Thread: Shaving others as a career?!!!

Does anyone know what qualifications you need in the uk to be able to start up shaving customers professionally. I'm getting very interested in it as a future thing!! I'm talking just shaving, not complete barbering.

You would probably need to be certified as a barber to be able to do that professionally.

In the U.S you need a barbering license which is issued by each state which requires graduation from a barbering college and passing a test. Also you can't use a straight. You have to use a desposable.

yeah i thought so, i wouldn't use a disposable to de fluff a jumper let alone on my own face, let alone on SOMEONE ELSES!!!!! Hi sir, how would you like your face today, rough and red?,, step right up!!

There may be a way round this: have all your customers buy there own razor and restrict its use to its owner only.

All these regulations on disposables only are a matter of hygiene. I have once read about hepatitis C being spread by an Italian barber who used the same straight for all his customers. In the Netherlands rich customers have always had their own razors at their barbers'. Only the poor were shaved with a "multi-customer" razor.

You can also use the AC. It looks like a straight, is extremely sharp, shaves well and is tough enough to be autoclaved for sterilization.

I just really think it would be great to set up a little barber shop in my town that does high quality shaves, you know the works, so the world can see how great it is, and gillette and wilkinson sword will bow down to us!!

I can't see there being any courses that teach purely straight razor technique though. Hey maybe there's a market for that too!! mmmm interesting!

Here's the best way to learn... Lather up a balloon. If you can shave all the lather from it without puncturing it, you're ready to shave people.

POP !

shaving cream all over the place...must continue trying after I wipe up.

Originally Posted by Bear

POP !

shaving cream all over the place...must continue trying after I wipe up.

Negative reinforcement works