Like many places, it is mostly salons around where I live. Some call theselves Barbershops but when you go in there's the dance music and the bitchy female staff that tells you for sure that you're in a salon. The spotty 14 year old boy getting his hair dyed bright purple is also a give away.
Call me old fashioned but a proper haircut should
Call me old fashioned but a proper haircut should
- Be done in a small shop
- That only does walk-in service
- That has a red and white pole out front
- Done by a man!!
- A man who has been cutting hair for at least 30 years
- Who was either apprenticed as a young man, or who went to a traditional Barber college
- Who only chats with you if you want to. A good barber is as happy cutting hair in silence as he is chatting away
- Who has actually been trained on how to give a proper shave
- And who charges a fraction of the cost of the salons but does a massively better job[/list:u]
It is getting increasingly hard to find a Barbers that fits my criteria. There are a few OK ones, but almost always staffed by women. I have never met a female Barber who was anything more than passable.
There is one guy who I went to for a long time. He had been cutting hair for 50 years. He was a little demented and never remembered my name even though I had been going to him for years, but he could still cut hair
I wonder if he is still going? I'll need to check in to that, because if he has shut then there are no proper Barber shops within 50 miles of my house in that case.
Anyone else having this problem?