Cranfield Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Is your area being infected/affected by the High Street sheep shearers ? Barber shops with young men equipped with shears (no scissors) who only want to know, "what number you want ?" It starts at one, but I don't know how high it goes. They take the appropriate blade, put it in the shears and just shear away trying to make you look like a Premier League foootball player. The extreme short back and sides is making a comeback. My old barber sold out and retired and I am reduced to going to a ladies hairdresser, where I get a traditional mans haircut, with scissors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Have not been in a barber shop for 40yrs and still have a full head of hair. In the last few years I did start to worry that there was some disease about which was making men go bald. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billytheghillie Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 I use the Turkish barber in our town, they are absolutely brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 I use the Turkish barber in our town, they are absolutely brilliant. hello, only 1 in your town Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 My barber shop would resemble exactly what you described from the outside as most of their haircuts require clippers, but they use scissors where they need to also. Why not try one out, you could be pleasantly surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 How much do you lot pay for your "traditional gentlemans haircut"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 How much do you lot pay for your "traditional gentlemans haircut"? £15. We have three Turkish barbers in my town and about the same number of traditional barbers. As the Turkish barbers are sending the money back to ISIS (or I am prejudiced enough to think that) I go to the 'British' barbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckandswing Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 £15. We have three Turkish barbers in my town and about the same number of traditional barbers. As the Turkish barbers are sending the money back to ISIS (or I am prejudiced enough to think that) I go to the 'British' barbers. £15!? Sweet baby Jesus. I go to a barbers which is run by a woman. Short back and sides using scissors is £7.00. Admittedly you're in the chair for around a minute but I prefer that. When she says how would you like it cut Gar, she knows the answer is simply, short. Never been one for brushing my hair never mind styling it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumble Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Bought some quality clippers in the xmas sale 5 years ago for £35. The grade 5 thingy stays on all the time, and every 3 months or so I have to sit still in the kitchen while the missus does it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 £15!? Sweet baby Jesus. I go to a barbers which is run by a woman. Short back and sides using scissors is £7.00. Admittedly you're in the chair for around a minute but I prefer that. When she says how would you like it cut Gar, she knows the answer is simply, short. Never been one for brushing my hair never mind styling it. Mine is simply a no. 2 back and sides and short scissor cut on top. £15 is the going rate around here. Mind you compared with how much my wife and daughter spend on haircuts it's cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrowningB525 Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 How much do you lot pay for your "traditional gentlemans haircut"? £23.50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 I do my own with clippers, No guard takes 5 minutes...... I am follically challenged though, Been doing it this way for years, can't remember when I last visited a barbers, it was run by a very nice young lady who used clippers and scissors...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollieollie Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Barbers round here are all very trendy, blokes dressed like barber shop quartets, rediculous mustaches, scissors and other gadgets in a holster, various types of silly spectacles and shoes but no socks. They think this justifies charging triple what the old geezer with one chair charges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted August 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 My barber shop would resemble exactly what you described from the outside as most of their haircuts require clippers, but they use scissors where they need to also. Why not try one out, you could be pleasantly surprised. Oh I have tried it, about 4 weeks after the experience my hair had grown into the style/length I asked for when I went into the shop. For the first 4 weeks I looked as though I had been visited by the Nit Nurse. Whatever you ask for, you get what they give you. One advantage was that I didn't need it cut again for about 12 weeks. I get the impression they have little to no training, just wave the shears until nothing else comes off. They do all seem to come from the Middle East, but I am not sure they are Turkish. Being an OAP I can get my traditional haircut for £7-8, but I pay £15. The "Turkish" shops charge OAPs about the same price (£7-10) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medic1281 Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 It's cheap around here then at £4.50, but it shows as my hair style is ****!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 There are still some traditional barbers around but my barber explained it to me this way. A lot of the old Tech Colleges have gone and its a lot harder to get a formal training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 It's over forty years since I visited a barber. Young lady hairdressers have a much better line of conversation along the lines of 'are you having a day off' and 'where are you going on holiday this year?' They also have the benefit of traditional 'charms' which can be draped around the ears during the cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 £10 in local Turkish(?) - several have opened up recently (last couple of years) and there is one out of the main shopping area with free parking outside - which makes it a winner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Turkish barbers and Uber drivers probably don't pay any tax and probably support ISIS. Support your British barber/cab driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 When I was at school, mens/boys haircuts changed from the old style >> mow it off short back and sides to some sort of shape and style. There were a couple of barbers in the town and one was a mow it off convict style and the other did style cut. Because we lived about ten miles from town Mother started to cut my hair and she did a pretty good job of it. In later years one of my daughters took over and then another one trained as a hairdresser so she has cut it for some time. I wonder how much money I have saved by getting free haircuts. I tell the daughters that I had paid for the cuts by having to put up with them and being a free taxi service to their friends, clubs, pubs and waiting around for them. I think that they got the better deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFC Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 I bought an electric clipper set for £13 25 years ago and I just mow all over once a month or so, no guards, piece of doddle. Quick polish of the biddie's skating rink and off I go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 My Kurdish barber does a very good traditional haircut for £8.00. What's up Cranfield, are you in denial over your OAP status? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatcatsplat Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 I love the Turkish barbers - Great haircut, trim my eyebrows, candle in the ear'ole and up my nose for a tidy up and a head massage - Wonderful. What I don't get are these new geezer barbers, where they're all silly swept back hair and beards and leather aprons with tattoo sleeves, doing a rubbish "steampunk" type barbering "experience" where you get to chug a craft beer or bourbon while they call you "bro" while giving you the same stupid shaved sides and back combed haircut, but for £25 a pop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollieollie Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 I love the Turkish barbers - Great haircut, trim my eyebrows, candle in the ear'ole and up my nose for a tidy up and a head massage - Wonderful. What I don't get are these new geezer barbers, where they're all silly swept back hair and beards and leather aprons with tattoo sleeves, doing a rubbish "steampunk" type barbering "experience" where you get to chug a craft beer or bourbon while they call you "bro" while giving you the same stupid shaved sides and back combed haircut, but for £25 a pop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Thought for a minute that this was going to be a dig at estate agents or insurance brokers. As it's patently not, have to agree entirely with the OP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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