cut all their mate's hair.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here more mixed one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart
app something's.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Happening in Adelaide that I bet if you don't have
teenage kids, you probably don't even know what's happening. But
it's happening in the underground world. And we're talking kid barbers.
So kids these days around the age of twelve to
fifteen are starting to cut hair and have their own
like I'm a.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Barber, come to my house after school and cut your hair.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So it actually happened recently with a school down south.
They're all on like a basketball camp up in the hills,
and the parents ended up getting an email in the
afternoon going just letting you know that one of our
kids has set up his own little barber shop in
the gym and about fifty boys have gone had their
haircut by him when they weren't meant to.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Varying standards of haircut.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So my son Austin is thirteen, and they're very protective
over how they get their haircut and things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You know, you care about what you look like at
that age.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And this week we've been having this argument about him
going to his best mate's house after school to get
his best mate to cut his hair, who's fourteen.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Has he been there before.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
He's never had his haircut by him before. And I've
seen the haircuts as this kid does, and it's awful,
Like they're awful. And I said to him, my husband,
I sat him down the other night because he's like,
I'll go over there after school and I'll get my haircut.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
He'll do it how I want it.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And I'm like, if you go to his house, you
will come back and I will pick you up and
you will look like a giant doodle your hair because
he wants it shaved on the side and long on
the top.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I'm like, if you do that, you will we
will laugh.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You'll be a cone head.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You will be a cone head. And you have a grandpa.
My dad is a hairdresser and has been for fifty years.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And he will be so angry at you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Why don't we just go to the barber, which we're
going tonight to the barber at six forty five?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Why does he want to see his mate instead of
the bark.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Because he thinks his mate knows what he's doing, and
his mate's going to do what he wants. But he
doesn't realize this mate is fourteen and has absolutely no
idea about how.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
To cut hair.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And this is such household because your dad has been
a hairdresser for seven hundred and eighty years.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's like they don't understand there is a skill that
comes with being a haircutter.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But all these kids these days, max are cutting each
other's hair.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Do they charge their mates? Does it cost their mates money?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Some of them charge, This is the funny thing.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Some of them charge.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Some of them even have capes that you.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So you put the whole little stool.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And a cape, and they think they're a barber.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You pull up and they offer you something from mum
and Dad's fridge in orange trees while you're sitting.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
There, crack opener.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Really, I'm going to the barber. It's a great experience.
I like going here. They do offer me a water
a Coca beer, and I.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Get it's cheaper like my mate, My son's mate's not
going to charge him. That's a free haircut, but a
free terrible haircut. Some of them charged twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Do you, as a mother have a bit in your
mind where you go. You know what, maybe I let
him get one terrible haircut to learn the lesson forever.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So that's what we said this week.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You go, sure, go to his house, get your haircut,
and you will look like what I said, you look
like a doodle, a walking doodle.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Do it because we.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Kind of wanted him to do it so then he
would realize, Okay, I actually have to go to a
skill person.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What if this kid's a prodigy. What if he's the
next hair machine?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I mean, you can't be at that age. You can't
be because you're not. You haven't learned how to do it.
He hasn't got Australian selling of the years he's doing
his garage.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I just remember the hair machine. Now, that's what I
can think of.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So we I'd love to hear from you if you
are one of these parents that I've got one of
these stories a kid hairdresser.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
What do you think about?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Is your son doing the same thing? They're all barbers,
Like great, your little entrepreneur. You don't really know what
you're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Or have you got a horror story of going to
see one of these kid barbers?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, because an actual barber will have to fix the problem.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
In the end.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Anyway cuts you the same amount of money.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
School parents are getting emails from teachers going just letting
you know that this kid in your nine is to
set up a barber shop in the gym fifty people's hair.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
It's happening.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
My thirteen year old wants to go to his mate
instead of a barber.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Tell us what you've told your thirteen year old would
likely he'd come out looking.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Like a Doodleep.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, because the new trend for thirteen fourteen year olds
is they cut it really short on the site, but
leave it along on the top.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Like an actual And do you really want to look
like a doodle? Who does? Who does?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Third?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
One or two?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Three?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Patricia in blake View, we are talking kid barber's backyard barbers.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Your son is one. Tell us about it.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
He is.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
He's sixteen. He's been doing it for a couple of years.
