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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 …

4 things every guy should tell his barber when he gets a haircut

Know exactly what to say the next time you sit down and the barber asks, "How are we cutting it today?"

How to Talk To Your Barber

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

4 Things To Tell Your Barber When You Get A Haircut

Next time you sit down and the barber asks, "how are we cutting it today?", know exactly what to say.

10 Men’s Hair Myths Debunked

From having to wash your hair every day to blaming your mother for making you go bald, here are the 10 most commonly believed hair myths and the scientific truth to set them straight.

Why Every Man Should Go To A Barber Shop

During the golden age for barber shops,the barber shop was a weekly habit, not only for a haircut and a perfect shave, but also to fraternize with friends.

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.

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.

Barbershop chairs become safe spaces, way to clear mind during stressful times

For many of us, it can feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders, especially with news of world conflicts available at our fingertips.

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.

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.

8 essential rules of barbershop etiquette

Rule number one: hand the tip to the barber, not the receptionist.

What Is Barbershop Therapy?

Barbers in the South are training as first responders to assist the men in their chairs with their mental health concerns.

Barber makes boys read aloud to him during haircuts to boost their self esteem

Jon Escueta pays his young customers $3 to read a book of their choice as he or one of his barbers cuts their hair. He wants to boost the boys' confidence, and bring them out of their shells