Wild Style-on

(first written 12-18-2006)

Remember 'Compare you Hair'? Remember 'That's Good Eats'? Well I'm going to combine them. I'm going to discuss the low and high ends of hair cuts. Salon vs. the Barber. Not a Barber shop; where Barbers work. The Barber. As was in the other comparing piece, I am excluding chain haircutters such as Supercuts. (My reasoning is that, with all chains, there is procedure to follow rather than the freedom of what the customer wants.)
I was just thinking about the quality of the two. At a salon, you are guaranteed to get a very good haircut. Unfortunately the cost of the haircuts can exceed 30 dollars. The better you want it, the more it will cost. But if you go to a barber, there is still a high quality as long as you don’t want anything too fancy and it will cost a maximum of 15 dollars.
The conversation level is quite low when getting a haircut because of problems that arise from moving the jaw, but the talking done in each place is fairly similar. They are kind to people that look friendly and condescending and stressed to people who look like they will cause trouble. Generally barbers own their shop and don’t want people messing it up, while people working for a salon are too snooty and judgmental.
The experience of the two are only slightly different. Here’s the thing: a barber will only cut your hair. They won’t mousse it, wash it, gel it, streak it, curl it, dye it, or anything of the sort. They have four tools: a comb, water, scissors, and a razor. And I guess you can add towels but those aren’t a necessity. Salons will do all of the things I mentioned above. And this is probably why it costs so much more.
In conclusion: your character is not in question when you decide to save $15 by going to a barber when all you want is a trim. Hell if you could do it yourself, you wouldn’t even pay the barber. You would only have to deal with the legal difficulties in acquiring a pair of scissors.
The end
-The Big Sleazy “keeping you from your child since 1999!”

Special features include video footage of Sam celebrating the end of this e-mail. He had the idea for this e-mail more than fifteen months ago. Watch as he gets wasted drinking a handle of Canada Dry; one shot at a time.