Christchurch Barber embarks on NZ tour with US Celebrity

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Date: Friday 9th 2016

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Local Barber raises the bar in barbering, embarking on NZ tour with International Celebrity Barber

Highly acclaimed Hair Artist and Barber, 30-year old Matt Brown (My Fathers Barber) from Christchurch is set to embark on a week long tour with US celebrity barber and educator Darrin Lyons (D L Master Barber).

Kicking off the tour in Wellington on Sunday 11th September, the two barbers join forces with respected hairdressers in a brand new event entitled HAIRt with an aim to connect hair to heart and inspire hundreds of hair industry professionals in their craft.

Mr Brown’s personal aim is to ‘raise the bar’ in barbering, artistry and service in New Zealand. In contact with Mr Lyons over Instagram, the talented barber invited him to New Zealand to collaborate in ‘The Barbershop Talk Tour’ to which he accepted. The duo will tour Auckland, Tauranga, Dunedin, Queenstown and Christchurch demonstrating and sharing what they believe to be ‘real barbershop talk’.

‘The barber chair to me is a metaphor for one of the few remaining safe and acceptable places for men to talk and be real. It is an honour to serve men as barbers as our jobs are so much more than hair! You become a friend, counsellor and advocate to men who sometimes have no one else to talk and unload to. NZ has such high statistics of violence so I believe that just encouraging a man to talk is the start of changing the conversation. Barbers can inspire people daily. ” Mr Brown says.

Mr Brown’s social media following exploded under his alias @myfathersbarber after a portrait of Tupac he cut into a head was shared by the Tupac official Facebook page in America. Hundreds of thousands of likes, shares and comments later resulted in many requests from all over the world for Matt to teach his craft. Having now run successful sold out tutorials all over New Zealand and Australia; it was only a matter of time before he invited one of the US best, to collaborate with.

Ironically LA based Darrin Lyons, was also Tupac Shakur’s personal barber in the early nineties and is the only Barber alive to cut both Shakur and the late Notorious B.I.G. His client list includes stars like P Diddy and R Kelly.

Matt’s story is also one of inspiration and overcoming, as a young Polynesian boy who grew up in a home of severe domestic violence, alcoholism and sexual abuse, he didn’t believe his life would amount to much and after failed suicide attempts he left home at 15 to find a way to change his life. The talented young barber started cutting from a shed in Aranui, Christchurch in 2012

“If you told that depressed kid back then that I would one day be a position to travel and inspired others through barbering, I would never have believed you, but yet here we are.” He says with a smile.

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To view more of Matt’s work:

Facebook/ www.facebook.com/myfathersbarbers

Instagram/- @myfathersbarber

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