OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Chelsey Bledsoe has always been fascinated by barbering; she believes it started when she was a little girl watching her dad get his hair cut.
“I asked his barber one day, I was probably 8 or 9-years-old, I said, ‘Do you think I can be a barber?” Chelsey, owner of Oak and Blades Barbershop, said.
But, some people didn’t believe in her dream, “(His barber) was like, ‘No, women can’t be barbers.’ So, I actually got a little upset by that.”…