Reply With QuoteTrial and error, my experience is that "Turkish Barbers" give you the most TLC, wet shave, haircut, hot towel, coffee etc, all for £15 :)
Specifically how do you find a good one? My local ones seem either useless or at best inconsistent. Even in London it is hard to find someone who doesn't want to ty and make you look like David Beckham.
Trial and error, my experience is that "Turkish Barbers" give you the most TLC, wet shave, haircut, hot towel, coffee etc, all for £15 :)
Trial and error. Then stick with it. No matter where I'm living at the time, I'll always just let it keep growing and wait for an excuse to visit my parents and use the specific hairdressers and wait for the specific individual. Also saves me having to explain what I want. Just sit in the chair and she gets on with it.
Trial and error. I've found my last two barbers on Google maps. Searched 'barber' and filtered by 4* then read the reviews to make sure they sound genuine and also that there's too many submitted to be fake/just friends and family.
Once in the barber you have to find your preferred staff member. In both the last two barber shops I've been a customer of I would only go to one of the guys there.
As above - trial and error, then stick with the one that works, for me that's a local 'ladies hairdresser' where the stylists are all 'old school', cut hair with scissors as opposed to clippers and charge the princely sum of £5.00, I've not been anywhere else for over ten years.
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Absolutely. My local Turkish barber is same price, very meticulous and attentive to detail in trimming/shaving. I go nowhere else.Originally Posted by uktotty
There is another local English barbershop where there are seven young male "hairdressers" who chat constantly. I had the tip of my ear scissored off by one chap there, charming.
Trial and error it is then, hopefully not too much of the latter. :)
Don't some Turkish barbers set fire to your ear hair?
I've always wanted to have a 'wet shave' experience because that's sooo hard to find a good barber over here in the Netherlands. Last Christmas holiday in Egypt I had my first barber's 'wet shave' experience. That included the removal of all sorts of facial hair with a piece of string. I can tell you that removing hair from ones ear with a piece of string hurts!
Anyway, my first real wet shave was a fantastic experience with a wonderful result. I'd set myself the task to go out and look for a proper local barber for a good shave. Again. Sadly unsuccessful until now.
Number 5 clippers every time – no grading, no tram lines, no faffing about trying to give my hair angles – just number 5 all over, same length.
Then grow and repeat every three-four months. I gave up trying to get my hair 'cut' years ago.
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It's unnerving when you first experience it. They set fire to a fuel-soaked rag on a stick, then 'waft' it into your ear. I never even realised I had problem ear hair until then?
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Yup. One I go to does that. Smells nasty when it's done. They then splash some cheap aftershave on. Luvly.
£10. Number 5 all over with 2 at the back. Takes 10 min. No need for more fuss than that with my sparse hair.
What are these “barbers” you speak of?
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I always go to a ladies hairdresser. The lovely
Samantha cuts mine. Takes 3/4hr & get a coffee included for £10 😁 Any other bloke it's £29.🤫 She's been doing me for 15 yrs now. 😂I think a female takes more time and care.
Every 3-4 months? I go every 2-3 weeks!
£18 inc beard trim and a wash afterwards.
Man, I could not be bothered to go that often. How long can it grow in 3 weeks…
You must have a thick head of hair. The thinner mine gets the more often I have to go :(
Between haircuts I get my wife to shave off the ratty bits that grow back around the neck. Fresher for longer.
What are these barbers of which you speak?
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There's been an explosion of men's barbers / hairdressers in my small town for some reason. My main issue is everyone working in them and everyone who comes out of them all have exactly the same "do". Basically a modern (crap) version of short back and sides with some sort of parting carved in it. No problem to me as I've been doing my own for years, number 4 all over now, sadly.
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+1 here. The best haircut and wet shave I have had.
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[QUOTE=Onelasttime;5337173]Man, I could not be bothered to go that often. How long can it grow in 3 weeks…
Depends it grows faster for some other you know
Absolutely hate barbers and haircuts especially the “gormless bloke “chat so i married a hairdresser, mind numbing expensive option i know but it works.
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I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
I'd hate all that rigmarole visiting barbers.
My Mrs did all the training and does mine.
It's handy, she does it indoors on demand and you get to play that saucy game of "hairdresser and client".
Cheers,
Neil.
Generally speaking, Turkish barbers are absolutely awful. They focus on the “show” rather than having any expertise. It’s all fire, flamboyancy and cheap aftershave. They love to take a crown right off and leave the hairline like a character from Star Trek. There are exceptions of course, The Ted Baker Turkish Barbers are decent.
As mentioned before it’s best to read some reviews on google before you go to one. When you find a barber that’s good, stick with them!
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Sweeping statement alert. Perhaps that's your experience where you are but in London that is not the case. Most barbers here are Turkish, Greek, or Cypriot. There are some who are useless but the bulk of them are above average. If you're 40+ and want a normal haircut maybe don't go to a barber with Kiss FM blaring who specialises in putting the Nike logo on heads.
