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News Credits: 1 · by **Pontimax 01** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:27 am

So who here goes to the same barber every single time? This has come up numerous times with me and my gf, and even a past gf. They thought it was strange that I travel 15 minutes to another town to see my barber. One encouraged me to get a closer guy to cut my hair, and the other thinks it's funny and I'm being picky. But I always thought that every guy develops a bond with his barber. :?:

I've gone to the same guy since I was like 6 months old, and I'm a month short of 27 now. My dad went to him before I was born, my uncle the same. I don't see anything wrong with the loyalty.

Spent the day thinking about it as I found out today that my good friend and barber Lee died Friday at age 51. Terrible thing, he was a great guy and could really chat you up in the chair and made it one of those fun-looking forward to chair time events. It was like a 10 dollar ticket to a 20 minute BS session about sports, cars, politics, wives and gf's, and all that stuff.

So, I thought I'd ask, in the spirit of fun and rememberance, let's hear who cuts your hair and how long you've gone there. Lets find out if there really is a guy-guy/barber bond that my gf can continue to giggle about.

(Yup, silly thread, but let's have fun anyway.)

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:25 am

The trouble with this town is there's only two barber's, and one is female. The other guy started up only a few years ago so I was already content going to the hairdresser I was going to. Plus traditional barber's (like yours) haven't existed in this town for years.

As far as loyalty goes, i'd stick with the same hairdresser but they all keep moving around and I can't be arsed keeping track of them.

I don't think driving 15 mins to get your haircut in another town is strange. You're happy with the fella, why change something that's not broken?

News Credits: 34 · by **Supreme Convoy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:19 am

I've gone to the same barber for about 7 years (probably more?). I actually travel 30 minutes for a haircut. He's actually quite cool since he's into Vertigo comics and obscure horror movies/books so I can geek out with him.

I trust the dude. :CON:

by **schizophrenica** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:21 am

I go to the same barbershop everytime since I was 12, but it doesn't really matter to me which one of them that actually cuts my hair. But over the years I've learnt to notice the variations in style between each barber, and I'm friends with all of them too(5 of them alltogether)

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:36 am

I've never liked haircuts or going to barber shops. Even forgetting the fact that I am phobic about clumps of loose hair, I've never had a haircut that I liked. I just do it myself now. I've gotten rather skilled at it. So, I guess I do go to the same person every time. As long as "me" counts, that is.

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:13 am

Same here. I hate getting my hairs cut. No one ever does a decent job of it, and I just generally dislike others taking a razor blade to my head. I had one salon that I enjoyed going to because the girls there were quite uh.... Open in their discussion of things. But the mother moved that place about 50 minutes away to be close to her home.

Sucks because now I can't find a single good place and my hair looks horrible. One place actually had the nerve to charge me $18 for a freaking buzz cut. 3 on top, 2 on the sides and blend em together. takes all of 10 minutes to do and I got charged $18 for it.

I would go back to my old barbershop, but the one guy is so old and incoherent that I'm afraid he'll cut off my head while going into one of his stories.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:19 am

In the past three years, I've gotten my hair cut twice.

The last time, me and my dad went to this one place. I took in a picture, and the lady just said "Okay," and began cutting.

I didn't get it exactly like the picture, but the lady did do a damn fine job. And I mean DAMN fine.

News Credits: 1 · by **Jeysie** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:34 am

I have the sort of hair that looks like crap no matter what you do to it, so every three-to-four months when it gets long enough to be annoying I just go to whichever cheap place is the most convenient.

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:37 pm

About every three to four weeks I go to the same barber...me!
I buzz cut it all the way off as it's been disappearing by itself for many years so why bother with going out and paying some chowderhead to do what I can do myself in 5 or 10 minutes max in my own home.
The clipper cost me about $50 bucks and that was many years ago so it's pretty much long since paid for itself by not having to pay for a barber every month and it's a "Wahl" brand and they are very tough and good quality.

I don't do the "Mr. Clean" look and take a razor to my scalp afterwards as it's just too much work,time consuming and I need a little stubble to help keep my beaney cap on when wearing it outside lol.

News Credits: 2 · by **NOBODY LOVES WHEELIE** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:59 pm

I don't think going to the same barber is all that uncommon, one get comfortable with a person's work, personally I wish I could find a steady barber.

