Let’s clear one thing up: I’m a haircutting specialist, not a “short hair specialist.” I just get a lot of guys and a lot of short cuts — mostly refugees from the barbershop, where they got handed the same hard part and high-and-tight whether they asked for it or not. Turns out people want a haircut that fits their actual head. Who knew.
I came up cutting hair and eventually opened my own shop — Brick & Mortar, seven chairs in Portland. I ran it exactly long enough to learn that owning a business isn’t for me. Some people are wired to sign the lease. I’m wired to hold the shears.
Somewhere in there I worked with Baxter of California and taught haircutting on stages from the States to Australia — a very long flight to tell professionals to slow down and listen. Then came Nashville: years behind the chair at Local Honey in East Nashville, building a name one cut at a time.
Since 2021 I’ve taught on my own terms — no brand whispering in my ear about which product to plug. The best hair education doesn’t end in a sales pitch. Apparently that’s a hot take.
Now the family and I are home in Oregon, at Moss Hair Studio in Eugene — doing the one trick most of the industry forgot: listening, then cutting.