Very straight forward. I shave my head with a wet razor twice a week. Must have saved a fortune over the last 20 years!
And why are they all legends who used to be someone. It’s bad enough paying £60 an hour for a haircut without the drivel of a trip to the US and how another customers ex was from America and her friend owned a dog that eat the same brand of food that the monkey in the sitcom Friend preferred.
Okay, so I’m over thinking this, but you get the gist.
They're springing up all around where I live. There was only a guy (Cypriot extraction as I recall) up on the hill who was a barber rather than a hair stylist. Then I discovered the beginnings of the influx as an alternative while working in London Now I have a choice of barbers locally. The first, and the one I use, hails from Kurdish Iraq. Nice guys and very welcoming.
Like I said, a few are decent obviously someone’s nationality doesn’t effect they’re ability. I’m generalising massively however when a shop is advertising “Traditional Turkish Barber” and their services are around the £10 mark I would see that as a red flag and steer well clear! Obviously if you’re balding and it’s a quick grade all over then yeh crack on. If it’s a proper style and something more technical like a skin fade then the place with the loud music that might be a bit intimidating to walk in is going to be your best bet... if you’re brave enough :)
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You definitely feel like you’ve had a haircut when going to a Turkish barbers! Trial and error I feel is best.. you cannot help but love an error on someone else’s hair but a sick note when it’s on yourself haha !
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I've been having a flat top since 1984 but not all barbers can do it.
The only one nearby who can do it is an Irishman in a Turkish barbers and that's now only on Sundays.
Absolutely this - I've used a couple of these consistently over the last 10 years and they have always been cheap, and great!
The best barbers in my local town is the Turkish one, 12 quid for a decent cut and you get set on fire for free
Back again for more now!
The relationship I have with my (Italian) barber is the longest I’ve had with anyone I’m not related to.
Nine quid at my local Turkish for any style adult It's a father and three sons and two cousins, absolutely professional work with a great service and manner.
I have been to many hairdressers and barbers in my life, Derby Nottingham and London, this is the best bar none for me.
. Indeed they do. And trim your eye-brows if you want. Free hand massage too while having hot towel treatment (no giggling at the back)...
My 'hairdresser' is pretty crap, but she only charges ₫80,000 (£2.70) for a cut or ₫100,000 (£3.35) for a cut, wash and head massage, so I can't complain.
My Mrs used to do a flat top for my middle son when it was all the rage back in the day.
Looking in her hairdressing bag the other day she still has the big flat top comb with the inbuilt spirit level!
Cheers,
Neil.
My barber ordered a flat top comb off Ebay but it never came so he does it free hand.
Ive been in barbers, sat in the seat and asked for a flat top only to then find out what they call a flat top, is just a crew cutother times they've been honest and said they don't know how and recommended someone else.
When I first had it cut I was my 20's and the cut was popular with the ladies, not so much now
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You still have a flat top?My barber ordered a flat top comb off Ebay but it never came so he does it free hand.
Ive been in barbers, sat in the seat and asked for a flat top only to then find out what they call a flat top, is just a crew cut
When I first had it cut I was my 20's and the cut was popular with the ladies, not so much now
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if so, pictures required
You still have a flat top?
if so, pictures required
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There's a wood near Top Withens, Howarth that looks like my head from a distance.I couldn't believe it when I first saw it
Three to four months! I get my hair cut every three weeks!
Inspired by this thread I’ve just been to my local Turkish Barbers. I was quite impressed...they even styled my beard!
I have had the same ‘old school’ barber for 22 years and am 100% happy with him, he is a street photographer(Fuji and Ricoh)and a watch collector (Rolex and Omega) and a great guy to talk ‘kit’ and general ‘bollocks’ with. He only charges £12 which I round up to £15 and £20 at Christmas and he cuts my hair exactly as I like it every time. He emails me when he is away/going on holiday so I never have a wasted trip. Even though I am a seriously impatient sod, I will always wait for him even though there are three other barbers in his shop. If I could get my hair cut free elsewhere, I would not entertain changing for a second!
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Cypriot barber here i chose
Surrounded by barbers in Cyprus
Long relqtionship with mine
12€
Kids pay €5
There are a lot of high tec ones but i tend to go to the same one
It seems local town planning now stipulates that in any adjoining block of 5 shops at least one must be a Turkish Barber,this ratio must be adhered to in any block or multiples of 5. My village now has 7 and welcomes the more hirsute amongst us with open scissors.
My wife has been cutting my hair for about the last thirty years and as I do have a good head of hair, she just removes about quarter of an inch once a fortnight, therefore my hair is always about 6" long on top and about 2" long on the back and sides.
The problem with Turkish hairdressers is that they seem intent in reducing everyone to looking like a crew cutted, shaven headed thug. It is just a never ending session of using the clippers over and over again until there is nothing left to cut except a tuft on top.
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