Whitehall Barber Shop is definitely your small old fashioned barber shop with a couple guys churning out cheap haircuts, but honestly $12 is a little steep for what you get. My regular barber shop was booked solid and I needed a cut for a wedding, so I saw the 5 star Yelp rating and stopped by. It's one of those barber shack buildings, probably 20'X20', with walls covered in memorabilia. I don't get anything too fancy, but as any guy who has pattern balding will attest, you need your wings clipped from time to time. I let him know the top needed to be longer than the sides, and I decided to get a beard trim for an extra $6, thinking it would look better than I could do in the mirror.
To begin with, he was more interested in the western on TV than with my haircut, but since I was faced away from the mirror, I assumed he was doing a good job. When he started on my beard, he kept crouching down in front of me over and over again, like he hadn't done it before. When I finally saw it, he had gone way past the edges that I had already worked hard to maintain on my beard and it was really lopsided. I told him and he proceeded to take more off of the wrong side! At that point I just let him finish what he needed to and got out of there. In the end, he trimmed my beard much shorter than I told him to, made it lopsided, some how shaved a chunk of beard below the right side of my lip, didn't leave the top of my hair longer than the sides and made my hair look lopsided.
I would not recommend going to this place, and even if you live close. I'm sure the barber shop down the road offering $5 haircuts would do as good a job. read more