NEXT 2 weeks later continuation by Barbershop memmories

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So, what exactly is. A High and tight horse shoe flat top, i asked him.

Its a Military type haircut, popular back home, he said as he caped me and tucked a tissue in and fastened the cape.

How old are you kid?

13, i said.

Well,,, thinking about it, maybe the horse shoe is a little extreme for a kid your age so we'll just go with the high and tight flat top ok.

What ever you think but will the back and sides still be nice and smooth, i really liked the way it felt when it was done 2 weeks ago.

Don't ya mean the way it looked?

Oh yeah, it looked great aswell, but the way it felt when i rubbed my fingers and hand up the back and sides was the best bit, it just felt Great.

I could hardly beleive how honest i was being and what i was telling him but i just felt so at ease with him.

Smiling and laughing a little he said, D' ya know somethimg kid,, i know just what you mean, feels good done it,, i was just the same when i was your age.

My Dad was Army and i followed in his footsteps then trained as a barber when i left.

High and tight!,,,, Does that mean what i think it means, i said to him, As he pumped the chair up.

Tell you what kid,, what say i let you know whats happening as we go, sound good.

Yes sir, thank you sir i said. Trying to do an American accent..

You sure your Dads not Army, he said, smiling.

No, I just heard it on an American Army film i watched.

He picked up a maroon coloured set of clippers,,,
These are Osters, the tripple zero blade cuts down to one fiftieth of an inch,

CLACK.

The clippers burst into life.

They were really loud and for some unknown reason, i felt a kind of warm glow feeling in my stomache

I'll strip all the sides and back off with these to start with, i'm gonna take them a little bit higher than your last cut,, ok kid,, he said to me, over the noise of the clippers.

Yeah great, i said,,
But how do you know how high Mr Fletcher went?
I can tell that by the way your hairs grown out.

He placed his hand on the top od my head and tilted it gently to the left a little and placed the blades at the right side of my temple, as the humming blades touched the side of my head, the vibration of them felt amazing, he ran them up quite quickly then started the next pass up the side adjascent to the first one.

The feeling and sound my hair made as it came off was simply fantastic and even though he ran them up the side of my head quite quickly, the sensation of the Oster clippers louder sound and vibration against my head was better than anything i had ever experienced before, better in fact than anything i could have ever imagined.

And beleive me, in the past year or two i had imagined a lot of different types of scenarios and situations, about me getting a short, usually forced or unwanted haircut.

It was so vivid, it almost seemed like it was all happening in slow motion.

I was relishing every second.

Just put your head right down for me, ok.

He was now running them up the back of my head just behind my right ear and used his hand to steady my head holding it quite firmly but still gently he pushed it down a little further,, again i could feel the clippers biting their way up but never tugging or pulling, the sensation was great and very relaxing.

It certainly felt as if the clippers where going much higher up at the back than my previous haircut by Fletcher.

I could also tell because the high pitched buzzing sound the clippers made on the back and sides where Fletcher had shaved them 2 weeks earlier changed and got lower as they ran up and over the longer hair Fletcherhad left near top at the back of my head

I tried to look in the mirror to see how it looked but my head was to far down, i was dying to see how it looked.

I didn't have to wait long.

With the back finished, he stopped and brushed the hairs off the clipper blades then did the left side the same as the right then used a hair dryer to blow away all the loose hairs, as he was putting the hair dryer back on its hook under the counter, i lifted my arm out from under the cape and ran the palm of my hand up the back and sides of my head, the tiny bristles felt amazing, a huge grin spread accross my face.

Happy so far kid, he said.

Yeah, great, i said nodding and smiling at the same time.

He pumped the chair up a little higher,

ok kid, lift your head up a little and just look straight in the mirror ok.

I did as he said.

He picked up a can of hairspray and comb, close your eyes a sec he said and then sprayed the hair on top combing it back as he spayed it tillall the hair on the top off my haid stood up.

He Lifted the front with the comb holding it flat and level, sideways accross the front of my head then switched the clippers on and ran them sideways accross the top of the comb, he did this repeatedly moving from the front to the back, my hair gradually getting shorter and shorter.

He put the comb down and showed me the clipper blades and explained to me how they could be adjusted by using the lever on the side of them, then showed me a guard and snapped it onto the clipper.

They made a much louder CLACK, as he switched them on, holding in the palm of his hand he began running them repeatedly up and over the top on the sides and back of my head then changed the guard for a smaller one and did the same again then removed the guard altogether and went up and over the top and sides at the back and along the top of the back half of my head,
It felt fantastic, i had never felt clippers cutting that short on the top of my head before.

He was standing to the right hand side of me which meant i had a perfect view in the mirror of what was going on and could see every little detail as it happened.

He used a the hairspray and comb again to lift my hair up at front and ran the clippers accross it again taking it a a bit shorter.

Well kid, what do you think so far, he said as he switched off the clippers.

WOW! It's amazing i said, and once again i found myself lifting my hand out from under the cape to feel the tiny bristles on the back and sides of my head this time however the bristly feeling didn't stop, it just carried up and over the top of my head at the back, WOW! Fantastic i thought to myself.

Is that it, is it finished, i said,

Well, thats a flat top kid and i've taken the sides and back up higher like you wanted haven't i ?.

Well yeah,, it's just that,,,,,

Just what, he said.

Well, i just thought that the back and sides would get shaved smooth like last time, i mean it looks great, the back and are really short and i like the bristly feel but i like the smooth feel and the way it looks even more.

Ok kid your'e the boss i guess , and at that he took a towel and tucked it in around my neck then put another towel in a sink ran a hot tap over it.

A kind of warm butterfly sensation started in my stomache at the thought of what was about to happen.

He rinsed out the hot towel and wrapped it around my head then opened out a razor and began slapping it back and forth on a leather belt that hung below the counter then rubbed a shaving brush with hot water in a cup with soap in it then took the hot towel off my head and rubbed the frothy soap round the sides and back of my head.

Ok now keep real still for me kid, ok he said as he tilted my head to one side, he placed the razor against my temple and glided it down, he did the same thing again and again moving round the side of my head inch by inch at a time, the right side of my head 2 inches above my ear now looked perfectly smooth, very pale, almost shiny, after about 10 minutes or so he was finished, he rubbed all the britles and soap away with the towel then blended away the faint tiny bristly line with a foil shaver running it high up the sides and up and over the top at the back then cleaned it up again wiping it over with the towel.

He removed the cape and tissue and showed me the back with a hand held mirror.

I was awe struck.

It was totally amazing

I felt the back and sides with my hand, it was completely smooth.

WELL, he said

FANTASTIC.

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