He was always interested in cutting hair. He used to
cut his own, much to my mortification. But he's got
quite a list of kids. They wander home with him
from school, he cuts their hair, and then their parents
pick him up.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
How does he charge his friends?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
He does?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He does?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
He used to do it for free, and then he
was doing sort of birth cut for free and now
he charges per.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Cut, Patricia. Does he have the gear? Does he have
the buzzers and the procession?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
And he does, but I will say that it's it's
a good old Kmart kid.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Nothing fancy, Yeah, but good clippers and good like gear
like scissors can be thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah. Has he ever butgered anyone's hair, Not that I
know of.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
I've seen them kind of come and go and they
look okay, So do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's going to go and get an apprenticeship somewhere.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
He's been thinking about it. Yeah, he's got a few
things that he'd like to do career wise, but he
has considered it. He actually got offered to shadow a barber,
so it may go somewhere.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Who knows.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
He's learned everything he knows off YouTube. Yeah, but he's
he's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
See if my dad heard that as a hairdresser, he've
learned everything you know off YouTube. It kind of takes
away from the three for your apprenticeship that you do
as a hairdresser.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Does There's a lot to learn to do proper hairdressing.
It's not like I learned to tie tie on you Tube.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
If someone said that, yeah, great, it's a profession.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We've got a voice note from someone actually a father, Chris.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Chris.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Hey, Haley, it's Chris here. Look, I totally understand where
you're coming from in terms of their haircuts. My sixteen
year old only will get his haircut.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
From his mates now.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
So a few years ago, we had a great barber
he would go and see every month, would do a
really good job, but he just was never happy with it.
But now he goes to his mates. They make an
afternoon of it. It's no cheaper, so he still pays
his mate. But I feel like, yeah, it doesn't come
out as good as what a barber would do. So
I don't understand it, but it just seems to be
(06:51):
a thing that they do.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
They just hang out with your mates, but go and
hang out with your mates at the actual barber.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I think they just trust their mates over someone professional.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
We're talking about this new trend that's sweeping across Adelaide
schools that I'm part of, and it's kid barbers.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's like thirteen fourteen year old kids that are like, oh,
got your hair? They set up mini studios or creative.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Salons in their gyms or whatever, and they're charging their mates.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Sounds ridiculous to me. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Jaden in Burton, No, he's going to prove us wrong.
He's a fifteen year old and he is doing this himself. Jadeen,
you're cutting the hair, mate, Yeah, tell us about it?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Mate.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Well, I have like a pretty big family, lots of
boys in my family's three brothers. I was like my
brother one day and I asked you if I a
cuddy hair? First was like skeptical, but then I cut it,
and like pretty much ever since that day, I've been
cutting hair.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So when you say you're cutting hair, are you just
using clippers? Like you're not actually using proper hairdressing scissors?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Are you none?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Have everything? Scissors, clippers, simmers, everything?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
How did you learn how to do this?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
When I found my passion in it, I like learned
through YouTube, TikTok like this all that. So I basically
call myself.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Do you charge your friends?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
At the moment I'm sitting twenty dollars a cut?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Jayden? Do you ever mess up any of your friend's haircuts?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Oh? No?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
No, did you at the start up a few haircuts?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah? The star Jenny.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So do you think, Jayden, you're going to go on
and do an apprenticeship or something.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, that's the plan soon I'm hoping for like star apprenticeship. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Right, Where do you get your haircut, Jaiden? Do you
go to a barber or do you have a friend
that cuts your hair? I go to a ra How
many people do you see, Jaden? How many people are
on your little roster that come and say so on?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I have like an app you can buchery.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
What you're like a little entrepreneur.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I have a total plus claim.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Fifty And this is just in the backyard at home.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, like this is my little set.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
What happens to all the hair? Jaiden?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And then either mom or Dad vacuum it or if
some feeling like I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I got to say, Jaden, as the daughter of a hairdresser,
my dad was a hairdresser for fifty years. He went
around the world cutting hair. Obviously, what you're doing your
friends are loving. But you need to upskill. You need
to go to a hairsl and go mate, give me
an apprenticeship.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I'm Keen I'm passionate. I'm good at this.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, of course, yeah you do.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
What's one for you? Thank you? This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
We're getting so many calls on this. Fiona and Williston, Hello,
what's your story?
