Charles Lomu

I started cutting hair because my cousins used to cut hair at the back of my grandma's house.

And so I used to love sitting there.

and watching them cut hair.

And because they had migrated from Tonga to Australia, they were still living like they were in Tonga.

So they were cutting each other's hair in the backyard.

When my father was like, no, no, no.

Go get your hair cut from the barber shop.

So we'd go to the barber shop, but I'd go to my grandma's house to watch them cut hair.

And I was more fascinated with that.

And so they ended up letting me start to cut hair.

And I got the love for cutting hair then.

I was always cutting hair, cutting friends' hair, cutting family's hair.

I was cutting hair after work.

I'd come home and just cut hair for everyone and anyone that I knew.

But then in 2014, cutting a friend's hair, and he said to me, it's actually scriptural for me to pay you for your services.

It's the right thing to do.

He said, because you're a man that's a father.

And you're looking after a family.

And while you're out here cutting my hair, I'm taking time away from your family.

And it's also costing you electricity.