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My barber quest continues with a visit to the Clifton Barbershop, Clifton N.J. USA. So far, as I test various ethnic barbers it always seems to me that they spend more time with me than domestic ones. What is even worse is when I am desperate and go to a unisex salon and I sit in the chair of a young, newly minted cosmetology student. Both always seem to have that snip -snip out the door feeling. My experience is that I receive more scissor work, more hand work with the middle eastern shops than electric razor or buzzer work the domestic shops seem to rely on more and more. Here was my personal experience, some of which was a little weird or disturbing, but all positive. I would recommend the shop and the barber I had.
Shave and a haircut, 20 bucks, not bad. Haircut was mostly scissor or hand work as stated above. When I saw the Nancet blades I thought I was in for something special in the way of cream and aftershave, dare I even say Gada since he was of Jordan decent. WRONG! Nothing more than hand cream, with my own eyes I saw it, hand cream from a squeeze bottle massaged into my face either to massage the skin or create a lather. I saw three shaves when I was there and every barber used their own bottle of the same stuff. The shave was excellent, no pulls on the skin, no nicks, all good. No after shave care however.
Facial, never in all my John Wayne watching days would I ‘ave thunk I’d have a facial but I did. And I liked it too, there, I said it. About 20 minutes of steam blowing in my face followed by hand work to remove the black heads with a comedone extractor which at times hurt or pinched. Then a scrub, wash up, and peel off mask. Finally the dreaded threading of the face to remove all fuzz and hairs left over. Threading is done in middle eastern shops with a piece of thread between fingers to pull out these strays much like a biblical Epilady of yester year.
Total bill, Facial, shave, haircut…55.00 and I left looking like a new man.
I do not think any domestic shops even offer a facial, many do not even offer a shave these days as the “barber†is nothing more than a man who graduated cosmetology school and is giving haircuts. Otherwise if he was a she, then they would be a “stylistâ€Â. I wish I could get these services from a domestic shop as I would like to interact more but they just are not to be had it seems. True barbers are gone it appears to me.
Shave and a haircut, 20 bucks, not bad. Haircut was mostly scissor or hand work as stated above. When I saw the Nancet blades I thought I was in for something special in the way of cream and aftershave, dare I even say Gada since he was of Jordan decent. WRONG! Nothing more than hand cream, with my own eyes I saw it, hand cream from a squeeze bottle massaged into my face either to massage the skin or create a lather. I saw three shaves when I was there and every barber used their own bottle of the same stuff. The shave was excellent, no pulls on the skin, no nicks, all good. No after shave care however.
Facial, never in all my John Wayne watching days would I ‘ave thunk I’d have a facial but I did. And I liked it too, there, I said it. About 20 minutes of steam blowing in my face followed by hand work to remove the black heads with a comedone extractor which at times hurt or pinched. Then a scrub, wash up, and peel off mask. Finally the dreaded threading of the face to remove all fuzz and hairs left over. Threading is done in middle eastern shops with a piece of thread between fingers to pull out these strays much like a biblical Epilady of yester year.
Total bill, Facial, shave, haircut…55.00 and I left looking like a new man.
I do not think any domestic shops even offer a facial, many do not even offer a shave these days as the “barber†is nothing more than a man who graduated cosmetology school and is giving haircuts. Otherwise if he was a she, then they would be a “stylistâ€Â. I wish I could get these services from a domestic shop as I would like to interact more but they just are not to be had it seems. True barbers are gone it appears to me.