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Good morning. My nephew two weeks ago received the request
via Snapchat to cut his mate's hair at school, So
he took his slippers to school and perform the haircut.
When this child's mother got home, his mother was not impressed,
and my nephew ended up with a two weeks two
(09:35):
day suspension from school because no, it was it was
about consent. The friend said that he hadn't consented to
having his haircut. Exactly what happens with snapchat. It disappears,
and so did the photo of his happy face after
the haircut.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Oh no, this is going to happen though.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
When your mate cuts your hair, chances are it's going
to be terrible.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
Yeah, he was. He was happy to dump his mate
in it, just so that he didn't get in trouble
with Is not that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
A crazy out there?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Michael Michael in hein, Marsh Michael, what's your opinion on this?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
We've got kid barbers, backyard barbers.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Here, you guys I'm actually all four.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It like we are.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Constantly complaining that the younger generation are sitting on their
bums being lady, and now they're getting up there trying
to start businesses, trying to earn some money in this economy, which,
as we all know, is incredibly harsh. And what we're
going to tell them, No, we're going to tell them
that they can't do it. Well, it just seems a
bit hipocrical for us to be, you know, saying no,
(10:45):
as far as I'm concerned, I won if the prices
are cheap, go for it, you know what I mean.
Because you've got to learn somewhere, you've got to start somewhere,
and in this field, and in the field of all apprenticeships,
it's competitive. So if you can go in and be like, hey,
I've got experience, I've done this, I've earned money, then boom,
(11:06):
I'm more likely to get the job.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The argument in reverse would be that you're saying the
kids are doing the right thing and they're earning money. Well,
the people that did four years of training did the
right thing and now they're trying to earn actual money,
but they're losing their business.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Well, that's all well.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And good in't all.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
But I'm the kind of guy I literally just shaved
my hagd completely bold, So spending fifty bucks on a haircut,
it's a bit ridiculous to me, Josh, try.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Being a woman, Try getting a hit as.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Freaking copletely different story. You ladies get judged so much
harsh on it. I'm not even gonna do approach that one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Do you know what, Michael, stick around because we are
going to get Robbie. You know Robbie from Ada. Boy's
got a lot of talents around Adelaiser. He's a very
excellent barber, but also he's on the block at the moment.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I want to get him on and get his.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Opinion on this as a professional who is trained.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Ye, we'll do that next Michael. In the meantime, thank
you for coming on being so passionate.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We're with us. We appreciate your call, and we're going
to give you a phone.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We're going to give you the A five phone value
two hundred and fifty nine bucks for your time.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Oh wicked, that's awesome. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We have been talking about kids that have become so
called barbers.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
At the moment they're.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Tweens that think that they can cut hair.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They've got no experience, but they're doing it, and they're charging
their friends.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
The barber boys. They're doing it in their backyards.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, like fifteen year olds like Jaden who you just
heard from in Burton, who's got clients. They come around,
they pay h twenty bucks and all of his mates
come and see him in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But we thought, let's chat to someone who is a
very well known and successful barber in Adelaide.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Also you know him from the block. Yeah, Rob Thin
Matt on the block. We've got Robbie on the phone
from Adam Boy.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Hey Robbie, good morning guys.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
How are we going?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Are you feeling about this chat as a barber yourself?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (12:52):
Yeah, look, I'm kind of I kind of frown upon it,
to be honest, Like, like, firstly, I'll take my hat
off to these kids, Like they're creating like really cool
social media accounts and like this barber identity, and they've
got this like amazing drive and hustle, which is which
is awesome to see in young kids.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Like I take my hat off to them for that.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
Yeah, So I'm not taking away anything from them, but Also,
you need to hold a certificate in barbering or hairdressing in.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
South Australia to cut hair, just like you do as.
Speaker 11 (13:20):
A plumber, be you know, a plumber or electrician.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What happens if you don't like is there like a
police force that comes and says you can't do this
or something like you shut down?
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Yeah, the hair police come and take you. It is
something we need to Uh. The industry in South Australia
is working on very hard because you know we call
them like backyard barber. There's a lot of people that
aren't qualified in the industry where literally Max, you could
come down to add a boy and go hey Rob,
I like being a barber and I go cool man,
bring in four or five mates and I will teach
(13:51):
you how to cut hair after hours and then two
saturdays time you're in my salon and charging fifty bucks
a haircut. Yeah, you know when you know my stuff,
you know, do four year apprenticeships and tens of thousands
of dollars on education and you're getting more money than them. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So what do you say that, because as am a teenager, like,
what do you want to say to moms like me
who have teenage boys that are like, oh yeah, I'll
just go and get my mate to cut my hair.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
What do you want to say to those moms?
