So I came here to get a haircut from a place that's much closer to where I live. I tend to get my haircuts from Long Island City around the same price as this place ($35). The haircuts are more on the higher side of prices compared to your average barber shop so expect the barber to have more experience on his belt. From my experience with these higher end barbershops, things tend to go very well. Anyways, I decided to give this place a try and I kinda regret doing so.
Looks: The front of store and the inside of store looks nice. When you sit on the barber chair and take a closer look, you can see that the shelfs, towels and certain areas on the wall to be dirty with hair and grime left over after a couple of days? Not sure. I do expect some hair to be here or there, but it was a bit more than usual.
Barber: The barber who attended me was a European guy. When we first greeted one another, it was bleh. The guy seemed a bit lazy to me and mostly accounts as to why I'm giving this place a low review. I'm not picky and I'm very forgivable about certain situations but if you disappoint me too many times, it'll leave me sour.
Anyways the greeting was bad. He was sitting, got up and walked to the chair. Most barbers I've met tend to give me a friendly greeting or hand shake the moment we met. Anyways, sat down and finally said hey. Asked me what I want and I told him what I tend to like. Asked him for his opinion and he just told me the same thing I told him. Was hoping he'll have a more out of the box thinking. Hair cut time came and he proceeded to cut my hair. Boy was that painful. The pain from getting both sides of my hair pulled lasted for quite a bit after the haircut was done. He did ask me if it hurts, I told him it did. He didn't really make any effort to fix the machine much. Just did things a bit slower. Small pains from there on out, just decided to deal with it. Haircut felt rushed.
The conversation between us was small but i enjoy small talk. Nothing bad there though it was bleh. It felt like he was talking down to me as if I wasn't worthy for him. What annoyed me the most about my time with him was the gum popping. Boy was that annoying. Pop Pop Pop. Jeez, have some courtesy. Some find that irritating when done near someone ear. I don't know but the whole experience with this guy was pretty bleh. The guy next to me was much better than the one I had. This place is nice and all, but i felt like I got the short end of the stick and got the guy who just left me sour.
The haircut was bleh as I told him not to cut at a certain area due to my hairline. I wanted something corrected but after going through all of this, I just wanted to get out. Payed the lady at the counter. I found it funny looking at her phone and seeing a video of herself vaping. Music was a bit on the heavy side.
Overall, I had plenty of haircuts at ($35) that went lovely. But this felt more of a ($15) experience because of the pain I endured, the gum chewing, getting a weird bleh vibe from the barber and his laziness into making things better. read more