The links listed here point to just a few good short hair sites that are
suitable to a general audience.
Hair related sites
Barbering and Balding
in Oz - A new Australia haircut site, created by the same web page
designer who also created the site for Errol's Barbery (which is listed
below under "on-line barber shops". This site is just starting, and
it's list of contents shows that the webmaster has some ideas for developing
the site. The site includes some photos and some computer-adjusted
haircut pictures.
Flattops on the
Web - A site that contains photos and reference information about flattop
styles.
Greg's
Barbershop - This is a good site for pictures of a number of non-traditional
styles, such as mohawks and less traditional buzzcuts.
The Haircut Site - This is a haircut
entertainment site. Updated reguarly every Saturday morning, the site contains
photos, a weekly story (often in a serial form, with a new chapter each
week), an extensive page of links to other sites, a message board and more.
The Head Room - A site dedicated
to black hair care. Includes a large listing of, primarily of salons,
that specialize in black hair. Link
added Mar. 27,1999
House of Wyatt
- This is a well-presented site that contains a large gallery of haircut
photos.
Men's Hair Club Media
Listing - This site may not be suitable to all audiences. However,
it contains excellent reference material about cuts, books, barbershops,
haircutting (and other) videos and links.
Men's
Haircuts - Short, Shorter, Shortest! - A site devoted to discussion,
stories, and conversation about men's short haircuts. This site offers
a chat room. While some other chat room sites have been experiencing problems
with people posting messages using other people's names, this new site
has added security features to help overcome that problem. A message board
is also offered on this site.
Instructional videotape sites
Clippercuts - Here's a new site
from the producers of the "Flattops Done Right" videotape that was reviewed
on Buzztown in March 1997. The site features Funk and Futrell's other
instructional videotapes.
Scerbo Video Productions
- This is the site of one of the main contributors of photos to the Buzztown
site. Scerbo Video Productions has three videotapes available - one showing
techniques for cutting designs and logos in hair, using electric clippers
and two tapes showing techniques for cutting different clipper-cut styles.
The Scerbo Video Productions home page shows details of all the tapes,
including photos, to give you an idea about the tape. Also check back at
the Buzztown Site for reviews of the Scerbo tapes.
On-line barber shops
The Barber Shop
- A barber shop in Springfield, Missouri with a nicely presented web site
introducing their staff and giving some backgroup to the shop..
Bobs Barber Shop - A
family salon with a separate men's salon in Southern California. Bob's
page shows a few pictures of some different styles and has a couple of
hairstyle definitions too.
Bethel Road Barber Shop - A barber
shop in Dallas, Texas with a nicely presented home page that describes
the shop and the types of styles that you can get there.
City Barber
Shop of Littlefield,Texas is a single page web-site for another Texas
shop. The site has some other barber-related links (including Buzztown)
Link added Mar. 27,1999
Den's Barber Shop - A barber shop
in Shaffers Crossing, Colorado that plans to add a camera inside the shop
to provide photos every few minutes showing what it going on inside the
shop.
Errol's Barbery
- This Australian barber shop has been listed on Buzztown for some time
now. It's sounds like a fascinating shop, and you should check out
the details in the Barber Shop Listing if you
haven't already. Now Errol's shop is on-line with some haircut photos
and details of many things, including fishing, barber antiques, and men's
toiletries. The pages are big and take a while to load with a slower
Internet connection, but they are very nicely designed. Check it
out.
Frenchie the Barber "Old Tyme" Barbershops
is a interesting shop site, with a cigar page too. Frenchie the Barber
is located in Montclair, New Jersey. Link
added Mar. 27,1999
Laswells Barber Shop in Speedway, Indiana has two web pages worth looking
at. Both sites include several photos of this shop's work - especially
younger customers. The links to the two sites are:
Gents Professional
Barbers - Single page home page for a barber shop in Springfield, Virginia.
Link added Mar. 27,1999
Paul's Old Tyme Barber Shop
- Remember back in the old days when you read an old magazine while you
waited for your turn at the barber shop. Well Paul's Old Tyme Barber Shop
offers a not so old-time alternative. This shop provides Internet access,
so that customers can surf the web while they wait. Paul's Old Tyme Barber
Shop also has a very nicely presented website. From the photos on the website,
the interior of this barber shop (in Petersborough, Ontario) looks equally
well presented. (Thanks to Paul's Old Tyme Barber Shop for sending in details
of their website.)
Rob's Chop Shop - A detailed
web page for this barber shop in Dallas, Texas. This shop sell's
its own brand of pomade too - Rob's Chop Shop Grease Link
added Mar. 27,1999
Tan's Barbers - A shop
in Laurel, Maryland with a very professional looking web-site. Link
added Mar. 27,1999
Toby's Barber Shop and Tanning Salon
- A website for a barber shop in Lexington Park, Maryland. Toby's provide
both regular and military cuts, and offer a discount to members of the
military. Check out their page of celebrity customers too (although you
need to read the disclaimer at the bottom of the celebrity page). Toby's
also offer five suntanning beds and skin care products. This is a good
site to check out - very professional and classy. The site also shows a
series of aviation photos. This site includes a series of flattop
photos, and the shop now has a web-camera. Link
last updated Mar. 27,1999
Wild Bill's - This is an on-line
barber shop with a web-cam that shows what's happening in the chair.
The picture is refreshed once every 60 seconds. You will soon notice
how fast Wild Bill is. There are two different web-cam pages - one
with Java and one without for those viewers who have browser problems with
the Java version. Several readers have recommended Wild Bill's website.
Barber product sites
Andis have a very nicely presented site,
with plenty of information about their range of clippers (and other products).
Check out the cool little animated flattop graphic on their home page.
The Wahl Professional site provides
information about the complete range of Wahl clippers, accessories, and
maintenance and repair services.
Barber's and styles in the news and in print
No clip
joint, this barbershop museum is an article on the excellent Nando
Times travel server. (If you haven't checked out the Nando on-line news
service - The News and Observer Times
- it is definitely worth a look.) The article mentioned here is about a
barber shop museum in Canal Winchester, Ohio.
Loving a Barber by
Tony Villanueva is a short discussion about men and barber shops
More
Than a Shave and Haircut - An article about some barber shops in small
Texas towns, near the A&M university. An interesting article
looking at a part of the world where barber shops are still highly popular
and apparently plentiful too. Link
added Mar. 27,1999
Best
Barber is the Tucson Weekly newspaper's 1998 nomination for the best
barber in Tucson, Arizona. Link
added Mar. 27,1999
Barber
Has Cut Hair for 50 Happy Years is a 1997 article about a barber in
Saratoga, California. Like most articles of this type, it's another
testimonial that barbering really is a career with high job satisfcation.
Link added Mar. 27,1999
The Barber Shops
- 1940s to 60s is a reminiscing commentary on a personal web-site about
small town barber shops in a North Carolina town in the 1940s to the 1960s.
Link added Mar. 27,1999
Sailor Enjoys Cutting
Hair is a short article on the U.S. Navy's web-site about a sailor
on board USS Boxer who provided haircuts to his fellow shipmates.
This article is a few years old, as it indicates that the sailor was planning
on starting a barber shop after his enlistment was due to end in 1997
Link added Mar. 27,1999
On the Cutting
Edge is another interesting article about the popularity of traditional
barber shops today. Who said that the old-fashioned barber shop was
a thing of the past. As many of these articles suggest, it's not
just the superior cutting at barber shops that makes them popular - it's
the atmosphere too. Link added
Mar. 27,1999
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