I have had a bit of a bad hair life really. Even my daughter, whose natural pre-raphaelite curls are the bane of her existence, would not swap her hair for mine. ‘I’d love straight hair, Mummy’, she says. ‘But not like yours.’
A good cut makes all the difference of course and that is why I am so happy to have met The Village Barbers in the Chaparral. Andrew and Matt have got it all worked out. Between them they have been cutting hair for centuries so if they can’t sort out a dodgy barnett, no-one can.
Andy takes care of the women who walk through the door while Matt is the gentleman’s barber. On the day Gags and I visited we had to wait twenty minutes, which we spent by nipping over the road to Tre Bol (Why is there nowhere to have a cup of tea in Chapperal before 11.30 on a Saturday morning?)
My previous haircut had been something of a disaster. I had ended up with two completely different styles. A rough, choppy cut at the back and droopy spaniel ears at the front. I didn’t even have to explain as Andrew fingered my weird locks before flashing into action with his scissors.
Seconds later and my spaniel ears had flopped their last and although sadly Andrew could not give me the thick luscious locks I have wanted all my life, he had given me a fabulous cut which makes my hair look thicker and suits me very well.
He worked the same magic on Gaga’s wispy locks and in the time Andrew had been working on us, Matt was taking care of a steady stream of men’s trims and cuts while the two bantered back and forth and gave us the low down on the spate of strange burglaries that have been plaguing locales in the area.
It seems some mad bandit (though Matt’s language was a wee bit stronger) has been breaking into shops and bars and stealing the oddest things. They had broken into The Village Barber only recently and made off with a plastic water bottle and half of Andrew’s hair dyes. In bars, the villain nicks some grub and a couple of bottles of booze. All very mysterious. A starving alcoholic transvestite who can’t afford to buy his own hair dye?
Still never mind the Mad Bandit, if you are looking for a haircut in the Costa Del Silencio area, Ihighly recommend the Village Barbers in Chapperal.
I have to agree with this post.. the mad barbers are two terrific, funny fellas besides being great barbers. They were recomended to me a while ago but I just never got round to trying them out but I gave them a try . Now I tell everyone about them.