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The Hair Game

Ep. 64 · Pushing Your Limits and Finding Your Place w/ Luis Fontanez @l0udabarber

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Business

4.9571 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Eric sits down with Luis Fontanez @lOudabarber to discuss his rough upbringing, what made him focus his life, how he started doing hair, building his Instagram, where he sees the future of barbering and a lot more!

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0:00.0

Hey, it's the Hair Game. Thank you so much for tuning in. We have officially opened two new salons in L.A., one in Woodland Hills, and one in Pasadena.

0:09.2

To check them out, go to SalonburyPublic.com.

0:12.1

This was a fun interview with Luis Fontanez, known as Lou DeBarber.

0:17.6

That is Lou with a zero instead of an O.

0:23.2

Recorded at the Modern Salon Digital Summit in LA.

0:24.2

How you doing brother?

0:26.2

I'm doing good.

0:27.2

Good to see you.

0:28.2

You nervous?

0:29.2

A little.

0:30.2

I told for the audience I told Lou that I have some really hard questions to ask him.

0:35.0

So now he's sitting here and he's sweating.

0:37.0

He was all g- I was good until now. You know, now he's sitting here and he's sweating. He was all

0:37.5

good until now. No, now it's like, what does he got to ask you? No, you're going to have

0:45.2

great answers to these questions. All right, let's start with where you're from. Tell us about

0:49.6

your like childhood, where'd you grow up. What was it like? Well, I'm originally from Puerto Rico.

0:56.8

My mother and father, they divorced at the age of three.

1:00.9

I moved to Connecticut.

1:02.4

And that's where I really, I'm basically from Connecticut, you know?

1:07.0

Yeah, sure.

1:07.4

So I grew up in Connecticut, and I was like back and forth from, you know, Puerto Rico back.

1:13.6

And so, yeah, I lived in, I actually lived in Florida too.

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