Styling tips from fifth-generation owner of a business that began before samurai were allowed to cut their top-knots.
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You can now get stick-on salon masks for haircuts in the coronavirus age in Japan
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Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2020
See-through and strapless, the new masks help getting a haircut in the new normal feel a little more like it did in the old normal.
- Japan
- (clever • cool • coronavirus • hair salons • haircuts • hairstyling • masks)
Tokyo hair salon offers free cuts to anime fans whose 2-D crush fell in love with someone else
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Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2019
Start the next chapter of your love life, real-world or otherwise, with a new hairdo from the Heartbreak Salon.
Is Chinese hairstylist who shaved triangle into customer’s head the best or worst in the world?
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Casey Baseel
Jan 7, 2019
- China
- (crazy • fashion • funny • hair • haircuts • hairstyles • hairstyling • weird)
Pepper the robot suggests what haircut is best for you at Japanese barber shops【Video】
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Scott Wilson
Jun 18, 2016
Japanese government recognizes equal salon rights, men now “permitted” to get haircuts in them
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Master Blaster
Jul 21, 2015
A huge victory in the metrosexual rights movement was made last week when the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare decided to abolish a guideline which stated that “men should not be able to get haircuts at beauty salons.”
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