Speaker 11 (14:16):
You know, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place,
because you know, you just want your kid to be yapping.
And if you're supporting his mate, that's great, and I
get that, and but also, you know, leave it to
the guys that are qualified.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Unless you want all of.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
These kids to come around and do your plumbing electrical
work as well.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You wouldn't go around to a backyard mechanic was a
fifteen year old. Well, well, Robbie the thing with so
we spoke to Jaden before from Bertan.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
He's a fifteen year old and his.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Mates come and do that and it costs like like
twenty bucks to do it.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And he said, yeah, yeah, no, I do. I do
want to do the study.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I do want to get there eventually when I'm like fifteen,
I'm still in school at the moment.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Do you what do you say to someone like that?
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Well, absolutely, and it is there's some poor career paths
going into the hairdressing at the moment, and there's something
that I'm very proud of and something that we're working
on with the South Australian Hair and Beauty Association.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
At the moment is.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
How do we get these kids into a tafe or
an irto. So you know, I'm very proud to announce it.
I will be opening my own barber college in this
new year actually, so yeah, so and you know this
is an issue we've got and I'm yeah, I'll be
I'll be opening the Australian Barber College, which will be
Adelaide based in the new year. So we can give
(15:28):
people that avenue to do exactly what these kids want
to do, but get qualified to do it. So we
can offer a certificate three in barbering or headdressing. We
could do school based apprenticeships. We can help with vet
and sace and you know, even if the kids don't
know what they want to do, we can get them
in to do you know, some sal on assystem and stuff.
So there's plenty of pathways.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You're the man, Robbie. Yeah, it's a beautiful industry.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
If you do it, probably you're a legend. Thanks so
much for your time, known for brilliant barbering. But also
you're got to watch the block the room reveals this Sunday,
seven pm, Channel nine to nine. Now that's where you
will see Robbie and Matt on the block. Thank you
your time mates, Thanks guys,
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Happening in Adelaide that I bet if you don't have
teenage kids, you probably don't even know what's happening. But
it's happening in the underground world. And we're talking kid barbers.
So kids these days around the age of twelve to
fifteen are starting to cut hair and have their own
like I'm a.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Barber, come to my house after school and cut your hair.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So it actually happened recently with a school down south.
They're all on like a basketball camp up in the hills,
and the parents ended up getting an email in the
afternoon going just letting you know that one of our
kids has set up his own little barber shop in
the gym and about fifty boys have gone had their
haircut by him when they weren't meant to.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Varying standards of haircut.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So my son Austin is thirteen, and they're very protective
over how they get their haircut and things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You know, you care about what you look like at
that age.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And this week we've been having this argument about him
going to his best mate's house after school to get
his best mate to cut his hair, who's fourteen.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Has he been there before.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
He's never had his haircut by him before. And I've
seen the haircuts as this kid does, and it's awful,
Like they're awful. And I said to him, my husband,
I sat him down the other night because he's like,
I'll go over there after school and I'll get my haircut.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
He'll do it how I want it.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And I'm like, if you go to his house, you
will come back and I will pick you up and
you will look like a giant doodle your hair because
he wants it shaved on the side and long on
the top.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I'm like, if you do that, you will we
will laugh.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You'll be a cone head.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You will be a cone head. And you have a grandpa.
My dad is a hairdresser and has been for fifty years.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And he will be so angry at you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Why don't we just go to the barber, which we're
going tonight to the barber at six forty five?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Why does he want to see his mate instead of
the bark.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Because he thinks his mate knows what he's doing, and
his mate's going to do what he wants. But he
doesn't realize this mate is fourteen and has absolutely no
idea about how.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
To cut hair.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And this is such household because your dad has been
a hairdresser for seven hundred and eighty years.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's like they don't understand there is a skill that
comes with being a haircutter.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But all these kids these days, max are cutting each
other's hair.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Do they charge their mates? Does it cost their mates money?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Some of them charge, This is the funny thing.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Some of them charge.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Some of them even have capes that you.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So you put the whole little stool.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And a cape, and they think they're a barber.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You pull up and they offer you something from mum
and Dad's fridge in orange trees while you're sitting.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
There, crack opener.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Really, I'm going to the barber. It's a great experience.
