No Bad Days Barbershop

🔥 CUTTING & COLOUR MODELS WANTED – ROCHESTER / MEDWAY 🔥

We’re looking for a few cutting and colour models for Chelsea at No Bad Days to help her create some fresh content in the shop ✂️🎨

Chelsea has 10 years’ experience in hairdressing, specialising in colour as well as cutting and styling, and we’re looking for people happy to have their appointment photographed and filmed for content purposes.

We’re open to:

✂️ Cutting models
Restyles, layers, texture, shorter cuts, shape changes or anything that will photograph well.

🎨 Colour models
Fresh colours, transformations, blondes, brunettes, creative colour or something that gives us some great before-and-after content.

These appointments will be offered at a model rate / heavily reduced price, as the main purpose is to create content for Chelsea and No Bad Days.

📍 No Bad Days – Upnor, Rochester
📅 Mondays
📸 You must be comfortable with photos/videos being taken and used on social media.

If you’re interested, send us or Chelsea a message with a photo of your current hair and what you’d like done ❤️

MONDAYS AT NO BAD DAYS 🖤

Starting 5th October, Chelsea + Emily are joining No Bad Days.

I’ll admit, this was something I was slightly hesitant about announcing at first. No Bad Days has always been known for the work we do around men’s mental health, and I wondered whether bringing female stylists into the team would confuse that message.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realised it actually strengthens it.

I don’t think we solve men’s mental health by creating a boys’ club where men only talk to men. Women are a huge part of men’s lives, and men’s mental health affects the women around them too. They deserve to be part of that conversation and to champion it alongside us.

No Bad Days isn’t changing.

It’s still about creating a space where people feel comfortable, listened to and able to be themselves. Somewhere you can talk if you want to, switch off if you don’t, and leave feeling better than when you came in.

Chelsea brings 10 years of experience, specialising in colour, cutting and styling.

Emily specialises in textured, lived-in hair, colour, cutting and perming, with a big focus on self-expression and gender-neutral hair.

Two very different stylists. Same values.

Their services are for anyone — men, women, short hair, long hair, colour, texture, perms, cuts and styling.

Chelsea + Emily will be joining us on Mondays from 5th October and their books are OPEN NOW on Fresha.

Give them both a massive welcome to No Bad Days. 🖤

Winning trophies is lovely, but I don’t think a trophy ever really defines the work you do, the effort you put in, or the impact you have along the way.

Last night I was a finalist for Professional Barber of the Year at the Pro Hair Awards 2026.

I didn’t win, and genuinely, that’s okay. The category was full of ridiculously talented people and just being nationally recognised alongside them was something I’m really proud of.

A lot of what people now know No Bad Days for is the mental health, community work and everything we try to build outside of the chair. And I’m always conscious that what we do is only a tiny drop in the ocean compared with some of the incredible charities and organisations doing amazing work every single day.

But this award was actually about barbering — and I loved that.

Because underneath everything else, barbering has always been at the heart of No Bad Days. I’ve been cutting hair for over 10 years, No Bad Days started back in 2020, and pretty much everything we’ve built since has grown from conversations, relationships and ideas that started behind that barber chair.

So no trophy this time.

But being recognised for the craft that started all of this means a lot.

And sometimes I think the achievement isn’t necessarily standing there holding the trophy. It’s everything you had to do to even get your name into that room in the first place.

Also pretty nice excuse to head up to Covent Garden, have a few drinks, spend the night with my incredibly supportive partner and actually take a minute to appreciate how far things have come.

Then back to work. ❤️

Very grateful. Very proud. And we keep going.

A few days ago, I nearly didn’t go.

A day later, I was standing around 1,000 metres above sea level in North Wales.

I’d planned the trip with one of my best mates, George, but that morning my anxiety was giving me every excuse not to leave.

My foot hurts. My stomach’s bad. I’m tired. I’ve got work to do. I’ve got family things to sort.

Underneath all of it was the same voice:

‘YOU CAN’T DO THIS!!!’

I haven’t been massively open about my anxiety lately. Travel is a huge one for me. IBS, toilet anxiety, not knowing where the next toilet is, being somewhere unfamiliar with no toilet and feeling like I can’t escape, feeling out of control of my body and my environment.

That five-hour drive genuinely felt like one of the biggest things I’d done in years to challenge it.

George simply said, “Let’s get in the van. We’ll take it at your pace.”

So we went.

Five hours of music, talking rubbish, talking seriously and putting the world to rights. I wont lie, this journey was super challenging, but having a friend to distract me and having someone who understands me helped.

