This question comes up more often than you’d think—especially from clients under 35. It usually lands about halfway through a session. That’s when they stop thinking of it as a haircut and start realising something else is going on.
The tone shifts. The listening is sharper. The shape is intentional. It’s clear this isn’t some templated salon experience. And that’s when the thought kicks in:
“Oh shit, this guy’s the real deal.”
They start doing the maths.
“If I’m 28 and he’s in his mid-50s… what happens when he stops doing this?”
It’s a fair question. But the answer’s simple:
No, I’m not training an apprentice. There’s no understudy, no handoff in the works.
And here’s why.
This isn’t a salon. It’s a container.
I don’t run a team. There’s no junior cutter, no assistant learning in the wings. This is a private, deliberately structured one-person practice. Every detail—from the soundproofing to the session flow—is designed to support focused, uninterrupted work. That includes the absence of other people.
Dropping a trainee into that mix wouldn’t just dilute the experience. It would dismantle the container.
You can’t pass this on in two years.
People assume training someone means handing over techniques. But what I do isn’t a set of techniques—it’s an entire framework of observation, shape logic, client psychology, and feedback refinement. And I didn’t learn it in a classroom.
I stumbled onto how to cut hair well by sheer accident and frustration when I was 20. That moment led to a foundational realisation—one that became the framework for my entire career. And over time, I refined that approach through one-on-one client feedback. What worked. What didn’t. What lasted.
This applies across all hair types—but it’s especially obvious with curly hair and other challenging textures. When the shape is wrong, the whole thing collapses. When it’s right, people feel the difference immediately. That clarity has been a huge part of why the practice has drawn so many curl-focused and texture-struggling clients over the years.
And that clarity isn’t teachable in a weekend course. It’s not something you pick up through repetition alone. It lives in pattern recognition, restraint, and long-term attention.
But I’m not locking it away, either.
What I’m building now isn’t a method to franchise, and it’s not a course to package. It’s a form of fluency—for clients. A way to finally speak clearly and unapologetically about their own texture, shape, and preferences.
And eventually, when I’m ready to wind down the physical work, I’ll shift toward something else: a legacy lecture series. Not for hairdressers. Not to train apprentices. But to give clients—especially those who’ve never felt seen or served by traditional salons—a deeper understanding of why. Why the old systems failed them. Why their instincts were right. Why their hair was never the problem.
That will be the true handoff.
If this is what you’ve been looking for—use it while it’s here.
There’s no team. No plan for scale. No one coming up behind me.
Just one person, in one space, doing the work—until it’s time to stop.