I like going here. They do offer me a water
a Coca beer, and I.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Get it's cheaper like my mate, My son's mate's not
going to charge him. That's a free haircut, but a
free terrible haircut. Some of them charged twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Do you, as a mother have a bit in your
mind where you go. You know what, maybe I let
him get one terrible haircut to learn the lesson forever.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So that's what we said this week.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You go, sure, go to his house, get your haircut,
and you will look like what I said, you look
like a doodle, a walking doodle.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Do it because we.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Kind of wanted him to do it so then he
would realize, Okay, I actually have to go to a
skill person.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What if this kid's a prodigy. What if he's the
next hair machine?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I mean, you can't be at that age. You can't
be because you're not. You haven't learned how to do it.
He hasn't got Australian selling of the years he's doing
his garage.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I just remember the hair machine. Now, that's what I
can think of.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So we I'd love to hear from you if you
are one of these parents that I've got one of
these stories a kid hairdresser.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
What do you think about?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Is your son doing the same thing? They're all barbers,
Like great, your little entrepreneur. You don't really know what
you're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Or have you got a horror story of going to
see one of these kid barbers?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, because an actual barber will have to fix the problem.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
In the end.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Anyway cuts you the same amount of money.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
School parents are getting emails from teachers going just letting
you know that this kid in your nine is to
set up a barber shop in the gym fifty people's hair.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
It's happening.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
My thirteen year old wants to go to his mate
instead of a barber.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Tell us what you've told your thirteen year old would
likely he'd come out looking.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Like a Doodleep.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, because the new trend for thirteen fourteen year olds
is they cut it really short on the site, but
leave it along on the top.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Like an actual And do you really want to look
like a doodle? Who does? Who does?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Third?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
One or two?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Three?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Patricia in blake View, we are talking kid barber's backyard barbers.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Your son is one. Tell us about it.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
He is.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
He's sixteen. He's been doing it for a couple of years.
He was always interested in cutting hair. He used to
cut his own, much to my mortification. But he's got
quite a list of kids. They wander home with him
from school, he cuts their hair, and then their parents
pick him up.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
How does he charge his friends?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
He does?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He does?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
He used to do it for free, and then he
was doing sort of birth cut for free and now
he charges per.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Cut, Patricia. Does he have the gear? Does he have
the buzzers and the procession?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
And he does, but I will say that it's it's
a good old Kmart kid.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Nothing fancy, Yeah, but good clippers and good like gear
like scissors can be thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah. Has he ever butgered anyone's hair, Not that I
know of.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
I've seen them kind of come and go and they
look okay, So do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's going to go and get an apprenticeship somewhere.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
He's been thinking about it. Yeah, he's got a few
things that he'd like to do career wise, but he
has considered it. He actually got offered to shadow a barber,
so it may go somewhere.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Who knows.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
He's learned everything he knows off YouTube. Yeah, but he's
he's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
See if my dad heard that as a hairdresser, he've
learned everything you know off YouTube. It kind of takes
away from the three for your apprenticeship that you do
as a hairdresser.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Does There's a lot to learn to do proper hairdressing.
It's not like I learned to tie tie on you Tube.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
If someone said that, yeah, great, it's a profession.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We've got a voice note from someone actually a father, Chris.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Chris.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Hey, Haley, it's Chris here. Look, I totally understand where
you're coming from in terms of their haircuts. My sixteen
year old only will get his haircut.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
From his mates now.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
So a few years ago, we had a great barber
he would go and see every month, would do a
really good job, but he just was never happy with it.
But now he goes to his mates. They make an
afternoon of it. It's no cheaper, so he still pays
his mate. But I feel like, yeah, it doesn't come
out as good as what a barber would do. So
I don't understand it, but it just seems to be
(06:51):
a thing that they do.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
They just hang out with your mates, but go and
hang out with your mates at the actual barber.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I think they just trust their mates over someone professional.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
We're talking about this new trend that's sweeping across Adelaide
schools that I'm part of, and it's kid barbers.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's like thirteen fourteen year old kids that are like, oh,
got your hair? They set up mini studios or creative.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Salons in their gyms or whatever, and they're charging their mates.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Sounds ridiculous to me. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Jaden in Burton, No, he's going to prove us wrong.
