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Clipper guard

Drag to cut. 0 to 4 picks the guard, Space makes a pass.

Most of a good cut is the part you can’t see.

Four chairs in Prospect. Cuts, skin fades and tapers, beard shaping and hot-towel shaves. Book online, or walk in when a chair’s free.

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Guard 413 mm

Four chairs in Prospect

One mirror wall, four leather chairs and a steamer of hot towels. The morning sun comes in low across the floor.

Four empty oxblood leather chairs in a row along the mirror wall, morning sun across the floor

Book online

Pick a chair and a time. We’ll hold it.

Walk in

If a chair’s empty, it’s yours. Look through the window.

Take your time

A cut is forty minutes. We don’t double-book the chair.

Hours

Tuesday to Saturday, early till late afternoon. Thursdays, later.

Guard 310 mm

What the numbers mean

Clipper guards are numbered by length. Tell us a number and we both know where we stand.

Pick a number to see what it leaves.

Guard 26 mm

Cuts, fades and tapers

  1. Cut

    Scissors, clippers or both, shaped to how your hair grows.

    In the chair
    40 min
    Back in
    4–6 weeks
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  2. Skin fade

    Down to the skin at the neck, blended up into what you keep on top.

    In the chair
    45 min
    Back in
    2–3 weeks

    Tell us how high. We’ll show you in the mirror before we commit.

    Book a skin fade

  3. Taper

    Shorter at the neckline and around the ears, stopping just short of skin.

    In the chair
    40 min
    Back in
    3–4 weeks
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  4. Beard shape

    Length taken down, and the cheek and neck lines set where you want them.

    In the chair
    25 min
    Back in
    2 weeks

    We’ll ask where you want the line before we draw it.

    Book a beard shape

  5. Cut and beard

    Both, in one sitting.

    In the chair
    60 min
    Back in
    3–4 weeks
    Book both

  6. Clean-up

    Neck and edges, between cuts.

    In the chair
    15 min
    Back in
    1–2 weeks

    Walk-ins welcome for this one.

    Book a clean-up
A barber's hands running a clipper up the back of the head, cut hair falling onto the cape

Guard 13 mm

The blend is the slow part. We take our time here.

Where short meets long

Guard ½1.5 mm

The hot-towel shave

Forty minutes, a straight razor and nobody in a hurry.

A folded hot towel steaming on a steel tray beside a closed razor and a bowl of lather

  1. Hot towel

    5 min

    Warm, folded over, left for a few minutes.

  2. Lather

    5 min

    Worked in with a brush.

  3. With the grain

    10 min

    The first pass with the razor.

  4. Across

    10 min

    A second, closer pass.

  5. Cold towel and balm

    10 min

    To finish.

A straight razor squaring the neckline under a skin fade, a thin line of lather along the edge

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When to come back

A cut looks its best for a while, then it looks like last month. Roughly:

  • Skin fadeevery 2–3 weeks
  • Taperevery 3–4 weeks
  • Cutevery 4–6 weeks
  • Beardevery 2 weeks
  • Clean-upevery 1–2 weeks

A rough guide. Hair grows at its own pace.

Guard 0Skin

That’s the back

Our usual mid skin fade. Cut your own at the top of the page.

We hold the mirror up at the end of every cut, and again halfway if you like. Nothing’s finished until you’ve seen the back.

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