Where’s my head?

Writing by aj@lecraic on Thursday, 3 of July , 2008 at 10:15 am

I need my hair trimmed. Anyone other than myself would look at my hair and think “what’s he on about, he’s hardly captain caveman as it is”. This may be true, but I like how light I feel after getting a trim. I’m not obsessed about my hair or anything, I just like it to be neat. The concept of having a bad hair day is alien to me as I’m sure it is for most men. 15 to 20 minutes in the barbers every 3 to 4 weeks with (preferably) zero chat from the barber is hair grooming nirvana.

This isn’t the reason for my posting though. Since that part of my brain (the reticular activating system bit) is now telling me to get a haircut, I’m noticing all sorts of barbery related things, like:

• What a recession proof business model it is
• Virtually zero outlay on stock
• How the mullet seems to be coming back in to fashion
• The funny and clever names of some barber shops

Just this evening over a cup of tea I saw an ad for a new barbers in Greystones. The name : Sweeney Todd. Clever or what? Actually, there are one or two more with the same name dotted around the country. It must be great fun coming up with names for a barber. In Wicklow Town we have:

Mustdash, The Rebel Barber (he’s from Cork), Mick’s Barbers, Eoin’s Barbers and Carlos the Clipper. None of those names a particularly clever. I like Carlos the Clipper myself though.

I hit the goldenpages (as you do) to see if there were any good barber or unisex salon names in the book like Sweeney Todd. There’s not a whole lot of imagination in there but here’s a few that got my attention for various reasons:

• Ye Olde Baber Shoppe
• For Fir
• Bazzers
• A-Nu-U by Beverly (hmm)
• Busy Blades
• De Barbers (niiice – it’s in Cork)
• The Baldy Barber
• Boyz 2 Men
• Cru’cuts Barbers
• Just in for a Haircut (as opposed to what now?)
• Lord Snooty’s
• The Men’s Room (least it’s not the little boy’s room)
• Mr. Jose Gonzalez (Speedy Gonzalez came into my head - ariba ariba)
• Fat Tony’s Barber Shop (you’ll sleep with de fishes)
• Sizzers Hair Design
• and my personal favourite : Curl Up’n Dye (another Cork classic)

Any more good ones out there + to the lads (or the ladies) – what’s your hair maintenance routine like?

Header image photo by lecercle and modified under a cc license.

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