I had one that I went to for years, but I started to think he wasn't cutting my hair to my liking, and decided to look elsewhere.

I've been using SuperCuts for years now, the turn around of staff is crazy, I'm certain I've never had the same woman cut my hair twice, but they do what I want, and cut it right...and well SuperCuts is like tramp central, these women are hot, so that makes it easy on the eyes.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:12 pm

Before I moved out of Birmingham, I always went to the same place. A traditional little barbershop with three members of staff.

I always had the guy with the 'stache cut it, because he always did it well.

Since then, I've been to about 10 or so different hairdressers, and I'm going to a different one tomorrow.

It'll be my first haircut for more than 12 months. I hate haircuts

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:52 pm

I think it's a trust issue too, you build up trust with people who could easily snip your ears right off, yet don't.

I've been using the same hairdresser for almost 15 years now, and without a move to another state, I doubt I'd start going to a new hairdresser.

Then again I only get my haircut 2-3 times a year.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:55 pm

You find a barber that you like, you hold on to him like a precious MISB AFA C400+ grade TF man.

by **Nightracer GT** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:33 pm

My barbers have always been girls. And throughout my childhood, they changed. And they were almost always hot.

I haven't been to one since 2001.

But Pontimax, your kind of barber loyalty makes sense, and if your girlfriend doesn't understand, then that's her loss.

by **The Happy Locust** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:40 pm

I'm not on any close relationship with my barber, but I do go to the same barber consistently. I've been going to him every since I was young. It's a habit, but he does good work.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sherade** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:07 pm

I used to go to a barber a while back, until I was 10. Then my mom took over. 8-}

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:16 pm

I only get my hair cut everycoulpe years, but yeah, I always went to Mario's Barber Shop, even when I moved away from home.

Mario and his shop were pulled right from 1950. And realy going there was like stepping back in time in alot of ways. He knew everyone and everything in town so the conversation was always good. not only that you could always count on seeing a face that you haven't in years come in and wait right next to you.

To me it wasn't about the hair cut itself, it was more of a casual reunion with ones roots, and there's something about that.

Mario sadly retired a few years ago, and since I can't have him handle it, I now bounce from one place to another affiliated with the locks of love charity.

Still it's not the same, the conection is lost, nothing more than a happy memory.

It sucks cause realy the only two men in life that any man can ever trust are their barber and bartender.

News Credits: 1 · by **sto_vo_kor_2000** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:57 pm

I cant find a barber in my area that can cut my trpe of hair with out screwing up so I cut my own hair.

Before I moved to upstate NY I didnt have that problem.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:41 am

hair cut?

what the devil is that?

the last time I cut my hair was when I shaved the sides and back of my head to be like Phil Anselmo from back in the day :lol:

That was last year, and before that I hadn't cut it in years.

I love my hair long

News Credits: 1 · by **Pontimax 01** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:50 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:I only get my hair cut everycoulpe years, but yeah, I always went to Mario's Barber Shop, even when I moved away from home.

Mario and his shop were pulled right from 1950. And realy going there was like stepping back in time in alot of ways. He knew everyone and everything in town so the conversation was always good. not only that you could always count on seeing a face that you haven't in years come in and wait right next to you.

To me it wasn't about the hair cut itself, it was more of a casual reunion with ones roots, and there's something about that.

Mario sadly retired a few years ago, and since I can't have him handle it, I now bounce from one place to another affiliated with the locks of love charity.

Still it's not the same, the conection is lost, nothing more than a happy memory.

It sucks cause realy the only two men in life that any man can ever trust are their barber and bartender.

I feel kind of the same, distant memory now. He cut my hair from 6 months old to a couple months short of 27 years old. He had a guy's shop, car posters, car magazines, no women magazines at all, an antique barbershop pole, and a 32 inch tv to watch. He was a liked guy too, cuz his viewing had a 2 hour wait to get in the doors. The line was wrapped around to the back of the building, where the hearses were kept. Making it suck worse, he was at the same funeral home that my grandmother was back in December, so the memories of seeing her there were also very disturbing.

Now that he's gone, I told the gf if she wants to see me trimmed, it's her responsibility from now on, because I'm not ready to commit to another relationship with a new barber! She's already the bartender in my life. lol.