TWO FLAT RATES No card asked for · no proof · no fuss

KIDS $25. SENIORS $25. SAME FOUR CHAIRS.

Two ends of the same street. A four-year-old who has never sat in a barber chair, and a man who has been getting the same taper since before this block had streetlights. Both get a real barber and a number that doesn't move.

Hold a chair Or check the wait →

— Ask for these two by name

DEAN · nearly every kid in the shop

MARCUS · blending gray rather than hiding it

RAY & OMAR · will cut anyone, any age

Quietest hour · TUE 9 AM

KIDS 12 & UNDER — $25 ● SENIORS 65 & OVER — $25 ● BOOSTER SEAT IF THE FEET DON'T REACH ● NO PROOF ASKED ● KIDS 12 & UNDER — $25 ● SENIORS 65 & OVER — $25 ● BOOSTER SEAT IF THE FEET DON'T REACH ● NO PROOF ASKED ●

— Off the standard board, both directions

Two rates.

SAME BARBERS
SAME CHAIRS

KIDS

12 & underAny cut: fade, taper, scissor crop, buzz. Booster seat if the feet don't reach the rest.

25 MIN

$25

FIRST

First haircutSame twenty-five. We just block thirty minutes instead of twenty-five and spend the extra five letting them touch everything.

30 MIN

$25

SENIOR

65 & overTen dollars off the standard cut. Nobody at this counter is going to ask you for a card.

30 MIN

$25

EITHER

Line-up onlyHairline squared at the forehead and temples between cuts. Free if it's the same visit as a haircut.

15 MIN

$15

1st— the one you photograph

The Kingsmen floor before opening — three barber chairs under pendant lamps against exposed brick, tiled floor

— A first haircut, in order

Nobody cries
at nine in the morning.

Not true, exactly. But it's a lot less likely in an empty shop than it is at two on a Saturday with eleven people on the bench and four sets of clippers running. If it's their first, come Tuesday or Wednesday morning. That's the whole trick.

They sit in your lap if they want to. Plenty of first cuts happen that way and the cape goes over both of you.
We start with scissors, not clippers. The noise is what scares them, not the haircut. So the loud tool comes out last, and only if it's needed.
Dean does most of them. He'll cut around a cowlick instead of fighting it, and he's quick when quick is what's called for.
It gets stopped if it needs stopping. A rough first cut is worth less than a kid who'll sit down next time. We'd rather finish it in the doorway.
Polaroid and an envelope at the end, if you want them. Some people want the curl. Some people want the photo. Some want neither, which is fine.

Honest version: the first one is rarely the best haircut they'll ever get. It's the one that decides whether the second one is easy.

Read Dean's page →

— From our side of the chair

Three things that help.

None of them are rules. All of them make the twenty-five minutes shorter.

Feed them first

A hungry four-year-old and a pair of shears are a bad combination. Come after breakfast, not instead of it.

Don't promise candy

Whatever you offered in the car is now the only thing they're thinking about, and it isn't the haircut. Tell them what's happening instead: chair, cape, buzzing thing, done.

They have to sit alone-ish

Lap is fine. Squirming is fine. What doesn't work is a child who is genuinely fighting it. Nobody wins that argument holding clippers. Come back in a few months and try again.

— Sixty-five and over

Ten dollars off.
Nobody asks
for ID.

If you tell us you're sixty-five, you're sixty-five. There's no card, no form, no little sticker on the file. We've never once checked and we're not going to start.

The cut is booked at thirty minutes rather than twenty-five, and that's on purpose. Thinner hair takes longer to blend, not less time. Marcus is the one to sit with if you're going gray and want it cut into rather than covered. He'll take weight out of the top so it lies down instead of standing up.

Ears and neck are part of the cut, not an upsell. So is the straight-razor neckline and the hot towel. Thirty-five dollars becomes twenty-five and nothing comes off the service.

One thing worth knowing before you drive over: there is a single step at the door off Edgewood, about six inches, and the shop is one level inside. If that step is a problem, call from the curb (404.555.0188), and somebody will come out and get the door. Tuesday and Wednesday mornings there's almost always a chair open and space to park a walker beside it.

Hours, parking and the phone

Marcus Bell, owner of Kingsmen Barber Co., finishing a cut at chair one

— Bring the kid. Bring your father.

TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS.
EITHER WAY.

Walk in and put a name down, or hold a chair for the quiet hour on Tuesday.

Hold a chair

1842 EDGEWOOD AVE NEATLANTA, GA 30307

404.555.0188TEXT, DON'T CALL

TUE–SAT 9–7SUN 10–5 · MON CLOSED