Comments on: Get the Perfect Haircut: How to Talk to Your Barber

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:05:29 +0000

@Jake, go to reddit mfa and ask those guys. most are your same age. some front and side pictures of your head would help them decide better but i know that takes balls.

By: Retrosexual

Retrosexual — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:53:04 +0000

I live in small town of 10 000 and only 1 barber (which i don’t like personally) so cant’ go to. I’m stuck going to hair salons. I’ve never had a styliest who knows how to taper a men’s short haircut on the sides and back. All they do is use a clipper at one length!! How is that tapered??? I WISH we had some other barbershop in this town, it really sucks. Best haircuts of my life when I was younger and went to a real Barber (he passed away many years ago). Damn i miss those haircuts, I looked forward to going him – great haircut everytime. Took his time, tapered the neckline and sides properly, blended in the top, gave the top style as well, spikey or messy, or whatever you wanted. Guess i’m stuck with “speed cuts” so the styliest can get the next victim, um i mean customer on the chair. It has to be at least 15 to 20 years since I had a haircut I was proud of. PLEASE any barbers out there wanting to relocate? I have the perfect name for your barbershop “This Is How You Cut Men’s Hair” or maybe TIHCMH.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:34:12 +0000

Hello! Great article! I am actually a student hairdresser [hoping to be a cutting specialist down the road, targeting men] and if any of you gentlemen go to a salon instead of a barber, where the hairdresser is a licensed cosmetologist, not all of the lingo is the same [but all the clipper guards are :)]! Always feel free to bring in a picture to your stylist or barber! That is A HUGE help to us! Just a little bit from a student stylist point of view :]

Stay Dapper fellows!

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:39:10 +0000

Hey guys. im 22 with a young face and i wanted to get on here because i never have any idea what i want and dont know what means what. this article helped. but does anyone have recomendations on haircuts that maybe just make you look a little more “seasoned”.? thanks

By: Salted

Salted — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:29:53 +0000

It is good article that will ease many people’s life who change thier regular barber. ;)

I recommend that a man should try other barber from time to time. The change will give you a perfect feedback of your style and your prefered barber. Mostlly, the man apperiate his barber more than before, but ,sometime, the man get a shock that he was living in the dark ages.

By: Braden

Braden — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:11:13 +0000

I never know how to describe what kind of haircut that I want. I tell the barber that I want it cut a few inches or so, and they ask how I would like it done and I say, “I don’t know. Cut it!. I’m sorry I didn’t bring any blueprints for you. Just make it look different then it does now.” I just want a hairstyle that’s not too short, one that I can do without using any hair products like mousse, and most of all, a hairstyle that isn’t going to make me look gay. So no, I don’t want to look like Justin Bieber.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:46:14 +0000

Been cutting my hair also for the last few months. Now, I don’t have to make small talk about what I’m doing this weekend, how long I’ve been married, etc.

$25 clippers from Target and I’ve figured I’ve saved $80. Cool. I also ask my wife how I’ve done—-and I remind her to be brutally honest.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:10:16 +0000

I’m a pretty conservative guy in my 50′s with a regular haircut. I’ve been going to the same traditional barbershop for years. It was recently bought-out by a young guy who fixed it up. Now decorated with custom skateboards. The barber has major ink on his arms, moonlights as a DJ, and specializes in cutting lines and designs on heads. But he listens, and does a fantastic job. His clients range from guys in their 20s to 90s. He recently changed my hair from a parted style to a comb-back, and I love it, and so does my wife. Change is good sometimes.

I even let him shave off the beard I had for over 20 years. Eventually, my wife preferred the beard, so it is back.

By: Franklin rodebaugh

Franklin rodebaugh — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:52:31 +0000

Steve is my barber and there is none better.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:25:15 +0000

The guy who gave a crew-cut if you did not tell him what you wanted reminds me of the tale of the guy who goes into the barber shop and asks for a Tony Curtis. After about ten minutes the barber pulls up the mirror to reveal a crew cut. The guy in the chair says ” that’s not a Tony Curtis” and the barber says “it would be if he came in here!”