Anyone with Pompadours, Old School Haircuts

**SlickMike** · 01-17-2009, 12:32 PM

I have recently decided to resurrect my Greased Pompadour style. Anybody out there who sports this classic style?? I have had a really hard time finding a barber who knows how to create this style. I quit wearing it for awhile when my barber moved away and everyone I tried just couldn't get it right. The right cut is so crucial- don't get me wrong, you need a good pomade.. but a good barber is so hard to find.

**R-James** · 01-17-2009, 02:15 PM

I couldn't find a barber to cut mine in, and I am receeding at the front so I gave up and shaved my head!

**M. McCord** · 01-18-2009, 01:59 PM

If I could stand to let my hair grow, I'd opt for either a Clint Eastwood style ala Dirty Harry or a Conway Twitty style 'do. Course I think my wife would leave me.

**Abdiel** · 01-18-2009, 03:32 PM

I keep my hair short for both ease of maintenance and also because I am prone to dandruff. But, even the basic crew cut is hard to manage aparently.

I've lost count how many times I sat down and asked for a crew cut, only to end up with a brush, high and tight, or even just a basic buzz cut....and this after describing what I wanted.

High and tight is ok, I even wear it sometimes. Brush, eh, it'll grow out a bit and be ok. But I personally hate buzz cuts. Even more, I hate paying for them. If I just want a short, clipped, even length all the way around my head I could have bought clippers from wal mart.

Finding a good barber is so hard no matter the hair style. There are just so few of them in the world today. Most places, even calling themselves barber shops, are nothing more then unisex salons with stylists trained to give bad mens hair cuts.

**David in Boston** · 01-18-2009, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Abdiel

...Finding a good barber is so hard no matter the hair style. There are just so few of them in the world today. Most places, even calling themselves barber shops, are nothing more then unisex salons with stylists trained to give bad mens hair cuts.

Sad but true.

David

**Isaac** · 01-18-2009, 04:21 PM

Ive only received a good Pomp cut twice in my life in Tucson. Most Traditional Barbers just stare at me...or dont like to cut hair with grease in it..

**FLTiger** · 01-19-2009, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Abdiel

Finding a good barber is so hard no matter the hair style. There are just so few of them in the world today. Most places, even calling themselves barber shops, are nothing more then unisex salons with stylists trained to give bad mens hair cuts.

+1

QFT

Maybe you could spend a Saturday tooling around to some local barber shops, and find the oldest one still working.

I've given up on finding a barber that can cope with my enormous cowlick and just slick it down.

**moojuece** · 01-20-2009, 12:13 PM

I have a pompadour. Luckily there are 2 barbers in the Twin Cities who cut them. The barber shop just down the street from me is actually the shop most of the rockabillies and the like in this area go to.
I agree finding someone who knows what they are doing is pretty important. All of the barbers at the corner shop by me know how to do it, but some seem to get a bit annoyed dealing with greasy hair during a cut.

**SlickMike** · 01-23-2009, 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by moojuece

I have a pompadour. Luckily there are 2 barbers in the Twin Cities who cut them, but some seem to get a bit annoyed dealing with greasy hair during a cut.

You are very lucky to have at least 2 barbers who know how to give these cuts. Actually I think I have seen a video on youtube of one of those shops. It was a segment on the car club the Lucky Bastards and the name of the shop was Shmidty's.... I had one barber before he moved to Seattle that did a good job on the cut, but he would never take the time to to really sculpt it and get it all smoothed down and even though I washed it before I came in he would make comments sometimes about me leaving too much in.

I'm planning to go to Barber school soon and hope to someday find someone to teach me these cuts and I will specialize in the ols skool cuts and razor shaves

**moojuece** · 01-23-2009, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by SlickMike

You are very lucky to have at least 2 barbers who know how to give these cuts. Actually I think I have seen a video on youtube of one of those shops. It was a segment on the car club the Lucky Bastards and the name of the shop was Shmidty's....

Haha, yeah Schmidty's is the shop down the road from me. Pete cuts damn near every rockabilly's hair in the Twin Cities. Between him and John at Lakeville Barbers.
I remember when that Lucky Bastards documentary came out my wife had a good laugh at the section about doing your hair on there. I think she was a bit surprised to find that I wasn't the only one who had a cabinet full of different kinds of grease and a very precise ritual about his hair.

**SlickMike** · 01-24-2009, 08:56 AM

Cool. I think I have a show scheduled with my job in March in St Paul if I don't get layed off by then. Would like to go by and chat with him, I'm very interested in finding out where these guys learned to give these old cuts.. I know there not really taught in barber school. The guy that was doing mine, actually took a "Crew" course (the makers of mens Crew hair products) and they are teaching the Pompadour-both new school and old school. Yeah, my girl friend gets mad anytime I add more pomade to my collection, at last count I have about 8 tins in my medicine cabinet... I think I need to find me a display case!!

**Trudo1** · 01-25-2009, 12:54 PM

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**Vinny Bobo** · 01-25-2009, 08:26 PM

Yeah, I went to Hawleywood's Barber Shop for the first time last week and had a Psychobilly straight razor shave and haircut. It was a truly excellent experience! Betty Paige, Jonny Cash, and Carl Perkins along with Old School Hot Rod magazines and of course Girly mags, you can even enjoy a Pabst Blue Ribbon if you so desire. It's a Men Only zone which is refreshing in this overly-androgenous "modern" society. I'll be a regular customer here and I have Trudo to thank for the recommendation. Thanks Bro!

**PCFiend138** · 01-25-2009, 08:31 PM

i cut my mohawk into a devilock for my band and since nobody seems to appreciate it as much as fiends do i comb it into a pomp most of the time. i dont know of any barbers in austin who could help fine tune it or keep it though. if any body knows of any let me know and ill give em a shot.

**SRock** · 01-25-2009, 09:06 PM

My Grandpa wore his hair like this for a long time. Now he just wears a flat top.

**Clay** · 01-26-2009, 06:46 AM

I wear my hair old school. I gave up and learned how to cut my own hair. It takes longer, and I have to clean up my own mess, but it's free.

Find an old barber or a beauty school, or DIY.

Clay

**Confuzius** · 01-26-2009, 10:29 AM

I used to rock a pomp before I started receding and thinning (I'm only 26 :-( )
The best "barber" I ever found to do it was oddly enough a very effeminate Napoleon lookalike at a local salon.

I generally used Dax to keep it in check, but as that started to get tiresome, and my budget for new pillows was waning, I switched to a blow-dryer and copious amounts of hairspray.

**SlickMike** · 01-26-2009, 12:35 PM

Try Caseys barbershop or Avenue Barbershop. They are both in Austin and have Myspace pages.... They both specialize in pomps, ducktails, fades, just about any kinda cut and both cater alot to the old school styles.

Originally Posted by PCFiend138

i cut my mohawk into a devilock for my band and since nobody seems to appreciate it as much as fiends do i comb it into a pomp most of the time. i dont know of any barbers in austin who could help fine tune it or keep it though. if any body knows of any let me know and ill give em a shot.

**Suzuki** · 01-26-2009, 12:38 PM

Can't help, but understand completely why barbers don't like to cut hair with a ton of greasy pommade in it - it gums up the scissors and clippers something aweful.