Let’s just start here: why is it that every time someone drops eighty bucks on a so-called “precision short cut,” they end up blowing even more on some Frankenstein collection of styling goop? I swear, nobody warns you about this stuff. Clients ask me all the time—do barbers actually help people save money with short […]

That soft hum from cheap clippers? Sounds innocent, right? Until it’s suddenly yanking out hair and someone’s yelling at me, “Why is it pulling?”—happens all the time. Cheap clippers? Honestly, they’re a wallet trap. They break, jam, dull out fast, and then, what, I’m buying a new one every few months? Seen it a thousand […]

Cutting my hair short? Yeah, that always felt like an act of self-sabotage—one wrong snip and suddenly I’m supposed to have thicker hair, or it’ll grow back in a week? Sure, and if I believed every time someone told me, “Short hair grows back faster!” I’d have a private espresso machine by now. These short […]

So, yeah, buzzed my head again last night. Same clippers, same bathroom, same optimism. Next morning, daylight hits the mirror and—yep—wonky patch, right where I can’t even see it unless I do some Cirque du Soleil contortion. Why does no one warn you about this? Barbers must have eyes like falcons because they always clock […]

Okay, let’s just say it: nothing quite wrecks my day like that moment after the cape comes off and I’m staring at myself, trying to act like I don’t hate what just happened to my head. I swear stylists can sense the panic before I even open my mouth—like, do they teach this in beauty […]

Okay, so why does everyone suddenly act like razor cuts are this mysterious club? I mean, I get the questions constantly. After years stuck behind the chair, I’ll just say it: barbers can spot that razor edge and texture from across the street, and regrowth exposes everything—how you got cut, what tool was used, even […]

Why is everyone suddenly whispering about invisible layers? Not even kidding—every other day someone asks if they should “try fading layers,” like it’s this underground club for people who hate obvious haircuts. And yet, nobody’s out here begging for those chunky, blocky layers from, what, 2007? Stylists—plus that random friend who “almost went to beauty […]