Barber Shop...Do You Use a Real Barber?

[Peter Kelly]

[Rich Engelhardt]

Timely thread....I just got shorn .

Went to Great Clips - gave them my phone number & a plastic bag. Told them to lop off the ponytail & stick it in the bag so I could donate it to Pantene Beautiful Lengths.
(Pantene only requires hair be 8" long and they will accept a donation of gray hair.)

They chopped off the ponytail then buzz cut the rest so I could start all over again and grow another crop .

Went home and went nuts with the scissors on my beard and stash.....

I'll look like a beach ball with eyes for a couple of weeks before it all grows back.

Heck it's all for a good cause & the hair cut is free.....win/win all around.

[Brett Luna]

Went to Great Clips [...]

My wife once worked there, briefly, when she was between jobs at locally-owned shops. It was a miserable experience for her. They actually enforced a policy that you couldn't chat with customers. Be polite, yes...but be quiet and be quick. I'll never give them my custom. Fortunately it was a short stint just to maintain some income while waiting for her new shop to open. She has a large and loyal client base who followed her from the previous shop to the new one. Many have been with her 15 years or more. She has customers with children who got their first haircut from her. She's given other customers their last...and a couple both. Some of those kids who sat in her chair for their first time came back for one more before leaving for college or getting married.

[Erik Loza]

Bwahahahaha....

Erik

[Bruce Page]

Ron Swanson - Basketball coach (Pyramid of greatness)

"Fish meat is practically a vegetable".. I love that!

[Charles Wiggins]

Here my barber.

[Mel Fulks]

Just checked to see if this had been mentioned. A lady cousin has been cutting mine for years. She has studied with famous hair experts. After she cuts it I look like I have more hair! Even after washing hair falls into place. When hair is thinning a real expert on layering, and reading the natural "map" makes a big difference .

[Jim Becker]

LOL! I never had long hair as in pony tail long. My hair was always too thick & wavy. If I went too long between cuts I would end up looking like Ronald McDonald with brown hair. I still have a full head of hair but I can see a lot further into it today.

I'm pretty sure Ken looked like a hippie from the 60's.

Well...HS senior...


About age 50...

[Bruce Page]

Jim, it was very much like your HS pic, but without the bow tie.

[Rich Riddle]

I am still waiting to see Ken's hippie pictures.

[Jim Becker]

Jim, it was very much like your HS pic, but without the bow tie.

Yea, well it was a prom pic and that was the style at that point in ancient history.

[Erik Loza]

Jim wins.

Erik

[Al Launier]

I applaud those of you who cut your own hair, but how do you cut behind your head? Even if you used a mirror I think that would be very awkward. Do you hold a mirror in one hand while looking into the vanity mirror? Are some electric razors designed specifically for this? I would think you might be prone to "unsightly errors".

[Jim Becker]

I applaud those of you who cut your own hair, but how do you cut behind your head? Even if you used a mirror I think that would be very awkward. Do you hold a mirror in one hand while looking into the vanity mirror? Are some electric razors designed specifically for this? I would think you might be prone to "unsightly errors".

By feel and a check with a hand mirror. Piece 'o cake...

[Gary Cunningham]

I have used the same guy for about ten years. One chair, take seat and wait. Usually there is no line.

Basically shears me like a sheep, #2 clipper for sides, #3 for the top. Takes about five minutes.

$5.00 for the cut, $2.00 tip, which he never wants to take.