As aself-described ‘tomboy’ Dani Seeberan (aka Toastie Styles) always felt that she didn’t fit in, so it was no surprise to her that after some time cutting women’s hair, she felt that something was missing. “I always enjoyed cutting shorter styles so I knew that barbering would be for me,” she explains. From there Dani took on the challenge of learning how to cut men’s hair, “Meeting the people I looked up to in the industry and picking their brain really helped me and guided me in the right direction,” she explains, going on to say that a grounding in the barbershop allowed her to watch how others worked creatively. This gave her an idea of how to improve the skills she was already learning through online tutorials. As someone who wasn’t learning her craft in the traditional way, Dani experienced a lot of self-doubt. She told MB: “In school I had a very visual imagination so my approach to cutting hair has been the same. I always had my own way of cutting and for a few years I was comfortable with that, but the barbering industry has shown me different methods such as people changing the way they hold their scissors and their cutting techniques.” Dani says that changing the way she worked to be like everyone else was too robotic, “That’s the biggest struggle for me. You’re an artist at the end of the day, so changing how I did things to be like others was frustrating,” she says.