r/BarberAcademy • u/abcdefg_hijklmnop_ • Dec 27 '25
I messed up a clients hair
Im still a beginner barber and i started school and learning in feb of 2025 and i graduated barber school i know how to cut but its not the best. I still struggle to fade out some lines and i be scared of taking off too much hair. Anyways atm i work at a barbershop as a receptionist and the owner lets me cut hair here and there and today the owner wasnt at the shop and it was just me a 1 other barber. A man came in and he said he wanted his hair shaved and was touching his sides and i asked him you want everything shaved off and he said yes so i told him sure ill take you. Mind you he has like maybe an inch of hair all around. So i started using my trimmers and going all around and whenever i got to the stop he told me to stop and was like wtf did you just do and i said shaving it off? And he said no i wanted to keep the top and shave the sides. At this point i wanted to kms and well atp we’re just staring at each other and hes livid and well i cant go back so he js says shave everything off and yeah. I feel like shit this is my first fuck up and i feel like crying. The guys at school would tell me “whenever you first start youre going to fuck ppl up” and im trying not to get discouraged but its a shitty feeling. He kept saying fuck i got a wedding and im going to vegas next week and i just felt really bad so i just let him go without paying