Lads - A Decent Irish Haridressers

Undercoverguy

Okay guys i'm 19, gay and a bloody big self confessed metrosexual!

For like the last two years i'm always gotten my hair highlighted and cut in a local unisex hair salon but last month the girl i normally get moved outside Dublin and also to another job leaving my stuck for a new place. I ended up trying another fairly decent looking place near where i live. I got a polish girl (no problem there) who couldnt really understand me (problem here) which made me wanna leave but eventually another polish staff member translated everything, assured me all was well and away she went.... The end result was a DISASTER!!

My hair is naturally blonde but i get white blonde cap highlights, and a longish cut,
but this place somehow managed to turn my hair ginger.... YES GINGER HIGHLIGHTS! With less than 4 Weeks to Christmas i wasnt all too impressed, I caused uproar and left without paying.
The offered to 'fix' but i wasnt letting them near me and instead i went to a barbers, got a short cut and lived under a hat since! lol

So now over a 9/10 weeks on and my hair is long and less ginger looking
Time to get it back to normal!

Anyone know a decent bloke place that does highlighting and stuff?
No disrespect to any non-nationals.... but somewhere with Irish staff?

I thought i'd ask on here before asking some random 16 year old with a mullet lol

Cheers Guys

pinklady2

I can recommend cats Grafton Street not exclusive for men..;)

Deflector

Don't mean to hijack OP, but similar topic.
I know there's loads of threads on barbers doing what they like to your head, but never was I more in awe of the indisputable ignorance I experienced in The Grafton Barber during the week.

Went in looking for something a little different (for me) but simple: a decent choppy layer cut with a bit of texture - apparently it's mainly done with a nifty hand and a razor, cutting to different lengths. A pretty basic cut in the barber's repertoire.

Like this:




This is precisely what I asked for, and suggested how it might be done. Yet even as I was saying it, the barber clearly wasn't listening to a word that was coming out of my mouth. After I'd finished his reply was "what blade do ya want", and proceeded to a standard blade-on-the-sides cut-on-top job. I was actually so bowled over at the ignorance of this guy (otherwise nice and chatty) that I just sat there like a gibbering goldfish out of water.

Now I'm pretty shy, and feel like an utter prat asking for my hair to be styled such and such, so yes it's my own fault for letting it go, but can anyone recommend a barber that a) understands basic cut terminology and b) actually listens to what you say?

To be honest I find it extraordinary that someone would even want to work in barbering unless they had a passion for pleasing their clients and understanding what they want.

microgirl

My cousin has a salon in Temple Bar, and the girl working for him is apparently an excellent colorist. I don't get my hair coloured, so can't really speak for that, but she can certainly cut hair well - she generally gives me a better cut than my cousin does!

Anyway, I've no idea what they're like for guys, but I've seen several guys there, and my cousin is the most stereotypical male hairdresser in the world ever (gay as Christmas and then some!) so presumably he'd have a bit of cop-on regarding a guy's hair

Anyway, in case you're interested it's The Room, downstairs in the same building as Cafe Erie and Sé-Sí on Fownes St (behind Trastevere restaurant). My cousin is Colm, the owner, and the girl's name is Orla. There's another guy there called John, but I've never had my hair cut by him so don't know what he's like.

speedboatchase

House of Colour on Abbey Street sorted me out. But you have to pay to cut any sort of decent cut, all the horror stories on this board come from barbers