Nice Work. Metro article about the rise of authentic ,cool barbershops and tattoo parlours , leads off with a bit of Glen Eden Barber Heritage and G.E.’s Eight One Eight Barbers. Love the graffiti wall. Authentic, working class suburbs are the new cool. Shhh.
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The Return of Hairy Men
The striped pole signifies an age-old trade, but the second coming of the barber shop — and the attention to male hair it signifies — is far more likely to involve hipsters, sports stars and ultra-trendy beards.
This story was first published in the January 2015 issue of Metro. Photos of Flash City, Ponsonby, by Josh Griggs.
At the railway crossing at Glen Eden, a local history board lists a barber shop as one of the first businesses in the fledgling 1886 settlement. Today, directly across the road is Eight One Eight Barbers, a plain white space with one large hip-hop graffiti piece on the wall and Sanctify Tattoo Studio out the back.”
“Part of what’s happening around the world is the steady rise of a cool-as “barber culture”, which creates men’s spaces, takes in men’s grooming and is closely associated with tattooing.” Full Story on Metro Here.