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| - I used to cut my own hair, haphazardly, with a pair of Andis clippers. Once, due to a series of unfortunate events, I ended up needing a new passport photo the day I cut my hair. I hadn't realized quite how much of a goob I looked like. Since I was going from free to paying for haircuts, I chose a Supercuts, and it was better than I did for myself.
Periodically I'm burned by a supercut, but what I've learned is that if you know what you want and tell the cutter how to do it, things generally turn out alright, and I've been going to this location since I moved to Pittsburgh and have never had a bad experience.
The Supercuts I used to go to in Boston was renovated with a spa-feel. Mostly that meant new seating, and heated-massage chairs at the sinks where they do shampoos. Not the case in Shadyside. It's in a stripmall, and everything is kind of dated. The only "spa" treatment they have is the tea tree experience: you get a bit of a hot towel face massage and special tingly tea tree shampoo. Some of the cutters will spend several minutes on this, while others finish so fast it seems like they have an aversion to scalp-contact. It's hit or miss in terms of the amount of time they spend, but for $5 that's a risk I'm willing to take. Of course you can do the same for yourself with a little Dr. Bronner's, but after letting someone operate sharp machinery near my face, sometimes I want to be pampered just a bit.
So far, while some have been better than others, I've never had an embarrassing cut at this location, and if you're a dude with short hair, you can be in and out during your lunch break at work for $30 (or about $20 if you don't want the shampoo).
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