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| - This brings me no pleasure. I was a walk in, being in town and being long overdue for a shave and a haircut, I decided to treat myself.
Everyone was very nice, and the shop looked fun.
I noted the shave was a luxury service that was advertised at taking 45 minutes. I asked if we could cut some of the luxury time as I didn't want to spend and hour at the salon. They agreed. They assured me corners wouldn't be cut (pun intended), just that they wouldn't do every step of the spa like treatment. I would pay regular price, I assured them, of course.
The gentlemen who cut my hair was well groomed, and smelled good and very nice. I'm sure no one wants to be that close to someone who smells bad or has bad breath.
But here's the real issue. The services rendered were not only NOT worth the money they were charging, money I'd gladly pay for quality service. It was incompetent.
The shave. The shave was the worst. My father is an old school barber, and a straight-razor shaves should take 15-20 minutes for a full beard, max. With all corners cut, this stylist still took 45 minutes, and the shave was not a shave. He wielded the blade and moved it like he didn't know what he was doing. He shaved in small, hesitant moves that were uncomfortable.
And because I didn't have my glasses and didn't look into a close mirror after all was said and done, I didn't notice at the time that it was barely a shave. There was not a patch of skin that didnt have some growth on it and many patches of...ugh, look, suffice it to say I had to shave again.
The haircut itself was much better being only sub par. Meaning that I had to walk him through a standard short back and sides, slightly longer on top, tighter in the back. A standard "Mad Men" style cut that should be easy for someone who knows what he's doing. I touched up some missed strands here and there myself, and will have to get another cut in a couple of weeks.
So, avoid.
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