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How to Tell Your Barber How to Cut Your Hair

For most guys who aren’t barbers, it can be tough to describe how we want our haircut. If you’re the kind of guy who has trouble articulating the type of haircut you really want, here are a few mens haircut terms that you can use. Mens Haircut Terminology Arch – The arch is the area …

4 things every guy should tell his barber when he gets a haircut

Know exactly what to say the next time you sit down and the barber asks, "How are we cutting it today?"

How to Talk To Your Barber

Insider tips to ensure you get the haircut you actually wanted when you walked in the door.

4 Things To Tell Your Barber When You Get A Haircut

Next time you sit down and the barber asks, "how are we cutting it today?", know exactly what to say.

Why Every Man Should Go To A Barber Shop

During the golden age for barber shops,the barber shop was a weekly habit, not only for a haircut and a perfect shave, but also to fraternize with friends.

What a Groom and Groomsmen Should Wear to a Wedding

Wondering what your groom and his guys should wear? Read on!

Hair salon etiquette: What if I hate my haircut?

What should you do if you hate your haircut? How much should you tip for a bangs trim? Hair professionals weigh in on top questions.

Bridge Street barber ready to clip

Having been a barber for 36 years, cutting hair has become a serious part of Frank Gabriel’s life.

Becoming a Better Haircutter: The Key to Success

Everywhere you look nowadays, you see someone promising to help you achieve a better “YOU.” Want a better job? Better body? Better relationships? Today, I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and offer to help make YOU a better haircutter. What I have to offer isn’t some magical potion that’ll make you clipper cut like … Continued

How to Get Press for Your Salon or Barber Shop

Getting press is about taking your marketing strategy a step further and validating what clients have heard through word-of-mouth. It’s about building your brand and sharing the story behind your business. This is what makes you stand out and helps you connect with clients on a personal level. With the right story, instead of searching for new clients they will start to seek you out.

Revealing the barbershop for what it is: a black man’s safe space

The barbershop provides a safe space, a place to nurture solidarity, a place where black boys and men can let their guards down.

66 Incredibly Chic Short Hairstyles and Haircuts for When You Need a Change

Indian barber uses FLAMES instead of scissors to give customer haircut

A barber at a local salon in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, India, gives a haircut with a difference. He skilfully uses fire and two combs to cut his customer's hair. The man's head was unharmed.

25 American Makers to Shop Right Now

How can you help keep independent designers afloat? Buy their work

Do you dare cut your own hair? Pro tips for a perfect at-home trim

Cutting your own hair may be easier than you'd think.

8 Top-Rated Shop Vacs for Cleaning Messy Garages

These awesome wet/dry vacuums will clean anything from sawdust to soda.

A Caring Barber Lies on Floor to Give Haircut to 4-Year-Old Autistic Boy

A Welsh barber with a big heart lies on the floor of his salon to give an autistic boy a much-needed hair cut. (Denine Davies)