He's a fifteen year old and he is doing this himself. Jadeen,
you're cutting the hair, mate, Yeah, tell us about it?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Mate.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Well, I have like a pretty big family, lots of
boys in my family's three brothers. I was like my
brother one day and I asked you if I a
cuddy hair? First was like skeptical, but then I cut it,
and like pretty much ever since that day, I've been
cutting hair.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So when you say you're cutting hair, are you just
using clippers? Like you're not actually using proper hairdressing scissors?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Are you none?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Have everything? Scissors, clippers, simmers, everything?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
How did you learn how to do this?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
When I found my passion in it, I like learned
through YouTube, TikTok like this all that. So I basically
call myself.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Do you charge your friends?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
At the moment I'm sitting twenty dollars a cut?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Jayden? Do you ever mess up any of your friend's haircuts?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Oh? No?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
No, did you at the start up a few haircuts?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah? The star Jenny.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So do you think, Jayden, you're going to go on
and do an apprenticeship or something.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, that's the plan soon I'm hoping for like star apprenticeship. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Right, Where do you get your haircut, Jaiden? Do you
go to a barber or do you have a friend
that cuts your hair? I go to a ra How
many people do you see, Jaden? How many people are
on your little roster that come and say so on?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I have like an app you can buchery.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
What you're like a little entrepreneur.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I have a total plus claim.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Fifty And this is just in the backyard at home.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, like this is my little set.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
What happens to all the hair? Jaiden?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And then either mom or Dad vacuum it or if
some feeling like I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I got to say, Jaden, as the daughter of a hairdresser,
my dad was a hairdresser for fifty years. He went
around the world cutting hair. Obviously, what you're doing your
friends are loving. But you need to upskill. You need
to go to a hairsl and go mate, give me
an apprenticeship.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I'm Keen I'm passionate. I'm good at this.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, of course, yeah you do.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
What's one for you? Thank you? This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
We're getting so many calls on this. Fiona and Williston, Hello,
what's your story?
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Good morning. My nephew two weeks ago received the request
via Snapchat to cut his mate's hair at school, So
he took his slippers to school and perform the haircut.
When this child's mother got home, his mother was not impressed,
and my nephew ended up with a two weeks two
(09:35):
day suspension from school because no, it was it was
about consent. The friend said that he hadn't consented to
having his haircut. Exactly what happens with snapchat. It disappears,
and so did the photo of his happy face after
the haircut.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Oh no, this is going to happen though.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
When your mate cuts your hair, chances are it's going
to be terrible.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
Yeah, he was. He was happy to dump his mate
in it, just so that he didn't get in trouble
with Is not that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
A crazy out there?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Michael Michael in hein, Marsh Michael, what's your opinion on this?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
We've got kid barbers, backyard barbers.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Here, you guys I'm actually all four.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It like we are.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Constantly complaining that the younger generation are sitting on their
bums being lady, and now they're getting up there trying
to start businesses, trying to earn some money in this economy, which,
as we all know, is incredibly harsh. And what we're
going to tell them, No, we're going to tell them
that they can't do it. Well, it just seems a
bit hipocrical for us to be, you know, saying no,
(10:45):
as far as I'm concerned, I won if the prices
are cheap, go for it, you know what I mean.
