I’m going to the Barbershop

You see the stick in blue, red and white spinning around in front of the entrance to the Barbershop. We are entering The Barber’s Spa at Av Monterrey in Roma Norte. It is Saturday the 31st of October and Mads is going to shave off all his beard, which he had been growing for some months.

By entering the door, it does fill like going back in time, back to the lovely 20s in a Barbershop in America, or at lease as I imagine a barbershop from this time. There is three Barber chairs, all in red leather and in the 20s style. There even is a smell of a Barbershop, when Mads is taking place in one of the chairs. The Barber is warring a white shirt with black suspenders and a black bow tie – the style is completed. He is laying Mads down in the chair, so the “operation” can begin.

The floor is getting full of black beard after the Barber has used the machine to cut the most of the beard. The beard is now having the right length to being cut by a new Barber-knife. The face of Mads is getting white, when the Barber is putting the barber-foam on his skin. The time as come where Mads needs to trust the Barbar when he is starting to use the sharp knife for cutting his beard.

The precision from the Barber is fascinating. It is a craft I’m looking at, when the Barber is cutting the beard with the barber-knife. It starts to bleed from a few points of the skin, but it is all stopping when the Barber is butting different types of creams on his skin.

The Barber is putting the chair back to the starting position. The session is finishing with a small shoulder and neck massage by a massage-machine, which the Barber is putting on his hand.

When Mads is walking out of The Barber’s Spa is he looking good but different without his beard. Mads is now ready to take part of Movember. Movember is a month long campaign in November where men all over the world are growing there moustage to “Change the face of men’s health”, as the campaign describes; http://www.movember.com. The idea of the campaign, which started in 2004, is to put focus on Prostate cancer, Testicular cancer, Mental problems and Physical inactivity just to name some examples.