Thanks for the advise Jer, I�ll go to that barber shop you recommended. I have had some very bad experience in the past here with unisex hairdressers(Nicolas included) Pls all men, (with short hair, i mean) Don�t go there, the women who work there make you suffer!!!

I wonder if Silvija is alraedy living in Madrid.

Check the Bad Hair Day Link I looked up first.

I live around the corner from the Nicolas on Diego de Leon. Let me start by saying yes it is very cheap. However,...

Giving a short haircut to a guy is not difficult. Every time I went there no one knew how to use the electric shaver..Bad news. The last time I got my haircut there, this woman was using an electric shaver filled with hair! So the blades kept getting stuck in my hair and instead of getting a hair cut I received a hair pull. I told her to stop and she asked why and I said well listen either there's something wrong with my hair or it's how you're cutting it. Of course, I deeply offended her and she dropped the razor and just walked away, so I was left there in the chair until someone else realized that my former barber had given up.

Do not go there.

This is just amazing, I live around there too and I had exactly the same experience at Nicholas, it must have been the same girl.

I have now instantly added this establishment to the Places not to go in Madrid thread.

sounds like "Nicolas" may be a chick thang :y:

hey hilko (and Mike), you will love the cuchilleros barber shop!!!

i went on last friday for my yearly haircut, nearly had a damn fro going before i finally decided to chop it :jeje:

price has gone up and is now 9 euros for the cut but still a great deal. i am now once again DASHINGLY HANDSOME if i may say so myself (hope so since nobody else seems to say it).

Mike, at my place on cuchilleros they are pros with the clipper, they did not use it on me but there was a young spanish "chaval" there who was being cut before me and the owner (Rafa) of the barber shop was cutting his hair and using the clipper a lot. Rafa has been cutting men's hair for 40 years (or more).

as a plus, i have never seen a female customer in there last time (before the other day) i was in there, there was one woman haircutter and she cut my hair and did a great job. she was not in when i went the other day so i am not sure whether she still works there or not.

if you guys go, tell them that you were sent by "el americano melenas que va una vez al a�o para cortarse el pelo" :jeje:

saludos,
jer...

p.d. i just thought of something, is it really a good idea to go to a barber shop on a street named after "knife sharpeners"

hey, anyone looking for an english-speaking haircutter, i found this ad...

quote:

Can't get a great or even decent haircut in madrid? English hair stylist available for male and female cuts and colours. Direct from "Le Salon" in England now working privately. Contact Rebekah on 695 955 019.

wondering how good a job she does?

any guinnea pigs wannas go find out

saludos,
jer...

I'm studying in Girona at the moment, and although I could really do with a good trim (to say the least), me and my fellow Brits are absolutely terrified of...ahem...well, of ending up with Spanish hair!!

Sorry chicas, I know that fashions are different in every country and I don't mean any disrespect to the lovely Spanish girls, but really... At the moment the fear that asking for 'layers' might somehow translate into the classic 'short-on-top, long-at-the-back', 80s powermullet (and surely that must happen a lot, because I really can't bear to imagine that people might actually WANT hair like that!) is greater than the attraction of incredibly cheap haircuts and the appeal of being able to see where you're going again!

At times I feel slightly reassured by the glossy photos in the hairdressers' windows, and think about booking an appointment... But then I go to university and immediately change my mind again! Does anyone know whether the mullet is truly inevitable in Spain?! Because if it is, I'm gonna end up looking like Cousin It by the time I go home in summer!!!

Lauren xxx