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5 things you shouldn’t say to your hairdresser

When you sit down at the salon, here are five things you shouldn’t say to your hairdresser. It’s not about sparing your stylist’s feelings, but avoiding situations that could be disastrous for your hair. I may have made one (or all) of these mistakes in the past, so learn from my experience to improve your...Read More »

Geometry Of The Perfect Haircut: We Ran The Numbers. Now Bring On The Scissors.

Match your hair style to your head shape for the perfect look.

5 Tips For Choosing The Right Massage Therapist For You

5 Tips For Choosing The Right Massage Therapist For You

How to Tell Your Barber How to Cut Your Hair

For most guys who aren’t barbers, it can be tough to describe how we want our haircut. If you’re the kind of guy who has trouble articulating the type of haircut you really want, here are a few mens haircut terms that you can use. Mens Haircut Terminology Arch – The arch is the area …

Jewelry For Men: How to Wear It

How to wear jewelry if you're a man. Really not much to it.

Grooming the Groom: Men's Wedding Haircut and Styling Tips

Men need wedding hairstyling too. Here's how to go about it—and when.

How to Talk To Your Barber

Insider tips to ensure you get the haircut you actually wanted when you walked in the door.

How barbers could help lower blood pressure

Providing blood pressure monitoring and health services in black-owned barbershops resulted in significant blood pressure reductions among customers, according to a new study.

Can barbershops become safe spaces for Black men to talk about mental health?

COVID-19 has brought mental health front and center, especially in the Black community. A major hospital in Arkansas just got a multi-million-dollar grant to go into barbershops and talk to Black m…

How barber shops around the country are helping to reduce mental health stigma

After his own experiences grappling with depression and anxiety, Lorenzo Lewis wanted to help Black men and boys with their mental health.

5 black barbers on why barbershops are sacred spaces

Exploring the significance of the black barbershop, in photos and interviews.

Black Men and Mental Illness Can Be a Barbershop Conversation, Too

Barbershops are where brothers talk about almost everything. One subject, however, seems to be taboo, and it's an important one that needs much more exposure in the Black community: mental health. We revisit this informative and insightful October 2015 article on World Mental Health Day, October 10.

You Can Wash Your Hair With Beer at Birds Barbe...

If you've ever visited a Birds Barbershop in Austin, then you're well aware of their free-beer-with-haircut policy. Well, now you can drink a cold beer and wash your hair with it. Why would you do such a thing? Well, according to experts, the proteins in a

We lose more than just haircuts when barbershops and salons are closed

The temporary loss of barbershops and salons goes much deeper than appearances.

Barbershops taking blood pressure sustains positive results

A barbershop program that successfully helped black men lower their blood pressure is proving to have long-lasting benefits.

I Miss My Black Barbershop

Barbershop Books is using barbershops to inspire young black boys to read

It's easy to give someone a book. It's a lot harder to help transform someone into a reader.