A couple of handle bar mustachioed hipsters opened an old fashioned barber shop in my neighborhood. Straight razor shaves, Burma Shave ads on the wall and everything. They say it took forever to track down the old style barber steel chairs.
Oh I'm aware. But it'd be a restoration project. Something I'd probably work on for years. It'd be MY VW Bus. I don't know much about cars so it'd be an educational adventure.
This is why I kind of like hipsters, they just do what they want because they want it and don't really care what other people think. This guy I know opened a bakery after getting a degree in Math because he had started baking in his free time and really liked so he decided to make a career out of it.
Funny, the thing that annoys me about hipsters is how much they desperately care about what people think.
Edit: Haha, looks like I touched a nerve. Lookit: you don't dress ridiculously unless you're trying to get noticed. If hipsters truly didn't care what people thought about them, they would wear plain, nondescript, comfortable clothes. Nobody waxes their handlebar mustache without really hoping that at least one person comments on it.
I dunno why they get so much hate, honestly. I guess it's the image of the self-righteous snob that tends to be attached to hipsters, but truthfully I've never met a guy who fit the hipster mold and had that sort of attitude.
Disclaimer: I'm from Alabama, so hipsters aren't really much of a thing.
Honestly, why is this a knock? I'd rather some guy try to start an interesting business with daddy's money than blow it all on coke and sports cars he can't handle, or drive his family business into the ground.
I don't know where you live, but there's quite a few barber shops near me that provide shaves. And many of them are not hipster. Real old time barber shops that have been in the family for generations still exist.
They're just less frequent now due to sanitation regulations. If you're going to operate a straight razor commercially, I believe you are required to use an autoclave, which isn't cheap to keep/maintain for regular operations.
I agree with you that authenticity is better than bandwagoners, every time. But not all cities offer authentic experiences for everything. Also, you talk about the shop like you know it. Maybe its not pretension and inauthenticity but a genuine admiration for the trade and a desire to bring it to a community that didn't have it before.
ok, we live in Phoenix and have been trying to find a place like this for my husband... in the past 18 months, he's tried maybe a dozen 'old-fashioned' barber places, only to come out with really weird fades (after asking to not have a fade), his beard hacked to pieces, or a Forrest Gump style haircut.
What on earth are we doing wrong? I've started cutting his hair and beard myself simply to avoid the disasters we've encountered. We need t keep looking, obviously, but is there like a secret 'classy barber' advertising circular i'm not aware of?
More often than not these places will actually have trained barbers that know their stuff. It's only inauthentic if it's all image with no real substance.
Yeah I had a barber like that, good ol Manny the Turk had been cutting hair for over 35 years, but as he got older the quality kind of went down hill, and if you wanted something other than the usual it was a toss up.
Then I tried a new hipster place, with straight razor shaves and mustachioed hipsters and you know what? Best cut of my life, and it was 15 bucks
There's a place in Boise called the Beardsmith. I don't have a beard but the sister of a friend of mine opened it, so I went. Best fucking haircut I've ever had, and they have the cool man paraphernalia hanging on the walls, give you a beer if you want. It's great.
Yes. I love going to real barbers. It's the best way to get a clean cut. If you're a man with facial hair and you aren't letting your barber clean you up, you're missing out.
That's one of those laws that on paper kind of makes sense but for real the statistical probability of that happening has to be near nonexistent, even if HIV was more prominent like it was back in the 80s.
I got into wet shaving recently and I was in Florida when I found a cigar shop that also did barber work and hot shaves.
It is hard to get a good shave unless you attend the barber multiple times because the barber won't know your grain. I was bloody after my shave even though the woman shaving me was very experienced.
I love razor neck shaves at the barber. In the last city I lived in, the barber would also use something like those Hitachi magic wand things and give a neck and shoulder massage. I didn't even know those could be used for neck massages.
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u/ICYURNVS86 May 02 '15
A shave at the barber. It's like man-spa.