Samia Nafi 🇫🇷
The left-handed Master barber.
Meet Samia a Scapicchio-recognized Master Barber based in France, known for her warmth, precision, and relentless dedication to the craft. She carries the calm confidence of someone who has put in the hours: clean technique, clear standards, and an honest respect for tradition.
Samia’s path to the Scapicchio Academy began with admiration. She chose to join the Academy because of its level of excellence and high expectations and because, for her, learning from the best has always been the most direct way to become better. The Scapicchio story, passed down from generation to generation, represents a rare kind of knowledge: a living heritage she feels deeply connected to.
Today, she is proud and honored to represent the Scapicchio family in France not as a title, but as a responsibility. Because this isn’t just education. It’s transmission. It’s protecting a standard, and helping it travel further than any one barbershop ever could.
Training with Samia is direct and real. She can guide students through Level 1 in Bovino, where the foundations are built the Scapicchio way, or welcome them into her own barbershop for an intensive two-day workshop. The approach is hands-on and personal: steel, edge, skin, and the small decisions that separate “good” from truly professional work. No noise. No shortcuts.
What makes her an exceptional educator is not only her skill, it’s how she gives it away. Her strengths are simple and powerful: passion, commitment, and genuine love for the profession. She teaches with authenticity, grounded in rigor, discipline, and the constant pursuit of excellence. And she places real value on human connection, because for her, education is not just instruction — it’s guidance, support, and shared progress.
Ask her questions. Always. She welcomes them. She wants students to understand not only how to do the work, but why it must be done that way. Watching students evolve seeing confidence replace hesitation, and precision replace guesswork is one of her greatest sources of motivation and fulfilment.
Samia’s barbershop is more than a shop. It’s a place that breathes the Scapicchio Academy spirit, a home base for discipline, learning, and the old-school respect this craft demands. In her chair, and in her classroom, the message is the same: tradition is not nostalgia. It’s a standard and it’s alive.
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