Ep. 240 • Traveling The World to Find My Hair Home w/ Kirill Hairfcker
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As a hair artist blurring the lines between hair and art, @kirill_hairfucker had a difficult journey finding a place he could be himself. He speaks about growing up in the Soviet Union and the struggles he had expressing himself and his art. He also shares how he found himself opening a salon here in Los Angeles and why he named himself 'Hairfucker'!
This Week's Topics:
• Growing up in Soviet Union and wanting a haircut he couldn't get
• Continuing to be stifled creatively in other people's salons; traveling to find his place
• Opening his own salon
• Travel to America during Covid to research opening a salon
• Why the name 'Hairfucker'
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| 0:00.0 | You need to understand that I was born in the Soviet Union. |
| 0:03.5 | So it's the country with a dictatorship and dictatorship goes not only for people's actions, but also to the people's mind. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, this is Ocel. This is J Cash, the Hair Tech. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Adrian Darrett. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, this is Jacob Khan. |
| 0:20.0 | This is the Platinum Giraff. And you're listening to the Hair Tech. This is Adrian Derrett. Hi, this is Jacob Khan. This is the Platinum Giraff. |
| 0:21.0 | And you're listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:29.3 | Big round of applause for Donovan for stepping in and doing the intro last week. |
| 0:34.7 | You did a great job, Donovan. |
| 0:37.1 | We all appreciate it very much. My little rug rats, |
| 0:40.4 | nine and ten years old, in school. The masks came off in school. And of course, within |
| 0:46.1 | with not even a week, a cold began to rage through the classroom. And I it and it was a solid 10 day cold that I |
| 0:57.8 | had. So my voice was not in a good enough shape to come to you guys with an intro. So thank you, |
| 1:04.1 | Donovan, for doing that. Also in news, in the city of Los Angeles, the mayor finally signed |
| 1:09.7 | the order to remove the mandate |
| 1:12.0 | requiring businesses to check for vaccines. So no longer in restaurants or salons, do the business |
| 1:20.1 | owners have to check their clients for vaccines? This was ridiculous at the time. Of course, |
| 1:26.1 | totally unenforceable. And in hindsight, now that the thing is no longer in force, we look back and see what the city actually did with this ridiculous order. |
| 1:38.3 | And it was a total joke. The LA Times reported that just six businesses, okay, the city of LA, there's like, |
| 1:47.3 | I don't know, five million people in the city of LA, six businesses received notices for not |
| 1:52.9 | checking vaccines, no citations or fines were imposed. All right, totally ridiculous and stupid. So, but there we are. Next month, |
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