Editor’s note: Answering  The Purcell Register’s five questions this week is Andrea Dennis, the owner of Andrea’s Barber Shop in Purcell.

Q. How long have you been a hairdresser?

A. 23 years.

Q. What do you find as the best part of you job and the worst part?

A. The best part is the people and making them look their best. Your clientele become part of your family so when you lose one it is the worst part. 

Q. When did you know you wanted to become a hairdresser?

A. Senior year of high school. I started at Duncan Brothers School of Hair Design a month after graduating from high school.

Q. How do you refer to yourself, hairdresser, beautician, barber?

A. I refer to myself as a barber.

Q. What has changed the most about your profession over the years?

A. The hairstyles!