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Last updated 09:31, October 18 2017

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Ben Scott angry his beautician amusement into Benny's Beautician Shop, accomplishment his own aisle in Christchurch.

A bootless self-haircut and a mate's abrupt ear was the absurd alpha to a now-successful Christchurch business.

Within three years, Ben Scott angry his affection for barbering into Benny's Beautician Boutique – a business, accouterment ambit and, soon, a warehouse-style amplitude to baby to his growing abject of clients.

"I blimp up my own crew and went into this guy's boutique in Sydenham to get it anchored up, and I assumption he saw that I had some array of potential," Scott, 24, said from his band salon, anchored in his parent's advanced backyard in Burnside.

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Scott, 24, now employs eight barbers and a full-time clear designer. A new warehouse-style amplitude is in the works, accepted to accessible in March 2018. It will accept eight barbers' chairs, a basketball bisected court, retail amplitude and a coffee bar.

"I did a balloon crew on one of my flatmates, and I concluded up giving him a wee abbreviate on the ear with the scissors because I was too nervous, and the guy joked and asked if I capital to appear aback and cut his clients' hair, and it went from there."

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That acute day, calm with a rugby injury, led to Scott ditching a architecture apprenticeship and branch off to beautician academy in Auckland.

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Ben Scott, from Benny's Beautician Shop, riffs on how his business has become so successful.

"Once I came aback I didn't absolutely appetite to assignment for someone, I capital to assignment for myself," he said.

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Scott bought a band from a builder friend, "ripped it all to pieces and rebuilt it all from scratch", and hit the road.

"I had all my accompany who were advancing for haircuts already and offered those guys a chargeless crew if they would accompany me a new client."

His client abject grew bound and rugby access led to him accent some of New Zealand's best-known active of beard afore big matches.

"They are all mates, so back the Chiefs were in boondocks I teed it up with them to go out to their auberge and do some haircuts for them," Scott said.

The Blues were abutting and the Hurricanes came through the caravan anon after. Efforts to accomplish Beauden Barrett added aerodynamic got him on the All Blacks' alarm for their trips to the Garden City.

"It took absolutely a few chargeless haircuts to get to that stage, but already you've got the contacts there, it's absolutely accessible to accumulate in blow with them."

A highlight for Scott was acid beard for the British and Irish Lions during their New Zealand tour, including loosehead prop Joe Marler.

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"He capital to get bark all the way up and get a abounding mohawk going on, so that was a little different," Scott said.

Scott now employs nine staff, including a full-time clear designer, as he diversifies the company's offerings.

"We launched a accouterment band on Thursday, which is appealing exciting. Everything is accessible online," he said.

Scott was approached by Hallensteins in August to accessible a baby beautician shop in its new Cashel St store. The amplitude launched canicule after and accepted acknowledged with more appointment workers in the burghal and added retailers aperture at a accelerated pace, Scott said.

Plans are in abode to barrage a warehouse-style amplitude for Benny's Beautician Boutique in Sydenham by March 2018.

"That will accept seven chairs acid abounding time, a abounding retail space, coffee bar and a basketball bisected cloister in a 300-square accent warehouse, which I anticipate will be a bold changer."

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