How Do You Know When You Have The Wrong Barber? If your hairstyle is as simple as the one sported by DJ Shinehead, you might believe that any barber can cut your hair. It isn’t true. Luckily, you can usually tell how good your barber is and when it’s time for you to move to someone else. It doesn’t matter if your barber works in a roadside shack near the traffic lights or in a fancy parlour with a receptionist and music piped in from the speakers. Uptown, mid-town or downtown, if he or she isn’t doing two or three key things right, you’ll soon feel the pinch.
1. Is the place clean?
You walk in and you find yourself treading on balls of hair spread liberally on the floor. Your barber doesn’t sanitise his shaver blades before he starts your trim or shaves. Or worse, he borrows one from another barber but doesn’t clean it. These bad habits can have yucky consequences, so mark hard on cleanliness.
2. Can your barber pass the sleep test?
Some barbers dig so deeply to shave your head that it feels as if they’re peeling your skull. Unless you like pain, run for your life, a haircut shouldn’t hurt. You should be able to sit comfortably and relaxed knowing that you could fall asleep and not be bruised. Combined with a lack of blade hygiene, skull scraping haircuts can cause bumps by irritating the skin atop your head. It’s not a pretty sight.
To Read More: Purchase your copy of Volume 9 #7 March-April 2018
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How Do You Know When You Have The Wrong Barber? If your hairstyle is as simple as the one sported by DJ Shinehead, you might believe that any barber can cut your hair. It isn’t true. Luckily, you can usually tell how good your barber is and when it’s time for you to move to someone else. It doesn’t matter if your barber works in a roadside shack near the traffic lights or in a fancy parlour with a receptionist and music piped in from the speakers. Uptown, mid-town or downtown, if he or she isn’t doing two or three key things right, you’ll soon feel the pinch.
1. Is the place clean?
You walk in and you find yourself treading on balls of hair spread liberally on the floor. Your barber doesn’t sanitise his shaver blades before he starts your trim or shaves. Or worse, he borrows one from another barber but doesn’t clean it. These bad habits can have yucky consequences, so mark hard on cleanliness.
2. Can your barber pass the sleep test?
Some barbers dig so deeply to shave your head that it feels as if they’re peeling your skull. Unless you like pain, run for your life, a haircut shouldn’t hurt. You should be able to sit comfortably and relaxed knowing that you could fall asleep and not be bruised. Combined with a lack of blade hygiene, skull scraping haircuts can cause bumps by irritating the skin atop your head. It’s not a pretty sight.
To Read More: Purchase your copy of Volume 9 #7 March-April 2018
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