HAIR CUT in London

come to the harrow road. you can get a hair cut, buy drugs, get caught in the cross-fire of a drive-by and still have money left for the bus home.

i got a weird mullet at hair by fairy once

Recommended - http://www.theloungesoho.co.uk

It's a bit Nathan Barley, though. Depends what you're after, I guess.

Chris in the barbershop on Rosebery Avenue next to Post Office and Antony & Alison shop, Ronan. Tell him I sent you (U&K), it's £9 and he's there on Tuesdays. I normally tip him the price of a pint. People who have gone to him include Tracer, charltonlido and Colette.

You can get a haircut at the Greek barbers in Finsbury Park for £4, but don't expect anything fancy.

http://www.pimpsandpinups.com/

As used by Green Day and a bunch of burlesque dancers. Should probably be nerve gassed for the good of society.

Chris can do 'fancy' on request in about 20 minutes. He is ex-catwalk hair/makeup team playa who defected to barbershop realness. Before I found Chris, I went to CUTS in Soho which is completely entertaining in every way, you walk in and there's a discussion going on and everyone chips in whether they're in the chair or holding implements. Also a bit of an off-schedule music industry haunt. Conrad or Daniel there will sort you out but it's whoa expensive compared to Hairdresser Chris.

Thought this would be a liveblog.

ha ha I would certify The Lounge, Peter St. Soho too. I've been going there for 5+ years, tried trendy east London places in between but hate the fickle trends that they dictate. Okay it's quite media but not obsessed. Not saying who my stylist is cos it's a nightmare getting him already!

http://www.northlaine.co.uk/01photos/shopfronts/gardnerstreet/toppers.jpg

i'm not too proud to say i have had my hair cut in this very establishment

oh no i didn't, that's in Brighton. i guess after a while they all look the same.

The day I had a number 2 crew cut in a Mr Toppers... the guy f*&ked up with sprouting bits over my head, which I didn't notice. obv.. WAS THE FUNNIEST DAY... nipped into Argos before closing, bought clippers, went home and did it again.. JESUS!!!

in fact I could give you a list of no-go places...

I go to this old dude's place just off the Old St. roundabout. £9 cut no fuss no muss.

i go to local barbers around holloway these days, sometimes supercut. paying more than £11 for a man's haircut is just wasting money.

yeah, Chris is good

xpost is it "Hair Machine" you're talking about ken??

One can get a good beard trim in the barber's where chris works as well, although for poncing around try the barbers in the basement of liberty.

haha. it's "ossie's barbers" on parkhurst road i go to now. or sometimes Salem Hairdressers on Hillmarton Road, where ONCE started talking to this slightly odd guy while i was waiting for my haircut, then PAID for my hair cut whilst i was getting it cut!!?!?!?! (i didn't have to have sex with him or anything)

admittedly, it would only have costed £6 in the first place.

..who then PAID for my hair cut

i mean

but one day i'll walk up to archway road for "short cuts"

I recommend The Barber Shop on Shepherd Market in poncy Mayfair. An excellent no-nonsense haircut for about a tenner.

I'm not ashamed to say I go to Mr Toppers! I've never had a problem, but then again, my haircut is always a 'number 3, all around.'

I have gotten good haircuts at 'Essensuals' on Finchley Road, right by the tube stop. 22 quid I think?

I am going very bald, believe me a good haircut works magic. A bad one looks awful.

One of my friends swears by the dudes at the Topper's around the corner from Tottenham Ct. Rd. I know, I don't get it either.

They know what they're doing! Seriously, I know I make low-risk haircut demands, but I've never had a problem with them.

And your in and out in under 10 minutes!

I go to this old dude's place just off the Old St. roundabout. £9 cut no fuss no muss.

more detail pls. i could do with a muss-free trim and, location-wise, that would be very convenient.

i found a top quality cutter but it's fucking expensive, 50 quid. he is guaranteed results tho imo, and decent conversation.

You have admirable hair, it's true, and I like the idea of a guaranteed haircut. Tbh when I'm getting a trim I actually find no-chat more awkward than chat so this is a def point in its favour.

I may have managed to talk myself into it in typing this post, although £50 is 0_o more than I am used to paying I go so infrequently it may be worth it.

I go to an 18-year-old Jamaican woman who who grew up in London and has never heard of Sade

I have, he used to rent out Tents.

yeah 50 quid seems like madness tho i rationalise it by reminding myself i'll be bald in a few years and won't need a haircut. i went to taylor taylor a few times and you get a champagne cocktail, it's also 50 quid, but then the the haircuts weren't up to muster so i moved on to a place on redchurch st where i now know the dude who does it well enough for a non-awkward conversation.

is that radio?

The magic of getting your hair cut by Ron Tent is a wonder without compare

"Put your hair in my scissors.. I won't cut you I promise"

that's Tenty for you, a gentle giant - he literally strokes the hair out of your head like a sea otter on show at Waterworld

ginger girl at pimps and pinups wuz great at putting up with me

"shorter but not short, trendy but not fashionble i probably won't get it cut again for another year, sorry it's such a mess i tried to cut it a while bacl etc etc"

think it was about £25. bad music. very nathan barley. but my best haircut experience in london so far.

is that radio?

that's the one. ask for john paul.

anything good in bloomsbury? i might just go to mr topper otherwise

fitzrovia also ok. maybe soho

xxpost yeah i was just wondering cuz i have a friend who works there (not john paul)

Soho - The Lounge on Peter St.

