Charles Lomu

Right.

And so the onlookers saw that the women of my grandfather's village were doing this and they became labelled the six pounders.

And so that was all my life growing up.

Whenever we have a wedding or we have a special occasion in our village, the tins of corned beef always come out.

and they do and they perform this uh smashing on the ground the ritual smashing of course so this is an act of anarchy and it's kind of a building it was a music musician at the time that's pretty cool yeah so i took i took on that title six pound to to to pay homage to my grandfather and then when i went into barbering i went with the name six fades but now i've changed it to lawnmower fates right it's a way of cutting the hair on on the guys you can't yeah it's a way of cutting the hair so that it graduates from a short length to a to a longer length but

We do it in an urban cultural way.

So it goes from like a skin fade from a razor length to like a longer length.

But it's pretty fancy.

Before, back in the day, you just asked for a blend.

Right.

Now there's like a taper fade, a skin fade, a low fade, a high fade, a burst fade.

Yeah, there's all different types of fades now.

Yeah, that's exactly right, yeah.

So you've got to, there's a lot more focus on understanding how your clipper works.

So you've got to understand the features on every single clip and what each feature, each setting can do.

And then that allows you to be able to control the actual fade in the haircut.

Yeah, I think with men, what I've found is that sometimes men don't want to admit that they care a lot about the way they look.

But they do.

But they do, you know, and I can see which one's more than the others.

Just by the way, every little step of the haircut, they're like checking over my work.