It’s Friday and it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon. All the neighbours of 21-24 town that walk by Gaby’s barber shop, stop and ask for the cost of the different hair cuts. The place is warm and austere, but the music sounds loud enough to welcome in the costumers with good energy. The hair cutter and the shaving razor are ready to do magic.
Gabriel Heredia is 20 years old and he’s a barber. He was born without hands. But despite that, he does brilliant work. He says that he started working when he was 14. His mother inspired him because she is a hairdresser. “She taught me some techniques,” he relates. But he always wanted more. He wanted to try new haircuts. He desired to make original designs with hair and non-typical cuts. So one day he made a decision: he started practising over and over again. “I looked at the musicians’ cuts and I loved them. I knew that I wanted to do that,” he says.
