By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
In a humble barbershop on Glasgow’s West Main Street works a barber whose haircuts have been seen by millions.
After graduating from Barren County High School in 2024 and spending 10 months at J.C’s Barber College in Bowling Green, 20-year-old Grant Branham, a third-generation barber in Glasgow, has been cutting hair at his father’s shop — Vintage Barber Shop — since June 2025.
“I actually thought I was going to be a real estate agent,” Grant said, sitting in his barber chair surrounded by ring lights. “I job shadowed one for like a year and just felt like God was calling me to do something different. So I tried cutting hair and it came really naturally to me.”
Unlike his father or grandfather, Grant is posting his haircuts online.
“I’ve been filming stuff my entire life,” Grant said. “Everything I’ve done has been in front of a camera. That’s how I know how to edit…I really was leaning towards social media so when I started cutting hair, that was just an avenue to do it. Now I’m doing social media full time”
Grant said it was slow, even disheartening, when he first began posting his cuts to TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube until one December video propelled him to where he is now, cutting hair for famous country singers and TikTokers, staying booked for two months consistently, and receiving a quarter-of-a-billion views across all platforms in just 3 months, which he described as “insane.”
“It happened on December 4th. I actually had a no-show that day. He randomly texted me on my phone and he was like, ‘man, my confidence is bad. I just need help.’ This dude was genuinely upset about his hair. And he got up out of the chair after I cut it and he was a new man, literally. His whole personality changed, his confidence, everything. That’s really what it’s all about,” Grant said. “Everything popped after that, literally and I have no clue [why].”
Grant’s Facebook page has 93,000 followers, his Instagram has 316,000, and his TikTok account has 479,800 with 14 million likes.
Grant now has clients “from all over,” including those from California, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio and Indiana.
Grant said combining two of his passions is “amazing,” adding that others should stick it out even if it is slow going at first.
“You just keep going no matter what because right when you’re about to quit is when it pops,” he said. “You can be the best artist in the world, but if nobody knows about it, it doesn’t matter…You got to showcase it.”