The next morning the anxiety was still there, but we started walking.

Eventually we headed up through Devil’s Kitchen.

Hands on rocks. Legs burning. Sun, rain, wind.

At one point Pink Floyd was playing and RAF jets came through the valley. Surrounded by these enormous mountains, I felt tiny.

And somehow, so did my problems.

Then came the final climb.

I sat down with my head in my hands, exhausted, and everything came flooding in. Every problem, every battle, every difficult thing from the last few years.

For a while all I could think was:

‘I CAN’T DO THIS.’

Then something changed.

I can do this.
I will do this.
Let’s go.

Five steps. Breathe. Five more.

Eventually I reached the top and cried my eyes out.

Not because I’d climbed a mountain.

Because the day before, leaving home had felt impossible.

Sometimes the biggest victory isn’t the summit.

Sometimes it’s getting in the van.
Taking the first step.
Having a mate beside you.
And realising that your thoughts aren’t always the truth.

Sometimes you have to climb a fu***ng mountain to remember that. ❤️

THE NO BAD DAYS PROJECT.

https://nobaddays.uk/no-bad-days-is-hiring/

No Bad Days Is Hiring! No Bad Days is hiring its 4th barber. Search barber jobs Kent and find a shop built on more than haircuts. Apply now, the chair is waiting.

🚨 WE’RE HIRING 🚨

No Bad Days is growing, and we’re looking for one more barber to join our team.

We’re building a barbershop where great haircuts, genuine conversations and community come first. A place where standards are high, egos are low, and everyone helps each other grow.

💰 Great earning potential: £850–£1,300+ per week (for the right barber).

If you’re:
✂️ Passionate about your craft
🤝 A genuine team player
📈 Hungry to grow your career
💬 Great with people
❤️ Looking for something bigger than just another shop…

…we’d love to hear from you.

📍 Upnor, Kent
⭐️ 4,000+ five-star reviews
🏆 Award-winning barbershop
💬 Mental health at the heart of what we do

📧 [email protected]

Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Tag them below or share this post. 👇

THE NO BAD DADS CLUB.

I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while… and I’m not putting a date on it just yet because I want to make sure we do it properly.

A club for all dads, of all ages. New dads, divorcing, dads, single dads, grandads, expecting dads, stepdads… anyone.

You don’t need to be a No Bad Days customer. You don’t need to know anyone. And you definitely don’t need to be struggling.

Maybe you’re lonely. Maybe you need to vent. Maybe you want some advice. Or maybe you just fancy meeting some like-minded dads.

Dad-to-dad learning. Advice. Knowledge sharing. Friendship.

The first one will be in the shop. Music on, snacks and drinks, good people and a relaxed space to just be yourself.

The club will be shaped with guidance from qualified mental health professionals, and we’ll bring in mental health-related guest speakers and people with real knowledge and experience along the way.

And I want you lot to help shape it too 👇

What would you actually like to learn or talk about?

Changing sh*tty nappies? Bedtime routines? Mental health advice for dads? Doing your daughter’s hair? Styling your boy’s hair? Relationships? Co-parenting? Dad guilt?

Literally anything.

Drop it below and I’ll get some good people and useful resources ready for us all.

No stupid questions. No pressure. Just dads helping dads. 🤝

Tag a dad you think would love this… 👇

THE NO BAD DADS CLUB.

Coming soon.

Shout out to Excalibur Sharpening Services for always sorting us out down here at no bad days. Keeping our tools nice and sharp. Such a top guy with a great story and very supportive of men’s mental health.

To the dads.

The step-dads.
The foster dads.
The adoptive dads.
The grandads stepping up.
The father figures.
The same-sex dads.
The soon to be dads.
The men showing up every day for a child, whether they’re related by blood or not.

We see you.

We see the early mornings, the late nights, the worrying, the providing, the teaching, the protecting, the sacrifices nobody notices and the love that often goes unspoken.

Being a dad isn’t about DNA.
It’s about showing up.
It’s about consistency.
It’s about being the safe place, the role model, the shoulder to lean on and the hand to hold.

The next generation will be kinder, stronger and more compassionate because of the example you’re setting today.

And while the world doesn’t always say it enough, we appreciate you.

Being a father, in all its forms, is one of the most important jobs in the world.

Keep going.
They’re watching.
They’re learning.
And one day they’ll realise just how much you did for them.

Happy Father’s Day to every man helping raise a child.

The world is better because of you. ❤️