Norcross Barber Shop

Completely unfriendly demeanor, totally agree with the other review. Glad I walked out before she cut my hair

I hesitate to write this review since mine is the first and it’s negative. But I rely on honest Unilocalers to help inform me, so I’ll take one for the team and be «that guy’ here.
I love old town barber shops. They’ve experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years — and I’m glad for that. Norcross is a cute little «strip» town with restaurants and a few craft shops. So this barbershop seemed to fit perfectly.
From the outside it seems unassuming enough — brick exterior, default barber pole, large glass front windows, «BARBER SHOP» block script painted neatly about the entrance. But inside…
PROs:
— It was done fast.
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CONs:
— I immediately noticed the extremely bad odor as soon as I walked in. I thought it might have been some kind of foreign dish (Sorry! Sometimes they can be smelly!). Sadly, it wasn’t. It lingered the entire time I was there.
— The shop was in disorder. Hair clumps all around the cutting station. There was only one barber and she had no other clients, but she was sitting down reading a magazine when I walked in; so she should have had time to clean up before the next customer.
— I should have left then, but like a nice sap I sat down anyway. Halfway through cutting my hair with clippers I noticed that the clipper guards, neatly arranged on the counter, were rusty, caked with old hair and were sitting on a dirty towel.
— She was quite cold. Not even professional «friendly» (the kind where you know they don’t really care about you personally but they do want to be polite). No smiles, small talk, eye-​contact, etc. She could have pointed her scissors at me and gurgled out a threat like horror movie barbers do and I would have accepted it as a good sign at that point.
— Mediocre-​to-​bad cut. Done in about ten minutes, almost all with clippers and little scissor work on top.
–Instead of brushing off hair bits, she used this crazy air hose that — seriously — felt like the freezing compressed air that comes from those air-​can keyboard dusters when you spray them upside down (you know what I’m talking about, so don’t pretend you don’t). Seriously uncomfortable.
— Cash only. It’s 2014. Even farmer’s markets take cards now. So really — no cards at all?
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So, yes, I genuinely feel bad to write the first review and have it be a negative one. I definitely don’t want to be responsible for putting anyone out of business. But since the experience was akin to sitting on a rundown trailer park porch while receiving a bowl cut with a hubcap and hedge shears in the dark, I’d say that it was my responsibility to make it known.
Please, someone, let us know if you’ve had a better experience!