Barbers/hair salons
Tucson’s Barber Shop
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To start, let me tell you about my experience at Tucson’s Barber shop. Amador Tucson, the owner, cut my hair there twice, with satisfactory results. Of great annoyance to me, however, was his practice of talking on the phone with his wife for almost the entire duration of the hair cut on both occasions that I visited him. For that reason I’ll only give him one star and recommend that nobody else bother letting *HIM* cut their hair.
Amador Tucson gave me a decent haircut here while talking on the phone almost the entire time–on two separate occasions.
I certainly don’t have to give his business any more than one star just because someone more competent might work there who could do a better job at cutting my hair. This cheap haircut lived up to the reputation of you getting what you pay for. ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE!
Attractions on Main
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Merv Bergal gave me a good haircut the first time I went to Attractions on Main. He was gentle, gave me a good taper, and had some engaging conversation with me.
Attractions on Main Salon
His coworker Tony Barela, however, did a much worse job upon my second visit to Attractions on Main. Barela was really rough and clumsy with his hands. He was not gentle with me. He ran his comb across my scalp so hard that I wrenched in pain. I told him that he could probably be more gentle with his comb. For a brief minute he was gentle, but then went back to jabbing the comb into my scalp with his lack of finesse. It really hurt.
He also attempted to give me the entire haircut with me facing away from the mirror on the wall right behind me. I corrected this by physically turning the chair and holding it in place so that I could watch him as he cut my hair to make sure something terrible wasn’t happening. It was a scary experience because I truly thought he was going to butcher my haircut. He would run his hand across my scalp between cuts–clumsily over my ears–bending them in the process, as if my head was a piece of corn that he was shucking.
In the end, the haircut Barela gave me was marginal, but the experience was discomforting.
For how painful this haircut was, I recommend against anyone visiting Tony Barela for a haircut.
TWO STARS OUT OF FIVE!
