I’m Mario, from Napoli in Italy. For the last four years I have been living in Australia and now I find myself in Dubai.
When I was 13, I left school and trained to be a barber. My Uncle is a hairdresser in Rome and when it came to choosing a job, I suppose I used him as my inspiration. I worked in Napoli until 19 and then travelled to Australia.
I arrived in Australia with 3 of my mates and none of us spoke English and we had very little money so we slept in the car we had bought for the first week. The only words I knew were “I’m an Italian boy and I need job”, luckily this was enough to land me a job on a farm and I worked there until I finally got a job in Melbourne at a Barbershop.
As I couldn’t speak with my customers I would get them to type in to google translate what they wanted and I would read their style due to the clothes they wore and how they carried themselves. I was able to pick up the basics quickly and really enjoyed my time in Australia but the barber industry is not very advanced their and I wanted to up my game and join a professional company. I had been following Chaps & Co on Instagram and reached out to one of their barbers and the rest is history!