LEXIE SHAY HAIR IS HAIR. SIMON THE BARBER PUT IN CUTTING HOURS – NOT TIKTOK VIEWS. LAURENS PROPHITIUS BEING GOOD AT CUTTING HAIR, DOESN’T MAKE YOU AN ENTREPRENEUR.
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BELIEF. HOPE. LOVE. THE REAL DRIVERS OF SUCCESS.
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CHARLES GRAY TIMING IS EVERYTHING.
INTERVIEW
From canal side to global stage: Charles Gray’s hair revolution How a Menspire creative director broke free to build his own empire, smashing the boundaries between men’s and women’s hair along the way.
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@charlesgrayofficial @hairinmotioneducation
Timing is everything
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SCHOREM
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Hair: Robert-Jan Rietveld (NL) Photography: Jelle Mollema @jelleinmyear Products: REUZEL @schorembarbier, @the_bloody_butcher
THE NETHERLANDS
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Hair: Robert-Jan Rietveld (NL) Photography: Jelle Mollema @jelleinmyear Products: REUZEL @schorembarbier, @the_bloody_butcher
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© Photography: Lilani Hale, @orangedmedia
How Lexie Shay is flipping the script on everything we think we know about cutting hair
@thelexieshay @vaultninetyone
INTERVIEW
“ Hair is is hair” “I’m actually not a ‘barber’.” Wait, what? Here we are, about to feature someone in a barber magazine, and that’s how she opens? But before you flip the page, hear Lexie Shay out. “I’m a hairdresser, but I think hair is hair, you know?” And there it is: “hair is hair” -three words that sum up everything wrong with how this industry thinks about itself. “We’ve spent decades drawing imaginary lines between ‘barber’ and ‘hairdresser,’ between ‘men’s cuts’ and ‘women’s styles,’ when really, we’re all just trying to make people look and feel amazing.” At 34, Lex runs Vault Ninety One in Cairns, Australia, and she’s living proof that the best stylists are the ones who refuse to stay in their lane. She’s worked with traditional English barbers, she’s a Danger Jones educator pushing color boundaries in men’s hair, and she’s currently on Australia’s Fame Team 2025. But ask her what she does for a living, and she’ll tell you she just cuts hair. All hair. Any hair. Because hair is hair. 45
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Haircon, Manchester, UK, June 2025
Photography ©: Mauro Carraro
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