Because of his cutting skills, an 18-year-old Filipino barber in Canada has gaineed many clients.
Among his clientele are millionaires and big personalities, and sometimes his client picks him up by helicopter.
In the story of ‘Dapat Alam mo!’ by Oscar Oida, it was disclosed that Jamiel Bustos, who’s from Toronto, started to love cutting hair when he was only four years old.
He was also around that age when his family flew to Canada to give him a better opportunity.
According to Jamiel’s Mother Leslie, Jamiel was deliberately picky when it came to his haircut.
“Every now and then na magpapagupit, ‘Mom I wanna try another one, I didn’t like my haircut before.’ So hanap na naman ako. Sabi niya kasi ang hair ang nagbibigay ng ganda sa isang tao. Siguro nandoon ‘yung interes niya sa ganu’n,” Leslie said.
One day, Jamiel thought that he was the only one who could make his own hairstyle.
“I love getting my haircut. I would get my haircut once a week. So I was like ‘You know what, might as well try this one on my own.’ So I started cutting my own hair,” Jamiel said.
Then later on Jamiel discovered that he has a talent for cutting hair.
“It felt amazing finally having someone sit in the chair and actually trusting me. It’s all about trust and it’s all about, it’s your image right? You want to look as best as possible and the person doing your hair is pretty much in control of that,” he shared.
So after school or basketball practice, Jamiel would go to the barber shop and get a haircut, or watch barbers cut hair.
Jamiel posted his haircutting videos on Tiktok, and many netizens enjoyed it.
Because of his videos, he was noticed by big personalities in Canada, and had customers who were businessmen, lawyers, real estate developers and company CEOs.
One of his big clients, he said, even had him picked up by a helicopter. Oh wow!
Carrying his gold briefcase containing his cutting tools, Jamiel has been to different countries for important clients.
“When I first started cutting hair I’ve had some people not pay for their haircut, I’ve had some people that complained. I just use the haters as motivation. I just kept doing it, I kept practicing,” Jamiel said.
Jamiel’s service is exclusive at the moment but he plans to build a barbershop in the near future.
