Thread: Professional Barber Shaves-Squawkbox

I just yesterday afternoon stopped by our neighborhood Rooster's, where I've been getting haircuts for a while now, and let them give me shave as well. It was educational (and fantastic!)

After my cut and wash was done, Anita put a wet towel over my eyes and another wrapped around my face. This was the first of three or four hot towels my face was treated to. Pre-shave oil, some sort of shaving cream applied by hand and I could tell she was taking a lot of time to map out my beard growth pattern or was just giving me a fantastic facial massage. Probably a bit of both.

She shaved me with a cartridge-type razor and made at least two passes, checking her work with her hands as she went. My neck is especially problematic for me but it was for her as well, and some of the bits that I just absolutely can't get BBS no matter how hard I try were still a bit rough when she was finally done too.

More hot towels followed, as did some aftershave cologne, then a moisturizer of some sort that really hung with me for a long while, and a cold towel in there too near the end. Rooster's calls it a 7-step shave and I honestly wasn't counting. I almost fell asleep several times it was so relaxing & restful. When she sat me up at the end, she commented that I had a really coarse beard, which I had suspected but thought it was unlikely to be true and was probably just something I was doing wrong in my honing technique that kept dulling razors. Maybe not. I'll have to read up more around here on how to deal with coarse, tough beards.

So while I would have preferred a shave with a straight, I thoroughly enjoyed every other aspect of having my face shaved by a trained barber. I'd recommend the experience to anyone who has $30 and a Rooster's nearby, or to anyone who doesn't have access to a good barber who still believes in straight razors.

Enjoyable experience, bad shave.

I have been looking for a place for a straight shave in okc. I heard about a place on north may but have heard it was unfriendly I will check it out myself soon. My son took me to a barber shop in the Asian district called hanks, best haircut I have had in years. The barber touched up my neck with a straight. They also do shaves but I had just shaved.he also trimmed my goatee with the cut. Cut cost $11.00, shave $9.00. $20.00 for a cut and shave is what I'm going to do when my hair gets long again.

I visited a barbershop one town over from me after seeing an ad from them saying they gave straight razor shaves. What I got was one of those disposable shavette things. The picture in the ad even showed a real straight razor so when I asked them why they were using a shavette they tried telling me it was the same thing.....needless to say im not going back. If a barber tries to pass off a disposable as a straight then hes either lying or off his rocker.

I've been 'on the road' for almost a month and my goatee was scraggly and lopsided plus I needed a haircut. Turns out there is an excellent barbershop in Singapore called "The Hounds of Baskerville". THere was a short wait, which I didn't mind. The whole place has the look and feel of what your man-cave and the locals, both customers and staff, are garrolous and animated.

The finest taxi driver in the world is a gentleman named "Kuldip Singh Mann" Cool Dip has on many occasions advised me to never let a Chinese touch my beard, as only Indians truly understand how to trim a beard. "And it just so happens I know an excellent barber just down the road from your plant in Malaysia, sir!"

Nevertheless, I let the barber have at. I give him a solid "A". The whole experience was entirely satisfactory, especially considering how long I have been away from wife, kids, dogs, smoked brisket, and my workbench and how oh-so-very-grumpy that makes me.

Two observations. First, his razor didn't seem any sharper than mine. I felt good about that. Second, my technique resembles, more or less, a window washer with a squeegee. He, on the other hand, would stretch a patch between thumb and forefinger and 'scrub scrub scrub'. I'll go back next time I'm here.

Warning: they only take the local credit card (netpay) or cash.