Okay I need to vent a niggle.
It seems that everywhere I read on here people are commenting about how barbers are losing the art of doing straight shaves as they never do them, and tons of barber's won't use a straight/shavette etc.
(and maybe it's true outside of Ireland)
Okay now here, though you have to use a shavette for health and safety laws, MANY, MANY barber do straight razor shaves. In fact I would say 90% of barbershops in Ireland do them. Perhaps not every barber in the shop will but they will have someone who does and who will do them frequently enough.
In fact as I get close to graduating and start to look around at jobs advertised they nearly all say "must be able to do hot towel cut throat shaves" or some such phrasing.
Over here it seems seems to be very popular and the idea of the "barbershop" is still very much well and alive with there being equal amount of barbershops to salons in Dublin as far as I can see (they are often on the same street only a few shops apart). We have a huge amount of Turkish and Polish barbers in our shops too so maybe that helps things?
Okay.. rant over.
It seems that everywhere I read on here people are commenting about how barbers are losing the art of doing straight shaves as they never do them, and tons of barber's won't use a straight/shavette etc.
(and maybe it's true outside of Ireland)
Okay now here, though you have to use a shavette for health and safety laws, MANY, MANY barber do straight razor shaves. In fact I would say 90% of barbershops in Ireland do them. Perhaps not every barber in the shop will but they will have someone who does and who will do them frequently enough.
In fact as I get close to graduating and start to look around at jobs advertised they nearly all say "must be able to do hot towel cut throat shaves" or some such phrasing.
Over here it seems seems to be very popular and the idea of the "barbershop" is still very much well and alive with there being equal amount of barbershops to salons in Dublin as far as I can see (they are often on the same street only a few shops apart). We have a huge amount of Turkish and Polish barbers in our shops too so maybe that helps things?
Okay.. rant over.