Today we’d like to introduce you to Teneccia (Pooh) Williams.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Teneccia (Pooh). So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Well, I’ll never forget my favorite uncle “Shakey Jake” May he rest in peace. I was only thirteen years old and I’ll do anything for him. One day he told me he needed a haircut and I was gonna cut it because he wasn’t going to pay no damn body and that I could do it. That day he gave me so much confidence that I could cut his hair I asked my mom could she buy me a pair of clippers to do it the next day I had a pair of wahl clippers from Walmart.
I can remember being so excited about my clippers and the fact that he was really gonna let me cut his hair with no hesitation was the best feeling in the world to me at that moment. I started cutting his hair every week even tho it was an all even hair cut and he thought it was the best hair cuts he had in forever. I played basketball since third grade and the only one on my block with a basketball goal in my back yard. All the boys stayed in my yard. So I seen a hustle for me to make extra lunch money I started charging a dollar to hoop or let me cut their hair. Believe it or not out of ten little boys nobody wanted to pay to play but they all wanted their hair cut for free. Where I am from hair cuts wasn’t that important to the parent(s) either they couldn’t afford one or just wasn’t gonna get it cut unless it was a special occasion.
That’s where I stepped in at early age of cutting all my friend’s hair for free as long as they kept coming back. I could see I was getting better with every hair cut throughout the years. I graduated from H.G. Spruce in 2002 with a scholarship for basketball to Collin County Community, where I did everything else besides basketball and to get a degree in nursing tryna follow my mother’s footsteps. I didn’t receive my associates and felt like I let her down. Once I came home, she told me I don’t know what you want to do in life but I wasn’t gonna do sit at home and do nothing and that I needed to figure it out quick. I decided to get my CNA license. I drove two hours there and back for a week to receive my certificate. I started working as a CNA in 2004 and I actually enjoyed the work even though it was hard work and sometimes tough to deal with it taught me a lot about myself and the love and respect you should have for any elderly person.
In the back of my head, this work wasn’t what I really was put on this earth to do. I had a talent that came naturally nothing or no one could take from me and that is the Love for cutting hair. I was cutting hair for free for years. I decided I really wanted to get paid for what I loved doing so I wanted to go to barber school. I had to beg my mother to pay for me to go because she made too much money for me to go for free like everybody else I knew and get a check for going. I had already wasted her money in college the first time. I had to explain to her that this was gonna be different I would be doing something I actually love doing. Just to know she had enough faith in me and paid 5000 out of pocket for me start immediately, I knew this round I had to make not only her proud but to make myself proud and to do something I love waking up to do. I received my barber license the in 2010 and have been cutting hair since then. I started out cutting hair out of my apartment for 10 dollars because I didn’t want to pay booth rent being greedy until someone I knew and cut their hair for a while broke into my apartment and took the only things that mattered to me and that was my clippers. I’ve been cutting hair at RC’s Barbershop located in pleasant grove where I grew up cutting hair since 2012. 50% of my clients that I have now I’ve been cutting their hair since we were kids and now I cut their kid’s hair. That’s a blessing I enjoy and will be forever grateful for.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It’s been a pretty smooth road.
Please tell us about Knappy Fade$.
I specialize in Freestyle freehand designs I can almost never do the same designs in someone’s head. I’m known and set apart from others for my EXOTIC/Exclusive cuts.
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
Cutting all the boys hair that wanted to play on my basketball ball goal.
Contact Info:
- Address: 110 Longbranch Dallas TX 75217
- Phone: 4692451187
- Email: necciwilliams19@gmail.com
- Instagram: Troubl3manrudeboii_
- Facebook: Troubleman ExotickutzNfade’z
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