Seat68 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I am guessing that Mike is a frequent user of barbers in Birmingham and Leeds. Couldn't put a figure on it but more than 3 I reckon. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I've been cutting my own for over a year now and have got pretty good at blending in the sides and consistently trimming the top, I doubt I'll bother going back to the barbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 19 minutes ago, sidcow said: My wife cuts my hair now as I purchased a set of clippers in Lockdown. My cut is the shithead cut, number 2 all over. However not long before lockdown my barber told me that barbers were the biggest growth industry in retail. I guess its a reasonably easy trade to learn and might explain all the wet cuts if that makes it easier. It struck me as odd when he told me, there are only so many people who need a haircut so it's hard to see how they can increase exponentially. It must be quite a cut throat business I don't doubt it Kiddy town centre now is seemingly pound shops, charity shops, bookies and barbers, popping up everywhere, must be close to 15 barbers in the town centre now, getting close to overtaking the salons The price range can be wild too, somewhere between £7 and £20 for a hair cut, haven't seen one yet that does a bar service but that's got to be coming and seeing as it's kiddy I don't mean an import whiskey and a beard trim I mean £12 for a floppy fringe and a can of fosters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted January 4, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 My mate was having his hair cut one lunchtime at UK Barbers in The Bullring during the early 90's. They had a bomb alert so they had to evacuate the whole Bullring. He had to go back to work and spend the rest of the day with half a haircut before returning in the evening to get it finished 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted January 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 4, 2022 26 minutes ago, sidcow said: It struck me as odd when he told me, there are only so many people who need a haircut so it's hard to see how they can increase exponentially. It must be quite a cut throat business I think you'll find that a barbers is rather a cut hair business. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 37 minutes ago, sidcow said: My wife cuts my hair now as I purchased a set of clippers in Lockdown. My cut is the shithead cut, number 2 all over. However not long before lockdown my barber told me that barbers were the biggest growth industry in retail. I guess its a reasonably easy trade to learn and might explain all the wet cuts if that makes it easier. It struck me as odd when he told me, there are only so many people who need a haircut so it's hard to see how they can increase exponentially. It must be quite a cut throat business If the lads in their 20s I play football with are anything to go by, it seems like young lads are getting their hair cut more often. I guess it's all these very precise shaved styles, and just a general increase in male vanity. Keeping a skin fade or whatever looking good* means getting it done every 1-2 weeks. Chuck in regular beard trims, and whatever else they offer (male beauty treatments!?), and I can imagine it's been boom years for barbers. We need a world war to reset this ASAP. * If you think skin fades look good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted January 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 4, 2022 After all this barber talk, I’ve somehow managed to get “Barbara Ann” stuck in my head. We also have a slightly high number of barbers (and hairdressers) that somehow coexist. There’s about 4 or 5 hairdressers and 3 barbers along the high street, all within half a mile of each other. There’s fewer than 100 yards between the 3 barber shops alone. Maybe that isn’t a lot but it feels like it is. Considering we don’t have, I don’t know, a baker’s or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 4, 2022 Sorry. The old multipost glitch strikes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: I've been cutting my own for over a year now and have got pretty good at blending in the sides and consistently trimming the top, I doubt I'll bother going back to the barbers Don't look to bad I guess 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 3 hours ago, AVFCDAN said: I remember when i was a lad i used to go to a barbers above the railway tracks and when the trains would go by he had to stop cutting my hair, used to say I had the hair of a china-man as well weirdly. I got the reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I've used the same barber for about 10 years now, in Lichfield (in the tudor row of shops) No nonsense and does a good job http://www.tudorrow.com/images/shops/shop 03/01 Barber/barbers.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Mark Albrighton said: We also have a slightly high number of barbers (and hairdressers) that somehow coexist. There’s about 4 or 5 hairdressers and 3 barbers along the high street, all within half a mile of each other. There’s fewer than 100 yards between the 3 barber shops alone. Maybe that isn’t a lot but it feels like it is. Considering we don’t have, I don’t know, a baker’s or something. I've said this before, and it sounds like i'm on a crusade, but i'd wager a lot of the 'Turkish' (they aren't Turkish) barbers are just fronts for money laundering / people smuggling. There is one i know - loads of staff, hardly any customers and owner has a £200k car. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Davkaus said: I've been cutting my own for over a year now and have got pretty good at blending in the sides and consistently trimming the top, I doubt I'll bother going back to the barbers I did it myself for a while too. Got quite good if I could say so myself but now my other half does it cause she is scared I will mess it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 4, 2022 22 minutes ago, Xela said: I've said this before, and it sounds like i'm on a crusade, but i'd wager a lot of the 'Turkish' (they aren't Turkish) barbers are just fronts for money laundering / people smuggling. There is one i know - loads of staff, hardly any customers and owner has a £200k car. I guess it's an easy business to use for money laundering. No purchases to evidence sales for, mainly cash only. Other than physicaly spying on the shop and recording the number of customers entering or leaving who can tell how may haircuts have been carried out? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted January 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 4, 2022 My wife used to cut my hair. I then noticed it was starting to recede so just gave up having it cut as what's the point and I don't have to look at it. Figured if it's good enough for Bill Bailey, it's good enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 40 minutes ago, Xela said: I've said this before, and it sounds like i'm on a crusade, but i'd wager a lot of the 'Turkish' (they aren't Turkish) barbers are just fronts for money laundering / people smuggling. There is one i know - loads of staff, hardly any customers and owner has a £200k car. There's a designer clothes shop not far away, always has his pals in there chatting, got some nice stuff, but no one ever shops in there as it's too intimidating, with all the gangster types sitting around on there phones. 100% it's to lose a bit of drug money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Probably mentioned this before, but the only barber I've truly enjoyed going to was a guy in Hanoi on my street. Didn't speak a word of English, had several extremely long fingernails, and at the end of the cut he would grab my head in his hands and twist my neck from side to side cracking it. First time he did it I really thought he was murdering me. Felt great afterwards though! Now I just get my wife to shear me like a sheep. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 6 hours ago, Rds1983 said: My wife used to cut my hair. I then noticed it was starting to recede so just gave up having it cut as what's the point and I don't have to look at it. Figured if it's good enough for Bill Bailey, it's good enough for me. Could start up an extreme heavy metal band? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted January 5, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2022 3 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Probably mentioned this before, but the only barber I've truly enjoyed going to was a guy in Hanoi on my street. Didn't speak a word of English, had several extremely long fingernails, and at the end of the cut he would grab my head in his hands and twist my neck from side to side cracking it. First time he did it I really thought he was murdering me. Felt great afterwards though! Now I just get my wife to shear me like a sheep. Sounds like you and him really clicked. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 5, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2022 Going back to Barbers for money laundering wasn't that obviously massively dodgy Blues owner originally a Barber who mysteriously earned enough money to buy a Football Club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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