Leandro
Herrera
Colombian. Barber, thirteen-plus years. He moved to New Zealand, started again, and built LH Barbershop out of a room on the Kāpiti Coast.
Paraparaumu Beach · By appointment only
“Leave with more
than you came for.”
Every cut is considered around you — your hair, your features, your style, your presence.
Leonardo looks beyond the request to understand the version of you you want to bring forward, then translates that into a cut that feels natural, considered, and unmistakably yours.
The result is more than a better cut. It’s the feeling you carry with you when you leave.
Written September 2025
Starting again,
somewhere new
Moving countries is its own trade. Leandro documents it as openly as he documents the cutting — the language, the work, the ordinary business of building a life on the coast.
Passing it on
Barbers message him constantly — how to price, how to build a book, how to move to another country and start from nothing. He has done all three, across thirteen-plus years in the trade.
“And to the new generation of barbers: be patient, don’t skip the process, live it, do it with love, enjoy it, be humble, and wise enough to listen to advice. Remember, it’s not just about cutting hair.”
That teaching is a separate thing from the chair, and it lives on his social channels rather than here.
