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I just run the clippers over my head every two weeks or so with a #1 guard. Minimal small talk required and while not the best haircut the cost is right. Shaving my neck is a bit haphazard as times but generally sufficient.
I goto a old school 3rd generation barber I’m blessed to have in our small town, old school shop good chats and always a good time every other week
We have a decent one here that will trim your hair and beard for $25. I go once every two or three months. on time I went in, and they had very pregnant lady do my hair and she was superb.
I go to chains because they are cheap and nearby with hours that can accommodate Daddy Daycare on the weekends. A bad haircut isn't going to make me less dumb, fat, or ugly and convenience is king.
However, if someone can suggest a great barber (not salon) in Metro Detroit, I'd be open to suggestions. Also, what's the standard tip these days?
However, if someone can suggest a great barber (not salon) in Metro Detroit, I'd be open to suggestions. Also, what's the standard tip these days?
I love places like that and they are getting harder to find. I was going to one a few years ago and the wait-time eventually made me look elsewhere. It wasn't uncommon to wait for an hour to get a cut, and when they were that busy the quality always suffered (price stayed the same though).I enjoyed that it was an all-male staff.
There are some old-school shops around here that have popped up, but most are staffed by the ubiquitous purple-haired, tatted-out, ring-nosed young women. That's an over generalization, but I've been in some of these places where the everyday conversation is so peppered with F-bombs that it rubs me wrong. I even had one young-ish woman ask me my favorite drink, and then go on to tell me how she becomes a "porn star" after a couple of her favorites. Sheesh.
A few blocks from my house, there was an almost century-old barbershop. The problem was that the barber didn't do eye exams. So he couldn't see three on a donkey. It was a massacre. I stopped going, because I left the barber's shop laughing, and the people in the street thought he was like a watering can. Poor barber, he just wanted to keep his only business, which he learned from his parents. When I got a reasonably thick beard a few years ago, I used to go to a barbershop for young guys. Young up-and-comers, hahahahahahaha. Another nuclear disaster, they were smoking marijuana like a Siberian train. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror afterwards. There really are no specialized barbershops here.
I have a friend that is a licensed Barber. I prefer a Barber over a stylist. Each learns to cut hair different. I patronize him since he got his license. $32 plus tip. Get a cut and a straight razor shave.
I have to admit though, as my hair is growing out I have debated hitting up a stylist to see what they would do.
I have to admit though, as my hair is growing out I have debated hitting up a stylist to see what they would do.
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No one. Absolutely, No One, touches my beard. I made that mistake once back in the 70s and the barber trimmed my beard and shaped it so that it was pointed. That was one of the few times back then that I went home and shaved the beard off completely.
From January until August, I will visit one of the chains - either Sportscuts or Just for H.I.M. - for a haircut and they do keep a record of how I want it cut. I am usually not in a hurry and will pay for the haircut, shampoo and scalp massage. From August through December, I just let my hair grow.
On New Year's Eve, I will trim my beard to about an inch in length and let it start growing with only minor trimming. I don't trim or cut it again except to get it shaped a little in October and November.
Used to go to old barber shop front of my school. Bunch of old timer from military barber school from way back when giving cuts. Shooting breeze with other barbers and seems to be no hurry at all. It was good while it lasted. All the older barbers retired and new guys took over. Now I cut my own hair.
I love my barber. He's 80 years old and been in the same space for 57 years! He's from West Virginia and is a great story teller. Pretty sure he is still working just to get away from his wife for some time each day. Ralph charges me $18 and also gives a mean shoulder and neck massage after the cut. I do have to remind him to not oil the trimmer before he uses it on my hair....
Funny story I just remembered today. When I was going to that all-male shop years ago, they had a wall lined with TVs and all tuned to the same movie. I was in there one day and Wonder Woman was playing. The place was packed with men working, some waiting, and some getting worked on. When she came up out of the trenches, the whole place went absolutely still. It was like everyone in the room was in a trance. When the scene ended everyone sort of snapped out of it and everything continued. Cracked me up. Still does!
After I graduated from college I worked for a manufacturing company located in a town an hour north of my home. In that town was an old barber with a one-chair shop in the back of his house, and who the locals told me charged only $5.00 for a haircut. "Wow," I thought, "that's quite a bargain."
Feeling adventuresome, I stopped by one day after work, and submitted to his tonsorial treatment. All was well, until he trimmed the hair above my collar. I heard his gently buzzing electric clipper make a brief noise that sounded like it jammed, then it resumed its bee-like droning. Strangely, after he finished, he did not offer a hand-mirror so that I could see the back of my head, but that was alright because what I could see looked good.
When I got home, my wife positively appraised my cut, until I passed by her and she got a look at me going away. "Oh, my goodness, what happened!" It turns out that the barber took an inch-high hunk out of the hair along my neckline. That explained the noise that I heard, and his failure to offer me a hand-mirror.
The next day at work my boss grinningly-recognized that I had patronized this particular barber, and subsequently informed me that the old gentleman suffered from occasional involuntary twitches in his right hand. "Why didn't anyone tell me that," I asked. "What," he replied, "and miss this fun?"
Feeling adventuresome, I stopped by one day after work, and submitted to his tonsorial treatment. All was well, until he trimmed the hair above my collar. I heard his gently buzzing electric clipper make a brief noise that sounded like it jammed, then it resumed its bee-like droning. Strangely, after he finished, he did not offer a hand-mirror so that I could see the back of my head, but that was alright because what I could see looked good.
When I got home, my wife positively appraised my cut, until I passed by her and she got a look at me going away. "Oh, my goodness, what happened!" It turns out that the barber took an inch-high hunk out of the hair along my neckline. That explained the noise that I heard, and his failure to offer me a hand-mirror.
The next day at work my boss grinningly-recognized that I had patronized this particular barber, and subsequently informed me that the old gentleman suffered from occasional involuntary twitches in his right hand. "Why didn't anyone tell me that," I asked. "What," he replied, "and miss this fun?"
Ha, I almost made a Jayber Crow quip when you started this thread, but assumed that nobody would get the reference.
I'm a big fan of Berry's conservatism, and a big critic of his cynicism, and both are on full display in JC.
He laments the right things, but he only laments. A dose of hope would do him (and us) some good.