I'm coming to London in a month and a half and will be bringing my hair kit. I would be willing to cut people's hair for 50 pounds.

By the way, I'm totally serious about this. I'll cut hair for cheap.

50 ain't cheap to me but i'd be up for a FAP.. or is that a FAHC?

What is cheap? 10? 5?

Since I cut my own hair anyways I figured I can make pocket change by cutting people's (i.e. future classmates') hair for bottom of the line prices.

I'm going to London in a month and that means I'll be losing the services of the friend who's been cutting my hair for free for the past eight years, if you can match that service then YOU'VE GOT A DEAL.

I can cut your hair for free, but it'll cost you...

50 quid for a haircut wtf

yeah but he does cut his own hair so he knows what he's doing.

I pay £50 but I am a girl and that's what happens, sigh. I'm also on the lookout for a London hairdresser as mine recently fucked off to Ibiza. The salon gave me a superior stylist for the price I used to pay and it was a great cut, but it will be £70 if I go to her again and ... no.

groupon/kgb sometimes have deals - just got a voucher for haircut that is £8 in fact (cheaper than mr toppers)

see here
http://9c125378-279a-11e0-830a-0024e8696030.kgbdeals.co.uk/?id=39931

Like, stacked up against everything you can get for 50 pounds, who's going to take a haircut over that? Having not paid for a haircut in almost 8 years, I've easily saved over 600 dollars, which I am enjoying on better things.

Stacked up against what exactly? Your hair is on your head all day every day, plus if you've only got a few years left of it no harm actually getting it to look well. Makes a big diff if you're receding to go somewhere good. I don't expect everyone to agree, presumably others spend cash on things I wouldn't.

I dunno, I feel that something like 5 records is worth mangy hair for another 2-3 months. But I'm notoriously frugal like that.

I feel better if I feel I look okay, maybe unusual for a guy but it's true!

Excerpt from my forthcoming L'Oreal campaign.

Don't get me wrong, I definitely do too. But my anabating love for material possessions has the power of overriding that.

3 nights out on the booze is around 50 quid these days.

never paid for then a tenner for a haircut though

more than

time was you could buy a conference footballer for £50 and he was your personal serf for the duration of his contract

as much as i lyke 2 look sexxee i guess i don't value hairstyles enough to think there's a significant difference between a moderately competent DIY number and an expensive professional job. also i too like things. if i were bald and could spend the money on permanently available wigs then maybe that's different.

Xpost: as a feudal lord, I always have to look my best, but also maintain a shrewd financial profile. That's why I've learned to master the art of auto-hair cutting.

Also, not the best picture, but for reference.

When I was at uni and my mum found out how much I paid for a haircut (about £30 at the time) she went mad until I reminded her I could be spending the money on cigarettes.

EDB, that does look good tbh although some hair cuts or hair types are easier than others. there was another ilxor on the WDYLL thread a couple of months back who posted his own self-cut hair pic and everyone was like "great job" and it it was a totally shit hair cut and no one was doing him any favours by saying otherwise but what can you do.

For sure. It took about 4 years of wreaking sheer violence on my head to be able to get to that. And even still, I can only do two styles (that, and a shorter version of that). My whole idea is that, at school, I can provide a basic service to mangy, unkempt, and broke graduate students, and get a couple of pounds here and there. Win-Win etc.

there's some place in whitechapel that will do this for you for free as long as you talk about capitalism or something

i would do it but i get free haircuts in toni & guy

http://thehaircutbeforetheparty.net/about.html

i got a 'joey barton' cut today. it suits me though.

i sort of see the point when people say about buying books or whatever, except i know people who readily spend a lot of money on say, a pair of jeans, when ime good jeans are cheap, or other clothes, then get a shitty haircut. as i say, your hair is there day in day out. i also am so deep into this philosophy that i don't compare it to other things, getting a haircut is like paying for light and heat or whatever, except that if i'm skint i'll just have to wait till i have the money. i used to pay a good bit less and i'm fairly sure you can get a great haircut for less, but i am also certain that where i'm going is far and away the best haircuts i've got anywhere.

ie my experience with haircuts is if you find a good one stick to it, when i paid eg £20 i'd be back way more often and it would be hit/miss as well, and they never listened properly.

i've done cheap and pricey in my time and there really is no rhyme or reason to the quality you'll receive, even with (what you'd effing bloody well think were) classical standard mens styles. you just have to find someone who "gets it" as it were.

another thing is that the mark of a truly great haircut is that it will grow out very well, which is a strongly mitigating factor should it happen to have been expensive. (although luckily mine's a tenner now so i can treat myself monthly).

i would do it but i get free haircuts in toni & guy

― plax (ico), Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

At the school behind Center Point? I used to do that when I was in London except sometimes it took like 3 hours.

Anyway just go to

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2696814606_b971d8d245.jpg

That frog is wearing a top hat and tails - it's a classy joint!

i've done cheap and pricey in my time and there really is no rhyme or reason to the quality you'll receive, even with (what you'd effing bloody well think were) classical standard mens styles. you just have to find someone who "gets it" as it were.

another thing is that the mark of a truly great haircut is that it will grow out very well, which is a strongly mitigating factor should it happen to have been expensive. (although luckily mine's a tenner now so i can treat myself monthly).

agree with all this...mind you i find mine grows out less well as the front is slowly ceasing to grow. not majorly receded yet but it is noticeable in terms of growing out.

xp don't knock it, that's a good haircut!

haha no, its a weird perk of where i work.