4 on the sides as well.
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I’m after giving myself another lovely haircut. I’m up about 70 quid at this stage.
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You’ve 70 quid and a head like a tennis ball.
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Championship haircut is what its all about. You’re at nothing going into the gaelic grounds tomorrow without it.
I got a lovely haircut in my preferred barbers at lunch time today - Blades on Foxes Row. I had a real pep in my step leaving there. I actually hadn’t been in there in over a year having been a regular there for a few years and even being a regular tipper at Christmas time and all. But after I walked in one day a year ago and there was a new member of staff there, a woman, I turned on my heels and walked out. I think I’ve mentioned here before I don’t let women cut my hair if I can avoid it. I’ve had too many butcher jobs off women, and what’s worse most of them interrogate you. So I said I’d chance them again today and when I pressed my face to the window and peered in I spotted a familiar face on his own cutting a fellas hair and there was no one in the waiting area. He is a fantastic barber and crucially doesn’t open his mouth outside of the initial questioning as to your instructions.
So I went in and sat down and started reading ‘The Star’ newspaper off the table. Within a minute and much to my chagrin a woman barber walked in from outside (presumably off the back of a break) and said “next” while looking at me, the sole punter in the waiting area. I was of course snookered so made my way to the cutting chair to await my fate. She asked me for my instructions and I decided to make it easy for her with “just tidy it up”. She had a distinctly Polish look and accent. We had a brief chat about the weather and much to my delight the chat didn’t continue from there and so as is my want in a barbers chair I was able to close my eyes during the entire process and try to doze off. I was at ease throughout and it actually felt like I was having an out of body experience where I drifted out of my body that was still in the chair getting serviced.
After about 10mins she was finished and I’d say it might be the best hair cut I ever got. The cost came to the princely sum of €19, but I handed her €20 and told her to keep the change, which she appeared delighted with it. I will go back there again now and hopefully get my Polish friend again, although the two lads working there are good too. A lovely plug for Blades on Foxes Bow here.
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You’re a special individual
19 euro for a haircut in Limerick is fairly saucy
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My usual place is Knights and thats around 16/17
It’s terrible money alright but the only thing with it is you are guaranteed a super haircut and more importantly super experience in there, and the prohibitive cost prevents you from sitting side by side in the waiting area with the dregs of society, like you’d get in the €10-12 outfits.
I was something of a nomad for the past year not knowing where my next haircut was coming from but they have me back now.
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Where is Knights? There aren’t too many in the €10-12 bracket in Limerick city and i had a very bad experience when i did go into that bracket.
On Catherine St, beside Mike O’Connell’s Menswear. It’s on the go a long time.
Oh yeah i know it, wouldn’t be too many dregs in there i’d say?
No its grand, the owner supports Glatasary so I always check to see how they are going before I pop in.
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I was under time pressure recently and got a €10 haircut in a place on Roches St. It looked every bit a €10 haircut.
I was down there for a few days last week and caught short and no joke i ended up in that ladies chair. Is she a blonde lady, attractive but no more than that?
She is a lovely little no frills polish lady who is clearly made for barbering and not hairdressing.
I actually had a bit of a connection with her i thought, her manner reminded me of a Czechoslovakian escort i know.
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This is incredible that we were cut by the very same lady in a short time frame, you described her to a tee there. I’d say she was Polish but you might be better with the regional Eastern bloc looks and accents than me? There’s something definitely attractive about her. And as you say, she’s a barber all day long and not a hairdresser. There was something admirably gruff about her that wouldn’t play well with women punters who i assume would want more tender attention.
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Its funny because she actually crossed my mind there during the week. She left an impression on me. There was a young halfwit sweeping up and she was half guffawing at him. She has a great way about her.
Figaro on Bedford Row is 20+ IIRC
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That’s a kind of hipster place is my impression looking in from the outside.