{"id":175764902,"date":"2015-01-09T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/?p=175764902"},"modified":"2015-01-17T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:36:12","slug":"finally-a-real-barbershop-in-trondheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/finally-a-real-barbershop-in-trondheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally a real barbershop in Trondheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATED!
\nToday I had a nice visit at Trondheim’s\u00a0new\u00a0barbershop “H2 Barber & Sons”.
\nFinally, someone in my home town: Trondheim, has realized that there is a market for a real good old fashioned shave with hot and cold towels,\u00a0and associated delights.<\/p>\n

In the shopping mall “Merqur senteret” in Nordre\u00a0gate, the hairdressers chain “H2 ” recently opened\u00a0a barbershop in “the old style”. The guys who work there can give a good shave (shavette) and they also do hair styling for men (this is a pure gentleman lounge). The interior is done with wooden cabinets, old shaving-related pictures on the walls, and not least: Real\u00a0barber chairs!<\/p>\n

Barber Alexander Jacobsen starts with a round of hot water on the chin. He then\u00a0massages in one layer with pre-shave cream. Then he puts on a hot towel. It is arranged\u00a0\u00a0so that it covers the throat, chin and mouth. He then fold the ends of the towel and puts them\u00a0on the eyes and forehead \u2013\u00a0just as you’d expect at a real barbershop. They do\u00a0not use\u00a0hot tap water to heat the towels, but use a\u00a0heating cabinet.\u00a0Then he put on a\u00a0layer of shaving cream, that he first whipped up in a cup.\u00a0For the\u00a0shave, he uses a\u00a0shavette with Astra blade.<\/p>\n

The shave was\u00a0quick and good. Alexander has good technique and he does the whole shave\u00a0without spilling a single drop of blood, and he finished the shave with a cold towel and some good aftershave lotion. They offer\u00a0two varieties of shaving: “Traditional shaving” (390, -) and “Full traditional shaving” (590, -). The difference between the two variants is one-pass, and\u00a0two-pass shaving. I got the one pass shave this time, with some touch ups. The result looks nice, but I had four days of growth, so i think a one-pass was\u00a0shave was not enough. If you have a few days worth of stubble, you\u00a0should probably choose the\u00a0“Full traditional shaving” (two-passes) to get 100% smooth.<\/p>\n

All in all a very positive experience with friendly staff and a barber\u00a0with good technique.
\nRecommended!<\/p>\n

Update:
\nLast weekend the guys\u00a0in H2 Barber and sons had a course with the English barber Chris Foster. I visited them again on Friday to check the progress \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0There\u00a0actually was a noticeable\u00a0change in barber Alexander’s shaving technique. For example, he used more “pinching technique” to stretch out the skin. This time I got a two-pass shave, making the shave much smoother. Alexander tells that Chris Foster\u00a0will be\u00a0coming to them once a month to work on their shaveing and barbering techniques. I will continue to follow\u00a0the development of H2 Barber and sons \ud83d\ude42
\nCheck out this cool video from Foster’s visit at H2 Barber and sons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ready

Ready for my shave \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Heating<\/a>

Heating towels<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The barbershop<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The barber, Alexander Jacobsen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The barbershop, first and second floor<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Three

Three chairs on the second floor<\/p><\/div>\n

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UPDATED! Today I had a nice visit at Trondheim’s\u00a0new\u00a0barbershop “H2 Barber & Sons”. Finally, someone in my home town: Trondheim, …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21,20,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175764902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175764902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175764902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175764923,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175764902\/revisions\/175764923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175764902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175764902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175764902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}