barbers v hairdressers

[friendofdorothy]

Is there much difference?

I went into out local tendy looking local barbers, this one: Porters Barbers Brixton and the guy with a beard said in a very sniffy way 'this is a barbers not a hairdressers.' What's that all about? Should I read that to mean we don't want women in here cluttering up the place? or this there someting else? It's been illegal to discriminate on grounds of gender for a while.

I'm growing out a mohi, top is long I'm wanting to grow it in to more of a rockabilly top / La Roux quiff thingy. I want somewhere with expertise with clippers who can do a skin fade on the sides and back. All local hairdresses seem to be either for afro hair or full of straight women with long hair. I want somewhere that isn't boring, where my dykey pink-haired self won't look out of place.

Recommendations for London hairdressers/ barbers welcome. I can't afford west end prices.

 

[purenarcotic]

I can’t help with recommendations but I would say barbers are usually for those with short hair and have traditionally been for men, hairdressers for anyone, traditionally women’s spaces.

 

[DexterTCN]

I went to a hair-dressers last year because reasons.

2 at the back and sides, pretend trim on the top? The most basic instructions possible Still managed to fuck it up.

No eyebrows, no ears, didn't give a shit about the neck, didn't understand sideburns.

Never again.

Women...if you go to a barber...they will try to shave your eyebrows.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

dunno really - seems to be a thing other people have noticed. found a BBC article 'I am not paying £40 for short back and sides'

there might just be some suggestions among the comments, but the first page all seemed to be 'but what about teh menz?' so i gave up...

 

[MrSki]

Try finding a barbers with a female working there. Might be more sympathetic. I used to go to Michaels in Loughborough Road but he certainly should have hung up his clippers by now.

 

[wtfftw]

I remember some articles about this ages ago. I think gender neutral haircuts are more of a thing now but mainly in hoxton (I dunno, where even is hoxton?).

Anyway. Suspect it just means all hair cuts are more expensive as women aren't subsidising...

The one I read about

Open Out

openbarbers.com

One nearer to you that I googled.

Haircuts — De Salons

www.cutthroatlondon.com

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Would the Mr Tops style places be more open to doing a standard short cut for women, I wonder? Some of them are pretty good - one near Covent Garden I went to was great quality and there were a lot of young people working there who definitely didn't have any sort of "old school barber" vibe.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Surburban barbers (Norf London) seem to be a mix of family-orientated and quite happy to do anyone and young-male-orientated places who will put up with an old duffer like me who's accidentally had a yoot haircut he can't grow out. I can't imagine many women going in the latter and not sure how they would react.

 

[Nivag]

These guys in Forest Hill do a really good skin fade and are really nice people.

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The Google map listing for them is wrong, I'll try and edit it but it's next to this cafe.

Westbourne Cafe
1 Westbourne Dr, Waldram Park Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 2PW
020 8699 9719

Westbourne Cafe · 1A Westbourne Dr, London SE23 2ND, Royaume-Uni

★★★★☆ · Café

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[Johnny Doe]

As you asked for London recommendations, and didn't stipulate the Southern wastelands D), if you find yourself up North, Tony's is nice a friendly, and now I've googled it, is billed as for Men and Women:

 

[friendofdorothy]

Thank you all. I've bit the bullet and been to the barbers today. I think I upset the testosterone balance of the place.

There was a bloke with similar style in the next chair. At one point both of us had the long hair on top tied up in a 'man bun' thats what the barber called it, while they shaved the back and sides.

I was the only female customer and I saw a female trainee barber. Anyway she did a very good job.

 

[friendofdorothy]

As you asked for London recommendations, and didn't stipulate the Southern wastelands D), if you find yourself up North, Tony's is nice a friendly, and now I've googled it, is billed as for Men and Women:

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I've already asked for local recommendations on the Brixton thread. I don't really want to trek all over London unless its somewhere extra ordinary.

I suppose I don't just want friendly - I'm seeking dykey/queer friendly as well as trendy cutting edge too. Thanks anyway.

 

[Johnny Doe]

I've already asked for local recommendations on the Brixton thread. I don't really want to trek all over London unless its somewhere extra ordinary.

I suppose I don't just want friendly - I'm seeking dykey/queer friendly as well as trendy cutting edge too. Thanks anyway.

No worries, I'd only see this one. Tony's definitely isn't trendy cutting edge, though friendly to all! Good luck with your quest.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Bump - brixton barber or hairdresser recommendations please. Having done home hairdressing throughoughout lockdown I think I'm nearly ready to face a professional cut again.
Short back and sides dykey style, queer friendly place needed.