For men - barbers v hairdressers

[diond]

Barbers £8 & a chat about football..

Hairdressers £25+ hair pounced about by some dolly bird or "iron-hoof". Banal crap chat about yours/their holiday to "eye-beefa" or some never heard of celeb..

I was going to type my own reply, but that is it in a nutshell. Plus, I had my hair done in a hairdressers for the first time in 20 years last week, and I am fucking livid with it.
Why do they cut it fine to begin with, then take out a second pair of scissors and proceed to act like an Epileptic Edward Scissorhand?

 

[Grego Morales]

Barbers. Always, always the barbers.

 

[longdog]

You have a good name for a barber.

 

[Relahni]

Barbers.. I did try a couple of hairdressers, but felt i was paying a tenner extra for naff all. And old school barbers - especially Dino at the Oval - can actually do what i want easier and more reliably than some twat straight out of the Vidal Academy who wants to show me their skills.

Why did I read this and imagine Dub walking out of a poncy hairdressers with a Hoxton fin looking pissed off



Ah well, it made me laugh.

 

[chico enrico]

Actually, i dont think ive been to a barbers since the 70s. have always seemed to know chicks who work at hairdressers so get it done for free. get it done by a friend who now works in this insanely expensive place off chancery lane where every other person in there seems to be some celeb or some rich old woman so it's well cool spending an hour in there getting head massages from the polish trainees, cappuccinos on tap and reading vogue l'homme. a top way to spend an afternoon IMO.

 

[vipper]

Mrs Vipper does mine in the garden. Straight into the compost heap with the hair.

 

[chico enrico]

what, like Voodoo??

 

[Tort]

DIY Slaphead here!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Used to be self cutting for ~20 years, recently begun frequenting a local Turkish barbers shop, £7 for a cut, £5 for a cut throat shave and a nice hot towel with a head massage to boot. What a treat

 

[northernhord]

Though Ive got a shaved dome now when I used to have hair I used to go to an Italian Barbers, no point goin to a hairdressers unless youv'e got loadsa hair like that Lwylln Bowen Bloke who messes peoples houses up, now that's what I call a fuckin male poodle.

 

[oneflewover]

Started going to a Turkish type barbers, if i'm going out like to have the full hot towel shave aswell now. Proper treat for £16 all in.

 

[High Voltage]

Firstly, epic bump

I'm a DIY home clippers most of the time - but I do have a couple of patches of psoriasis, which I'm a bit embarrassed about, so if I'm going to brave going to a barbers I'll put myself on a course of maximum effort to try and control the psoriasis, so when I do go for a general tidy up it looks as good as it's going to look

Which reminds me, the only barber who offers a "drop in" service for a shave is in Yeovil and I haven't been there for a goodly while, so, there's a chance I might swing by there this coming weekend . . . maybe (checks head) or the weekend after