Barbers... #stateofthegaffe!

evolving_doors

Do men here think that most Barbers are grand in terms of cleanliness?
I won't say where I am but Ive been to 5 local barbers and about 3 in city and I'm strongly considering of coughing up the extra few quid and entering 'the salon zone'.
Its like any barber I go to dont even bother with barbicide anymore.

lizzyman

I always found them grand but I do wonder about the cleanliness of the shavette they use for the back of your neck.

Personally I hated going to to the hairdressers every month, sitting around for a half an hour waiting and making pointless small talk so I bought a wahl hairclippers and started cutting my own hair. I do go for a hot towel shave now and again but the guy I go to must be nearly 90 at this stage and has a sign up saying he's been barbering since 1945 so I'm sure he has a pretty good track record!

Regarding 'salons' - at the height of the Celtic tiger when we were all figuratively lighting cigars with €50 notes I decided to go to a Peter Marks and get myself a really great haircut. Was greeted at the door by an absolute stunner, she made me a coffee while I leafed through page after page of Italian models and their picture perfect haircuts. Anyway I chose a style, she arsed around for about 45 minutes cutting my hair and I left €70 poorer and looking exactly the same as I always do after a haircut. Total waste of time.

The Adversary

Never thought about it much really, I'm there to come out with less hair than I went in with and once that happens I don't mind (As you can imagine I don't get a very complicated haircut :cool:) I also enjoy it to an extend, A bit of a chat and can be relaxing to just sit there and not think about much.

evolving_doors

The Adversary wrote: »

Never thought about it much really, I'm there to come out with less hair than I went in with and once that happens I don't mind (As you can imagine I don't get a very complicated haircut :cool:) I also enjoy it to an extend, A bit of a chat and can be relaxing to just sit there and not think about much.

Ya I think the chat I bare just about... and I'm not looking for a cup of tea or mag either.

I'm just thinking about cleanliness... like I was one of the first customers in the morning and the guy obviously hadn't cleaned up the day before.. hair all over the shop.. all the different size blades laid out on a towel caked in hair/dandruff/scabs etc.

I notice the barbicide containers which are meant to contain combs/cuthroat razor etc are usually always empty. Even when other barbers beside me are finished they just ask for the next person up and carry on without even a token wipe or blow on the blades.

Considering the risk of infection of HepC from a dirty cut-throat razor I usually tell the barber don't bother and they look at me like i've two heads? Last time they used one on the back of my neck I had an itchy rash for days. Like would you feel happy about picking up a shaving razor off the street and use it at home?

As regards health and safety you can read about MRSA outbreaks traced back to beauty Salons here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630724/ as MRSA resides in the hair.

Passed by a few salons and had a look in at the counter tops... totally spotless with everything cleared/and cleaned away. Barbicide container full with scissors combs etc..

Dunno, has this post changed anyones minds or is it just a man thing of not giving a flying feck. In a sense I'm guilty too as I still go to barbers but all I'm looking for is a clean one? Like has any bloke ever here actually been in a barbers and noticed that the counter-top is clear without mounds of hair festering all over the gaffe?

Jimmy Iovine

Gebgbegb wrote: »

In a sense I'm guilty too as I still go to barbers but all I'm looking for is a clean one? Like has any bloke ever here actually been in a barbers and noticed that the counter-top is clear without mounds of hair festering all over the gaffe?

Go to the Waldorf. It is sparkling clean every time that I'm there.

evolving_doors

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Go to the Waldorf. It is sparkling clean every time that I'm there.

Oh yeah I went their before and I think it was ok cleanliness wise.. although there was something that I didn;t like that I can;t remember now.. I'll go back again (when my hair is longer !) and try to remember what I don;t like:pac::pac:

Like do they use the barbicide and are the counters clean.... cuth-throats blades into the barbicide after each use?

Tomagotchye

Haircuts are a disaster for me. As soon as they ask "what'll it be?" I always just hack away. Never have a good cut. Cleanliness wise...I'm never impressed, if they tidied as much as they talk ****e it'd be spotless

The cleanliness of the razor would worry me, mainly because I've got super sensitive skin and can cut easily.

There's a place I would go to frequently, who does great cuts, but is dusty as f*ck.

baby and crumble

I've been to a few barbers around Dublin and tbh I've never seen anything like the state the OP is talking about. That said, the places I go charge €25 a cut as standard. Sams Barber on the quays is always spotless, always take combs out of barbecide, never an issue.

If I saw combs etc laid out on a towel with "dandruff and scabs" on them I'd be gone like a rocket! Sounds like a back door abortionist ffs!!!