HVA6 Video of the Year, ‘Just A Haircut’ by @theaaronjohnson

This is just a haircut.

Haircutting found me when I had no direction. It taught me the importance of discipline. It gave me something to be proud of. It humbled me and showed me that I had so much to learn.

It's opened my world to art I never saw and music I never heard. This is just a haircut. Haircutting gave me a career. It brought me into a colorful industry full of characters and artists. It led to a Robert Chromian salon where I learned how to treat hair as a business. It took me to my first hair show where I saw that it's more than just salon work.

This is just a haircut. because of haircutting I met my mentor DJ Muldoon over the years he's taught me how to eliminate the unnecessary and how to make my own way in life him asking me to join him on stage is still my proudest moment this is just a haircut haircutting helped me meet some of my closest friends

It introduced me to Travis Smith, to Ben and James, Lucas and Clinton, and Katie Perkins. They pushed me professionally and personally to be a better haircutter, friend, and father. Haircutting unlocked the artistic vision I have for video work and it rewarded me with recognition from my peers from hairdressers all over the world and people I admire and

respect.

This is just a haircut. It took me to New York City for the first time, to Europe, to Japan twice. The places I never imagined going, cultures I would never have known, I got to experience because of a haircut.