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At This Atlanta Barbershop, the Conversation Goes on 24/7
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| Anytime Cutz, a barbershop in Atlanta, is open 24 hours a day. |
Published: April 28, 2012
ATLANTA — It is 1 a.m., but the night is young for Dre Rosenberg, a 22-year-old clothing stylist here. Later, he will grab drinks with friends and hit the nightclubs in Atlanta’s wealthiest neighborhood, Buckhead.
But first he needs a haircut.
So Mr. Rosenberg goes to one of the few places still open at that hour:
the 24-hour barbershop Anytime Cutz. “Three a.m., 4 a.m., 5 a.m.,” he
said. “It’s where you find your friends before the end of your night.”
This is the barbershop that never closes. And that has made it something
of a cult institution in this Southern capital that relishes its
fashion and night life.
With hip-hop playing softly through the speakers and a futon for taking
naps, the eight-chair salon caters to elite African-American men.
Celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal and the rapper Akon have walked past
the neon “Open” sign that never turns off, even on Christmas.
Other cities are taking notice. Over the past decade, 24-hour
barbershops and salons have opened in New York, London and Las Vegas.
The customers are as varied as their hairstyles: parents who forgot that
a child’s school photo was the next day, travelers with red-eye
flights, people working two jobs, musicians and night owls.
Black barbershops are evolving to keep up with modern lifestyles and an
economy that forces many clients to work unusual hours, said Dwayne
Thompson, an Atlanta-based writer for Against the Grain Magazine,
a quarterly publication about hair salons. “These have always been
fraternal places, where men can talk about the latest and greatest
topic,” he said. “This just takes that conversation into the night.”
Hair is big business in Atlanta, where self-described “celebrity
barbers” promote themselves at nightclubs with glossy fliers. Every
summer, the city hosts the nation’s largest African-American hair
products convention, the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show. And
when Chris Rock filmed “Good Hair,”
his 2009 documentary about the importance of hair in black culture, he
began in Atlanta, which he called “the city where all major black
decisions are made.”
The man behind the 24-hour barbershop idea is Ernesto Williams, 47, a
longtime hairstylist. In 2005, he and his wife at the time, Carol Lamar,
opened a small shop that shared a building with a 24-hour gas station.
Customers would stop for gas or beer and end up staying for a haircut.
The couple were relentless promoters. He would approach celebrities for
autographs, and then praise their hair and try to turn the conversation
to his barbershop. He even bought a tractor-trailer, installed barber
chairs and drove to festivals to cut hair inside the vehicle.
Last year, in their divorce, Ms. Lamar took control of the store from
her husband. She moved it to a larger studio space and changed the name,
from Ernesto’s Cuts to Anytime Cutz. A haircut costs $20, but a $10 tip
is added after 9:30 p.m.
“Everybody comes here,” said Cavario Hunter, the senior editor of Hip-Hop Weekly
magazine, who was transcribing an interview at the shop one recent
night. “Sometimes we don’t even text or call our friends. We just come
down here to find out what’s going on tonight.”
Barbers rent their chairs, so the more hair they cut, the more money
they make. There is incentive to stay all night. Many say they often
work 24-hour shifts. And to owners, the only added costs are utilities.
“These chairs lean back,” said one barber, Mikal Muslim, 34, who goes by
the nickname “Mickey the Razor.” “You can take a nap between clients
and then pop up and go back to work.”
In Las Vegas, a 24-hour barbershop operates near the airport. In New
York, two 24-hour Korean beauty salons have opened in Midtown in the
past five years. And there is even a shop in Augusta, Ga., which has
fewer than 200,000 people. That store, Kenny’s 24 Hour Barber Service,
was inspired by Atlanta’s store and serves late-night truck drivers
stopping along Interstate 20.
Customers have adjusted to the concept, said the owner, Kenny Bryant,
62. “Walmart is 24 hours,” he said. “The drugstore is 24 hours. Waffle
House is 24 hours. The idea of 9-to-5 is dead, even for barbers.”
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Channeling Brigitte Bardot’s Up-Do - Skin Deep
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Build the Base: Lift your roots by brushing upward from underneath your hair.
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| Then take the bottom layer of your hair and make a low ponytail. Curl the ponytail around two or three fingers, and pin it to the hair at the nape of your neck with two large bobby pins, one on either side. This is the bottom of your coif. |
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Tease:
Take a section of hair above your forehead and hold it firmly toward
the ceiling. Then place your comb, not at the roots of the hair, but
about the width of two fingers up from the roots. Now briskly comb
backward toward the scalp. When you’re through with that section of
hair, take the next section behind it and repeat the teasing process,
working your way toward the back of your head.
