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Their website advertises that they "do it all"... haircuts and ear piercings, I should have known better. Nonetheless, I figured I'd give our local barber a try for my 4 year old son's haircut. After all, how hard is it to cut a 4 year old's hair?
The shop is a decent looking barber shop. When we walk in there is a war movie on the tv. I ask if they mind if I change the channel, or better yet turn the tv off. Barber looks confused but says ok. My son has medium-long hair and the barber asks what we want to do with it. I respond to "take a little off and clean it up". He points to a generic barber shop poster and says "like picture number 8"? All 15 of the "options" that this shop apparently can do are very short. I said "no, can you just take a little off and straighten it out"? The barber says "like 1/2 inch", to which I responded was great.
My son sat absolutely still and quiet (both firsts for him). Meanwhile, the guy tugged at his hair. The guy then proceeded to take about 1.5" inch off, and left the back jagged and the bangs at a diagonal angle. He asked me to look and see what I thought. As I circled to the other side of my son, I was horrified as I noticed about a 1 cm gash. I asked the guy if he cut him and he said "oh my, I must have". So now my kid has butchered hair and a scar to show for our visit to 12th Street Barbers. Hey, at least they gave him a lollipop.
I suggest you avoid this place, particularly if you have kids. I have never posted a negative review on Yelp! This was horrendous and because my child was injured, I wanted to warn others.
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