Charles Lomu

I've got a simple set up with just two stations and I've got one station that I take after, look after myself and then next to me I have another station that I'm training my daughter in and my wife also shares that station as well so she does braiding as well and together we deliver a service that's more focused on the type of hair culture that we're into and that's urban style hair culture.

And it's quite simple.

And I just love the fact that it's in a home environment.

It just helps my children see that there are other ways that they can make a living and still have time for family.

You're known as Six Fades.

What does that mean?

Six Fades, yeah.

So when I first started barbering, before I actually took barbering on as a career, I actually did some music.

Recorded an album and I was signed to a record label and did some music and my title, my artist name was Six Pound, which comes from a story that's tied to my village back in Tonga.

What's the story?

Can you tell us?

Yeah, the story, it's my grandfather's village back in Tonga.

It's called Limatu'a in the island of Wawa'u.

And in that island, the story goes that they had this event that they were all preparing for, for a special noble that was coming by.

And the women of the village were preparing all the catering and the food.

And part of it was they made this order for these six pound tins of corned beef that were meant to be delivered to the docks the day before the event so that they could have it featured at the event.

And what happened apparently was that

the order came the day after the event.

And so the women of the village went down to the wharf and to express their disappointment, as the orders of six-pound tins of corned beef came off the boat and landed on the wharf, they grabbed the tins

and started just smashing the tins around the wharf.