Because you've got to learn somewhere, you've got to start somewhere,
and in this field, and in the field of all apprenticeships,
it's competitive. So if you can go in and be like, hey,
I've got experience, I've done this, I've earned money, then boom,
(11:06):
I'm more likely to get the job.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The argument in reverse would be that you're saying the
kids are doing the right thing and they're earning money. Well,
the people that did four years of training did the
right thing and now they're trying to earn actual money,
but they're losing their business.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Well, that's all well.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And good in't all.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
But I'm the kind of guy I literally just shaved
my hagd completely bold, So spending fifty bucks on a haircut,
it's a bit ridiculous to me, Josh, try.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Being a woman, Try getting a hit as.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Freaking copletely different story. You ladies get judged so much
harsh on it. I'm not even gonna do approach that one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Do you know what, Michael, stick around because we are
going to get Robbie. You know Robbie from Ada. Boy's
got a lot of talents around Adelaiser. He's a very
excellent barber, but also he's on the block at the moment.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I want to get him on and get his.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Opinion on this as a professional who is trained.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Ye, we'll do that next Michael. In the meantime, thank
you for coming on being so passionate.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We're with us. We appreciate your call, and we're going
to give you a phone.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We're going to give you the A five phone value
two hundred and fifty nine bucks for your time.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Oh wicked, that's awesome. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We have been talking about kids that have become so
called barbers.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
At the moment they're.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Tweens that think that they can cut hair.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They've got no experience, but they're doing it, and they're charging
their friends.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
The barber boys. They're doing it in their backyards.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, like fifteen year olds like Jaden who you just
heard from in Burton, who's got clients. They come around,
they pay h twenty bucks and all of his mates
come and see him in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But we thought, let's chat to someone who is a
very well known and successful barber in Adelaide.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Also you know him from the block. Yeah, Rob Thin
Matt on the block. We've got Robbie on the phone
from Adam Boy.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Hey Robbie, good morning guys.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
How are we going?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Are you feeling about this chat as a barber yourself?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (12:52):
Yeah, look, I'm kind of I kind of frown upon it,
to be honest, Like, like, firstly, I'll take my hat
off to these kids, Like they're creating like really cool
social media accounts and like this barber identity, and they've
got this like amazing drive and hustle, which is which
is awesome to see in young kids.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Like I take my hat off to them for that.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
Yeah, So I'm not taking away anything from them, but Also,
you need to hold a certificate in barbering or hairdressing in.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
South Australia to cut hair, just like you do as.
Speaker 11 (13:20):
A plumber, be you know, a plumber or electrician.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What happens if you don't like is there like a
police force that comes and says you can't do this
or something like you shut down?
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Yeah, the hair police come and take you. It is
something we need to Uh. The industry in South Australia
is working on very hard because you know we call
them like backyard barber. There's a lot of people that
aren't qualified in the industry where literally Max, you could
come down to add a boy and go hey Rob,
I like being a barber and I go cool man,
bring in four or five mates and I will teach
(13:51):
you how to cut hair after hours and then two
saturdays time you're in my salon and charging fifty bucks
a haircut. Yeah, you know when you know my stuff,
you know, do four year apprenticeships and tens of thousands
of dollars on education and you're getting more money than them. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So what do you say that, because as am a teenager, like,
what do you want to say to moms like me
who have teenage boys that are like, oh yeah, I'll
just go and get my mate to cut my hair.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
What do you want to say to those moms?
Speaker 11 (14:16):
You know, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place,
because you know, you just want your kid to be yapping.
And if you're supporting his mate, that's great, and I
get that, and but also, you know, leave it to
the guys that are qualified.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Unless you want all of.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
These kids to come around and do your plumbing electrical
work as well.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You wouldn't go around to a backyard mechanic was a
fifteen year old. Well, well, Robbie the thing with so
we spoke to Jaden before from Bertan.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
He's a fifteen year old and his.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Mates come and do that and it costs like like
twenty bucks to do it.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And he said, yeah, yeah, no, I do. I do
want to do the study.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I do want to get there eventually when I'm like fifteen,
I'm still in school at the moment.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Do you what do you say to someone like that?
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Well, absolutely, and it is there's some poor career paths
going into the hairdressing at the moment, and there's something
that I'm very proud of and something that we're working
on with the South Australian Hair and Beauty Association.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
At the moment is.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
How do we get these kids into a tafe or
an irto. So you know, I'm very proud to announce it.
I will be opening my own barber college in this
new year actually, so yeah, so and you know this
is an issue we've got and I'm yeah, I'll be
I'll be opening the Australian Barber College, which will be
Adelaide based in the new year. So we can give
(15:28):
people that avenue to do exactly what these kids want
to do, but get qualified to do it. So we
can offer a certificate three in barbering or headdressing. We
could do school based apprenticeships. We can help with vet
and sace and you know, even if the kids don't
know what they want to do, we can get them
in to do you know, some sal on assystem and stuff.
So there's plenty of pathways.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You're the man, Robbie. Yeah, it's a beautiful industry.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
If you do it, probably you're a legend. Thanks so
much for your time, known for brilliant barbering. But also
you're got to watch the block the room reveals this Sunday,
seven pm, Channel nine to nine. Now that's where you
will see Robbie and Matt on the block. Thank you
your time mates, Thanks guys,
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