You're listening to the Shelllucks Podcast, your guide to a more stylish life.

Hello and welcome to the Shelllucks Podcast with me,

Reacartre. I am joined today by Shellows' very own Cherry Andrews lifestyle editor

and the chief hairress of black hair herself

award-winning hairstylist best-selling author Baker mother friend Charlotte

Menza. Welcome ladies. Hello. Hi.

Charlotte, I feel like we need to start with you.

You've got over 20 years of experience.

As I said, you have got your own line, which is doing phenomenally well.

You've got the hair lounge in Portobello,

you've got a book, you make cakes,

also which I feel like is award winning at this point.

Tell us, let's start on the beginning.

Why hair?

Do you know what? I never ever thought I was going to be a

hairdresser. Growing up, I, you know, lived in a crowd with my grandparents so I was born in London I left the age of three months

to live with my grandparents mainly because they had just come into, they moved to the UK in 1962 and I was the sixth child they had in 1970 and it was just very difficult to like have this you know the space

also they both worked around a clock and at the time they were advised to either send me off to foster parents or...

They were advised to do that?

Some friends were sending their kids off to out of London.

So basically they would, you know, send the kids off for like maybe a month and then at the

end of the month they and my mom was like very close to her own mother so she had obviously spoken to my grandma and the grandma said just bring her back to a crowd.

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