Just like in a black-and-white film… A visit to the barber’s is an encounter with a few legendary gestures and objects: a 1950s barber’s chair, a shaving brush, soap and shaving cream, a straight razor, a hot towel… Combining their traditional expertise with a range of high-performance grooming products, Parisian barbers offer gentlemen a moment of pure bliss. As well as haircuts and shaves, they shape moustaches and trim beards and their various styles: the goatee, the beard, or even the gothy – that short, neat beard combining a goatee and moustache, made fashionable by American rappers.
From large salons to neighbourhood spots, you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to being pampered.
La barbière de Paris is one of the leading destinations for men’s grooming. Across her four salons, Sarah Hamizi, a barber since 2000, offers a wide range of services: beard and hair trimming and colouring, facials, manicures, pedicures…
Between the past and the present, the salon Belom has his finger in every pie. He reigns supreme in this lounge at Montmartre a charming retro atmosphere with its comfortable XXL leather armchairs. From beard trimming to haircuts, as well as facials, body treatments and waxing, everything here has been designed with men in mind. The best bit? The salon is committed to protecting the environment on a daily basis by using organic or natural products and minimising waste and plastic packaging, for example…
For a delightful trip down memory lane, head to the salon-musée Alain Maître Barbier Coiffeur dans le 3e arrondissement. in the 3rd arrondissement. In a setting straight out of another era, the master barber shaves and styles hair in the traditional way using authentic equipment. A true enthusiast, he has written a book on the subject and also sells some of his favourite products.
All over the city, neighbourhood barbershops are springing up to keep a typically male tradition alive. Thanks to their secret formula, their perfect cuts and their expertise, some salons have been able to grow and open multiple branches. This is particularly true of the Grizzly Barber shops, the Maîtres Barbiers Perruquiers, the Garçons Barbiers, Big Moustache and Gentlemen 1919, which is unique in that it houses a cocktail bar with a speakeasy vibe.
