The Belfast Barbering Company

Right slap bang in the city centre is Belfast Barbering company — I called in here for a quick snip a few days before Flying to San Fran — wanted to look my best didn’t I? Popped in at about 10am and the lonely barber told me that I needed an appointment — yep it’s one of those barbers — no walk ins!
So I went and perched myself at Starbuck and called to see if they had any appointments available and luckily they did — not sure why I couldn’t do this when I walked in, but hey, rules are rules I suppose.
Anyway I managed to get an appointment for 11:30am and the female barber was great — I explained I had my hair chopped a few weeks back and I just wanted a wee trim. She obliged and cut it perfectly, even stopping intermittently to ask me was it looking ok — I like this as often I just keep quite and let them work away and then I get up out of the chair hating how my ginger quiff looks and wishing I had stopped them, but it’s all too awkward.
Anyway I was in and out in 20 minutes, no waiting around due to the appointment process and I was only charger £11 which is a snip (get it? Snip?).

Having moved from student and upper-​middle class haven Stranmillis to the city centre I found myself at a loss, where do I get my haircut now?
After trying a few places I wondered into this barbers just a two minute walk from my apartment. It was a soaking wet day (as days often are in this city of rain) and I had finally had enough of a mop of hair that any number of wax and gel products had failed to style.
I’m still not sure of her name but the barber who generally cuts my mop is always spot on. Cheery and chatty, without being overly talkative about topics so banal you want the world to implode.
Quick and efficient. It’s always what I wanted. I can’t stand the process of the actual haircut, but when it’s complete there is always a sigh of relief.
Granted, this is certainly not the cheapest place to go in the city centre area, and there are certainly much more ‘old school’ barbers charging significantly less, but I think it’s worth it.
£11.50 for a trim, steep? Perhaps, but it’s only every couple of months… I just suck it up.