Barbers and Brew - Grooming Lounge — Attraction in Rockville

This is my first bad review I have ever left for someone and to be honest, was really debating on whether I would do it or not. But after talking to a few people about my horrific experience, I will NOT be recommending this place to anyone.

Let me preface this by saying, as a person who is completely blind without his glasses, with barbers I’m not used to, I occasionally pop on my glasses just to get a quick look at the cut as it’s happening and see if there’s any changes or preferences I would like (shorter/longer off the top of sides). Granted, to a barber who’s been cutting me a while and has earned my trust after 2 visits, I can understand how that would be frustrating. However, as someone who’s only been cut by Ehab 3 times in maybe 4-5 years, I just wanted to take a look occasionally, ESPECIALLY since last time my beard was not done to my liking.

Anyways, as I was getting my cut, I popped on my glasses maybe 4-5 times, each time for less than 10 seconds, JUST TO SEE how the cut was going. I guess with me doing that, Ehab took such offense to that and started implying I don’t trust him and even if he “messes up” what am I going to do about it. After some back and forth regarding that comment, he proceeded to run the blade over my beard twice in a nonchalant way and said “whoops, I missed up, now what are you going to do about it”.

In all fairness, he didn’t actually mess up the beard but the fact that he was being so rude and disrespectful about it completely changed the atmosphere. And on top of the fact that I didn’t have my glasses so I was unable to tell if he ACTUALLY messed up my beard, we got into another back and forth. Which then his other barbers started trying to get tough and intimidate me and getting in my face (very poorly might i add). Anyways, at this point I just wanted the cut to be over so I could have nothing to do with him anymore, but as he was beginning to use the blade on my neck, he started saying “oh you’re about to feel this sh**” and after that, I thought it was in both of our best interests to end the cut.

So long story short, this dude got his feelings hurt because I was looking at the cut occasionally with my glasses, which I would also like to add was always in the middle of him switching guards or trimmers, so not even like I was doing it mid cut.

If you can’t control your emotions and want to be offended that I “don’t trust you”, this is not the business for you buddy.

And my fellow blind people, stay away lol

Oh and covid protocols are terrible. Every client had...

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