In old Shanghai, greasy uncles can be seen everywhere shuttling through alleys; Decades later, this trend became popular among young people in Shanghai, and was regarded as an oil head to express their retro heart.
Retro is a life attitude.
Everyone who runs a barber shop has his own attitude. The slogan "Boys are domineering, men have style" is posted on the glass door, which comes from a young man Henry with a Dali moustache.
Henry has been a barber for ten years, but he has a soft spot for retro hairstyles. Two years ago, he and his wife Brigitte Lin, who studied fashion design, turned the first floor of a small building on Yongfu Road into a retro barber shop. Both of them love retro style and match each other, completely integrating retro style into life.
This small building has a 200-square-meter garden. Decorative wooden doors, old bicycles, retro fountains and old barber chairs are placed in the garden "at will" ... When entering the building, it seems that there will be a feeling of crossing the old Shanghai Modern Times a hundred years ago.
Henry's carefully collected antiques.
The cash register on the bar has a history of 100 years and is fully mechanical. Although it has lost its former luster, its function is still intact and it is still used by Henry. Every time a guest pays the bill, it will make a "ding", which is very old-fashioned
Another feature here is that men's and women's barbershops are different. On the left hand side of the entrance is "Gents" and on the right hand side is "Ladies". In Henry's view, men cut their hair to enjoy the process of combing the oil head quietly; Women may prefer to talk loudly with their girlfriends, or pose for selfies after doing a new hairstyle.
Living in the era of classic generation.
Chen Meng, the boss of TWOFACE, was born into a fine arts family and was obsessed with retro culture. Later, studying in Japan was the heyday of the Japanese retro trend. He studied image design in Japan, focusing on hairdressing. After returning to China, he wandered around the industry as a fashion magazine consultant and freelance stylist. However, Chen Meng remembered her original intention of studying hairdressing and eventually opened a retro barber shop.
Chen Meng is getting a haircut.
In this shop in Shanghai, jazz is lingering around my ears, antique barber chairs are lined up, wooden floors, warm lights and antique wooden boxes are like a distant American storefront.
The gloss of tin box wax, scraper, hand scissors, texture brush, metal and leather presents a full modern feeling. The overall design style combines pop art and modern culture, and classical and modern styles are harmonious and unified here.
Some people don't understand that you can use the current hairdressing tools to do retro hairstyles, but I really enjoy the inner pleasure when using them. I think this is the same as a good tailor can't have only one tailor's knife. Barber is my occupation, and retro collection is my lifelong hobby.
Have a drink and get started.
Dylan, an Irish "bald guy" with metal earrings and a beard, and Anna, a Scottish girl dressed in punk and straightforward personality, opened an inconspicuous retro barber shop in the downtown area of Jing' an District. Sandwiched between supermarket chains and local restaurants, there seems to be no contradiction between avantgarde and market, fashion and conservatism.
This shop is called "Dr. guthrie" because Dr. guthrie is Anna's grandfather. He is a doctor and a navy veteran. You know, the earliest hairdressers were all professional doctors, and Anna's good skills were handed down from her grandfather.
Doc Guthrie's hair can't be dyed and permed, and there is no special person to provide shampoo and massage services. On the contrary, it restored the European style of the 1940s. There is no business for female guests here, which creates a space full of male hormones for men to the greatest extent.
The store is dominated by black and white tones, without complicated patterns and decorations, and a refreshing and capable feeling is coming.
Here, we don't play pop songs, and we don't have customers waiting for perm, curly hair and fancy shampoo. When you walk into this store, you can have a glass of beer or whisky, chat casually and get a haircut, and leave more radiant than when you came in.
Although the atmosphere is relaxed, they set a strict rule for themselves-it should not exceed 30 minutes to complete all the projects required by a guest.
This shop shaves with the most classic hot towel and straight knife. The shaver will cover his beard with a hot towel for a while, then apply shaving cream, shave with an old sterilized razor, and then switch to a straight razor.
More importantly, each guest can enjoy a Asahi beer, soft drinks or authentic scotch whisky. This tradition originated from the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920s. The barber shop, which used to be a man's business, became a place to find wine.
Walk into the door with red and blue lights, quietly drink a glass of highly brewed wine, chat with friends, shave, arrange your hair, and then go out easily ... This is not only a barber shop, but also a place to enjoy easily.
The story hidden behind the retro barber shop
When it comes to barbershop drinking, we have to mention this barbershop on Yongjia Road to make this tradition even more extreme.
The chair, shampoo basin, mirror, American retro hair wax, old combs from all over the world ... plus professional Japanese haircut service, it is a standard retro barber shop. However, to be precise, it is a special bar.
The door here is closed during the day and will open quietly when the light is turned on. If you pay a little attention, you will find that this "barber shop" is a bit "weird". Maybe a few minutes ago, the barber was leisurely trimming the beard of the guests. A few minutes later, these people, like Harry Potter, crossed the nine and three-quarters platform and disappeared. ...
It turns out that there is a mystery in the empty wine bottles filled on the small counter on the other side of the barber shop table: just turn one of the mysterious wine bottles and you can open the secret door to the "new world".
The retro bar also uses the same tiles as the barber shop area, and the rotating light box on the wall also continues the essence of the barber shop, plus slightly nostalgic leather seats, red brick walls and candlesticks ... This is the American bar style in the 1930 s.
The idea also comes from the prohibition era in the United States, when many bars were disguised like this. Of course, for this store, the retro barber shop is not a simple cover. If you want to shave at two o'clock in the morning, or make a simple shape, you can also get the professional service of a barber.