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In all, 18 kids signed up to receive a haircut. Next to their names were notes for the barbers like “just a trim, “whatever he wants,’’ and even “no mullets or mohawks but anything else is okay!”

Some kids came in with a clear picture of what they wanted like Joseph, 12, who wanted his hair straightened and trimmed in the back.

“I looked in the mirror and saw how uneven it was and figured I should get that fixed,” Joseph told Wedding.

He told a 69���� reporter that he loves the movie “Titanic,” and wanted his hair to look like “Jack Dawson’s hair” from the movie.

Eliseo, 13, came into the room while Perkins was cutting another kid’s hair and kept asking when it was his turn. He was wearing a black hat and when it was finally his turn, took it off to reveal a full head of curly black hair that he said hasn’t been cut since January.

For his style, he showed Perkins a photo of a tight fade with curls on top. Perkins spent his haircut telling Eliseo how to style his hair to keep it manageable and what he can do to make sure it looks “clean” by using pomades and hot tools.

Wedding said people give back to the community in ways like this, because it will give back as much as it gets.

“When you give back to the community, the community blesses you; it’s like a karma reaction,” he said.

Wedding also said the free haircuts build relationships with kids; they know they can trust the barbers to cut their hair just how they like it.

Wedding said your hair is a big part of the way you look and if you aren’t happy with it, that can bring out a lot of other insecurities.

He said in the future they would love to be able to bring in a stylist who specializes in women and young girls’ hair but they weren’t able to do that for this event.

Wedding trimmed the girls’ hair but wasn’t able to give them a full style. His girlfriend was also there to braid the girls’ hair if they wanted it.

Perkins said he has only been working as a barber for a year and said this was a way for him to build a relationship with the kids for possible haircuts in the future.

He said, looking to the future, he would like to do free back-to-school haircuts in the community.

Kaitlyn Hathorn, director of program quality with the Boys & Girls Club of Janesville, said the organization has worked in the past with another barber to do free haircuts for the kids. This was its first time working with Wedding and Perkins.

She said this is a great way for the kids to get a professional haircut.

“We have had a few kids that you can tell want to get their hair cut but can’t because families don’t have the means to do so or scheduling just never works out and this just helps everyone out,” she said. “When they feel good about themselves you can just see it radiating from them. It’s giving the confidence back to the kids.”