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Remember:
you want the volume to increase as you work backward. To do that, keep
backcombing farther up the hair shaft so that by the time you reach the
middle of your head, you are placing your comb about three fingers up
from your roots. At the back of your head, you can place the comb four
fingers up from your roots.
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| Tiered Ponytails: Gently gather the hair you just combed back into a second ponytail directly above the one at the base of your neck. Pin this new ponytail to the hair at the back of your head. Next, make a third ponytail out of the end of the second. |
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| Again, pin down both sides. (If you prefer to sport a ponytail that sticks out, just don’t pin the ends.) Gingerly comb back the front and sides of your coif. |
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Hairspray:
To keep the front of your hair flatter than the back, insert a few
metal clips a couple of inches back from your forehead. Shellac with
hair spray. (A word of warning: do not assume, as this reporter did,
that a mere shower will wash that Bardot out of your hair. You must comb
out the knots and hairspray first.) Once the hairspray is dry, remove
the clips. Add a black headband or ribbon.
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| Voilà |
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
Published: April 24, 2012
RETRO geometric prints, sleeveless shifts, false eyelashes: Walk into a
dress shop or drugstore these days, and you might think you’ve been
teleported back to 1965. With celebrities like Adele showing off vintage
looks, and “Mad Men” inspiring makeup by Estée Lauder and clothes by
Banana Republic, is it any wonder many women are trying to tease their
hair?
To achieve volume and sex appeal with this method without resembling an
extra from “Hairspray,” one need only look to the ultimate 1960s siren, Brigitte Bardot.
On an April day so unseasonably hot it approximated a day in St.-Tropez, Fabrice Gili, the creative director of Frédéric Fekkai’s
SoHo salon, was armed with a can of volumizer the size of a rolling
pin. To evoke Ms. Bardot in a modern way, he said, through an aerosol
fog, your coif must be messy — at once “done and undone.” That’s good
news for those of us who can barely braid our hair. Even better: it’s
easier to achieve the nouveau Bardot look if your hair is dirty (a day
or two dirty, not punk-rocker dirty). “It looks quite ridiculous if you
have it all perfect,” Mr. Gili said, cautioning women against showing up
for a date with a flawless up-do. “You look like you’re trying too
hard.”
Tools: Hot rollers, three elastics, bobby pins, hair
clips, volumizer, hair spray, a teasing comb, a flat brush, black
ribbon, patience.
Preparation: Ladies with thick, wavy or curly hair,
stop lamenting your rebellious locks and rejoice! You can skip this part
and proceed to building the base. But if your hair is straight or fine,
begin by spraying volumizer on the roots and the mid-shaft of your hair
(not the ends). Then use rollers to set the hair on the very top of
your head. Roughing up the texture is crucial because it helps the hair
hold a shape. Once the rollers cool, remove them and go to the next
step.
Build the Base: Lift your roots by brushing upward from
underneath your hair. Then take the bottom layer of your hair and make a
low ponytail. Curl the ponytail around two or three fingers, and pin it
to the hair at the nape of your neck with two large bobby pins, one on
either side. This is the bottom of your coif.
Tease: Take a section of hair above your forehead and
hold it firmly toward the ceiling. Then place your comb, not at the
roots of the hair, but about the width of two fingers up from the roots.
Now briskly comb backward toward the scalp. When you’re through with
that section of hair, take the next section behind it and repeat the
teasing process, working your way toward the back of your head.
Remember: you want the volume to increase as you work backward. To do
that, keep backcombing farther up the hair shaft so that by the time you
reach the middle of your head, you are placing your comb about three
fingers up from your roots. At the back of your head, you can place the
comb four fingers up from your roots.
Use Your Fingers: To keep the look natural and of the
moment, comb the hair back using your fingers, not a brush, as was the
custom in the 1960s.
Tiered Ponytails: Gently gather the hair you just
combed back into a second ponytail directly above the one at the base of
your neck. Pin this new ponytail to the hair at the back of your head.
Next, make a third ponytail out of the end of the second. Again, pin
down both sides. (If you prefer to sport a ponytail that sticks out,
just don’t pin the ends.) Gingerly comb back the front and sides of your
coif.
Hairspray: To keep the front of your hair flatter than
the back, insert a few metal clips a couple of inches back from your
forehead. Shellac with hair spray. (A word of warning: do not assume, as
this reporter did, that a mere shower will wash that Bardot out of your
hair. You must comb out the knots and hairspray first.) Once the
hairspray is dry, remove the clips. Add a black headband or ribbon.
Said Mr. Gili: “Voilà!”
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