KillerPups
All Star
70k cash under the table is good money
Aint no way i could be a barber this day and age with nikkas complaining about prices
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murksiderock
Superstar
Oh they out here, bro. I got a rotating visitation list of 4 different barbers. At least one of em for sure, calls a lineup a "cut", it's like $25 for the line, I think...I’ve never seen barbers in my 43 years on this earth charge the same for a lineup as they do a full cut
This is where the complaints are coming from. For years now it's gotten egregious with these barbers and their pricing. It's ridiculous. I've paid $70 or $75 in Sacramento last year. Here in Raleigh it generally is $40 or $50. When I feel like it I make the drive to this old man in Fayetteville for $25...
All the complaints are valid. These nikkas spend more time on they phones, whether on calls or texting, or talking and bullshytting, or taking breaks mid-cut to go run outside or do something else. Just too much extracurricular shyt and these nikkas want to charge $50, and they do be trying to sell you everything at flat rates...
I can't cut my own hair so I keep shopping til I find a reasonable barber at a reasonable rate, but I'm bout sick of these nikkas, the antics, tge rates, all of it. Don't talk to me while you cutting my hair, I just wanna get in and get out, I'm not here to fukking politic. .
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
Been cutting my own shyt for ages
fukk I look like paying $100 for a cut?
I'd rather cop another Andis and add to my collection
fukk I look like paying $100 for a cut?
I'd rather cop another Andis and add to my collection
seymour cake
All Star
If you a nice barber you always gonna have motion no matter what u charge.. these days the ones thats making 100 per cut is da ones that be giving out the facials with the haircut, it seem like thats the new wave now ..
I say $30-$40 is reasonable these days for grown ups $20 for kids.. you cut about two to three heads per hour plus tips thats over $100 per hour.. thats not bad at all..
nikkas would pay whatever long as the cut fresh.
I say $30-$40 is reasonable these days for grown ups $20 for kids.. you cut about two to three heads per hour plus tips thats over $100 per hour.. thats not bad at all..
nikkas would pay whatever long as the cut fresh.
Oldschooler
All Star
My issue is that the low end barbers who used to rely on volume, a quick in and out, are now turning into bytches and trying to 'upscale' their business and clientele. Not everyone is meant to be a high end barber and not everyone needs a high end cut every 2 to 3 week. I'm happy to account for inflation and give someone $30 all in. Feels like haircuts went from being $10,15,20 to $50 in a very short span of time. Over the last 15 years.
I'm all for brothers making money but it's not exactly a high skill profession with high barriers of entry, especially for men's hair. It's not hard to run a line up and a fade. On top of all this it's a profession where a tip is religiously expected and a lot take cash only so they don't report their income. Making $70k and not paying taxes is like making $100k and paying taxes. If haircuts in my city go $60-$70, I'm not tipping no more or cutting my own shyt.
I'm all for brothers making money but it's not exactly a high skill profession with high barriers of entry, especially for men's hair. It's not hard to run a line up and a fade. On top of all this it's a profession where a tip is religiously expected and a lot take cash only so they don't report their income. Making $70k and not paying taxes is like making $100k and paying taxes. If haircuts in my city go $60-$70, I'm not tipping no more or cutting my own shyt.
... i went to a low-budget dentist out of desparation once . .. this guy had a catfish moustache and took a newport break halfway through the root-canal .. . . came back in and im tasting stale peppermint patty tobacco logs through the latex . .. then the file breaks down in the one root . .. . was told i went over my time and have to come back tomorrow . .. . the stud bytch had no mercy . . .. i got no novocaine . . she told me i need to be a man . . . so i got my root-canal finished with no numb .. . . . . . i think it permanently gave me an irregular heartbeat . .. .
murksiderock
Superstar
this is the issue. It ran up from $10-15 cuts 15 years or so ago, to $50+, like triple the price in less than 15 years...And like @seymour cake just said they coming with these packages nobody asked for, like since when is the line by itself $20-25, then a regular Caesar or light fade takes it up to $50?
I ain't mad at nikkas getting money either, but make it make sense. It absolutely ain't a high skill profession and these mf's be on all kinda extracurricular shyt when they cutting you up...
I got the inflation thing to, so $30 is reasonable, but anything over that for a regular cut, is bullshyt. And it's ALOT of these mf's, I'd say most, charging well over $30 now. Out my rotation only the old man in Fayetteville is under that. Everybody else is $40 plus now...
Also on the sneak, the QUALITY and SKILL of these nikkas is worse now, on aggregate. They not nice the way I feel like they were in the past, where a nikka be super crisp every time I leave the chair. Nowadays, I can get hooked up good but it seems like most the time the taper is a little off on one side, or the line is slightly uneven, or they didn't trim the beard right, etc. These nikkas have gotten more expensive, but more catty and less skilled...
And again don't talk to me while you cutting me up, I don't wanna talk. Just do your job and get me outta here
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Ricky Fontaine
Superstar
Y'all may roast me for this but if you live in a big city, find a Mexican barbershop.
If your haircuts are relatively straightforward and not too fancy (bald/shadow fade, taper fade).
You may have to endure a couple of wack lineups, but once you find one that actually cuts black people hair frequently, that shyt will be hella crisp and they'll trim your beard and that price will stay $25 for everything til the sun go out.
If your haircuts are relatively straightforward and not too fancy (bald/shadow fade, taper fade).
You may have to endure a couple of wack lineups, but once you find one that actually cuts black people hair frequently, that shyt will be hella crisp and they'll trim your beard and that price will stay $25 for everything til the sun go out.
darealvelle
Real Talk
A lot of black men in Atlanta are now going to Dominican and Ricans shops now because they are cheaper and more professional and of course they know how to cut our hair. These black barbers are just taking advantage of the professional black male clientele that need a cut every two weeks because they work a corporate office gig and they have to look presentable at all times.