I’m a man. I have sideburns. Since I was 14, I never went a day without them. If I did I would undoubtedly feel like a young child and lose any respect people might have once held for me.
Every time I have ever gotten a haircut, the exact same thing happens to me. They ask if they can trim my sideburns which I almost always refuse. Hell, I know I can do it better at home. Then they will ask to at least even them out and I say “ok”. What could be the harm in that? They are trained professionals. Their eyes are better than my own in that kind of situation. Yet every single time, they cut my sideburns at some dumb inverted angle. Just like I’m some kind of Jersey beach ghetto thug all star douche bag. I have to go home and even that shit out so I can look like a normal human again.
I always thought it was because I went to Fantastic Sam’s. (For those of you who don’t know, it’s a cheap generic hair cut chain). I switched to an old school barber about a year ago. He does the same fucking thing. What gives? Is there some secret code that all barbers follow? All I can think of is that everyone who cuts hair was somehow mesmerized by Captain Kirk’s Star Fleet mandated futuristic sideburns and now it is implanted deep in their subconscious somehwere.
Does anyone else have this issue?
Go to Doug cullen…On russell Road across from the Hebrew academy…..He likes to drink and he has CACTIIIII all over his place…..He is about as old school as it gets and you will get a great convo….
haha, you’re not alone. Back in the day when I got my hair cut at chain places they always did that slanty thing. Weird.
[...] Shaving + Women At Work Word of the wise, because sadly I’ve made this mistake more than once. I was in the process of growing a beard…soon to be of the civil war variety. I was a good 3 or so months into it and wanted to trim it down as I was beginning to look like a Jewish Rabbi in training. I had the clippers set to “5″ and (as you can imagine) had to clean out their hair quite frequently. When I did, I neglected to realize the clippers would be defaulted to a “1″ i.e. as close a shave as you can get. I than proceeded and next thing I knew, on the side of my face I could see flesh. The only way I could salvage it was to trim it into a lame ass goatee and sideburns. [...]