Stacy “Quick” Hardy recalls touching his first barbering clippers at three years old. He used his dad’s trimmers to cut his own hair.
“I got the whooping of my life,” Hardy said while laughing. “Because I wasn’t supposed to touch my dad’s clippers.”
Although Hardy put the clippers down for a few years after that, the gratification he felt cutting hair at that young age never left. In his pre-teens, Hardy’s grandfather allowed the future barber to begin practicing on him. And as his confidence and skillset grew, Hardy began seeing clients for a small fee…