Aspiring Artist, Inspirational Hairstylist

Everyone will find their calling at some point in their lives. Robert Lobetta was no different. He saw himself as an artist. Yet his journey took him for a ride, and he found his true calling. He found the inspiration to be a hairdresser and now, he is inspiring other hairdressers. H4ufme brings you an exclusive interview with the legend himself:

TELL US WHY YOU WANTED TO BECOME A HAIRSTYLIST?

I didn't want to become a hairstylist, I wanted to go to art college and do art. However, my father disapproved and because he was by trade in fashion and hair, he wanted me to join him. In those days, your parents were in control and you did whatever they said, so that was how I got started. For the first few years, I really didn’t like it, in fact, I hated it so much I wanted to get out of hairdressing, but for some strange reason something happened and it all turned around. I had this realisation that doing hair can be an artistic expression, so it wasn’t so much I found the inspiration to be a hairdresser, but rather that I was inspired to do things artistic, and as I progressed further into doing hairdressing, I learned that I could be exceedingly artistic in the world of hair.

Once I learned to understand that hair was just a medium of art it changed my whole perspective on how I would do art in the future and how it(hair and art) would be bound to one another.

That’s how I got my start.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES YOU’VE FACED ALONG THE WAY RISING TO THE TOP?