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Yamila Jadra spent her childhood and early adolescence between Córdoba and Buenos Aires. "I went back and forth between the two cities about 13 times and lived in about 20 houses," she explains in a dialogue with Infobae. The girl looks like a very experienced woman, but she is 24 years old and has the satisfaction of fulfilling one of the dreams she had as soon as she realized she was not going to continue studying after the end of high school.
In search of her destiny
She immediately told her family that she wanted to be a barber. Her parents didn't take it very well at first. This surprising turning point in Yamila's life occurred when that world was dominated by men. "There were no women in that kind of work in charge of the machines. My mother told me why I didn't study to be a colorist or traditional hairdresser," the young woman recalls. I didn't want that, I didn't want to work with women as clients. I felt that barbering was my thing".
Like all teenagers, Yamila went out on Saturdays to dance with her friends. Before going to the bowling alley, at the get-togethers, the young girl would start practicing on her friends' heads. "In those early days there were not so many techniques. It was mostly shaved hair and some details on the sides of the head. Then with time and the new fashions that came from Central America, such as textured and other styles".
The first cuts on his friends' scalps were sometimes a bit bumpy. Maybe sometimes it came out as if I had cut it with my teeth in those first moments," he said. "Luckily my friends supported me. Some of them later, when I was learning, I would charge them cheaply and they would bring other friends so that I could cut them before going out on Saturday night," recalls the young barber.
First cuts
Every Saturday she realized that her future was...