At many high schools including Brophy, a new trend of student barbers is emerging. Whether
Cutting hair in locker rooms, classrooms, or even parking lots, these young barbers are turning a side hustle into a thriving business while helping their classmates look their best.
Students such as Jared Garcia ’26 and Will Osborne ’27 both have turned their hobbies into businesses, but they got started for different reasons. Garcia or “jaredcutz”, first got started cutting when his brother desperately needed a haircut but had lost faith in all other barbers after they kept messing him up. According to Garcia, it was easy: “I just pulled up a YouTube video and started following the steps.”
Meanwhile, Osborne, or OsborneFadezz, was inspired by seeing other social media barbers his age cutting on platforms such as TikTok or Instagram.
These two barbers both get a lot of traction through word of mouth. Garcia said, “I started cutting my friend group’s hair freshman and sophomore year, and they just started telling people.” This shows just how quickly word spread through a small community such as Brophy.
Osborne also added that he gets a lot of traction from his social media account, saying, “At school, I find clients through marketing on the OsborneFadezz account.” He uses a few of his friends as social media managers to help pump out more content and drive more customers to his services.
Both Osborne and Garcia had advice for new barbers who wanted to start cutting hair. Garcia mentioned that he got some backlash after starting out, saying, “At the beginning, there were a lot of people who—it’s not even just hate—they just find it funny. You have to be mentally strong.”
Osborne had some advice on how to start cutting, saying, “Just watch the TikTok tutorials and invest in good clippers like I did.”
Overall, these students starting businesses at Brophy show how innovative and driven students are nowadays. They do not wait for opportunities; they create them themselves. This not only helps Broph students look fresh or “realize their true looks-maxxing possibilities,” as Osborne puts it, but also gives other students examples of how to turn their businesses into realities.
