Bareknuckles Barbershop & Co. — Local services in Indianapolis

My husband came here wanting to support an Irvington business. The owner, John, cut his hair originally and did a half-effort job. My husband came home and the hair was different lengths on each side of his head. He went back the next day to get if fixed (they still didn’t fix it, his hair is two drastically different lengths on both sides of his head) and the barber that cut his hair originally wasn’t there. The new barber TRIED TO CHARGE HIM HALF PRICE for FIXING HIS HAIR!! That is absolutely ridiculous since his haircut was poor to begin with. The owner had the audacity to say “he’ll cover it.” My husband never should have had to come back to get his haircut fixed to begin with, and he never should have been told he’ll only be charged half off for FIXING his hair. If a business messes up as badly as this shop did, they should own their mistake without charging...

I like my haircut. Other than that, terrible experience. It brands itself as queer and BIPOC friendly, yet there is a punisher flag with a thin blue line down the middle hanging on the ceiling. Sorry, but you can't support the queer or BIPOC communities and be pro-cop.

The conversations the stylists were having were also very inappropriate. They talked mostly about being excessively drunk. The woman working was talking about her relationship with another stylist who stopped in and mentioned that he was cheating in his girlfriend with her. She made fun of her eyebrows and her weight loss surgery. She also threw a chip at a client.

My own stylist was pretty rough with me and hurt my scalp with the clippers.

Lastly, the shop is very dirty. Hair everywhere, embedded in the rugs.

I will...

Driving cross country for a new job, needed cut about 6 months of "why bother" off my head. In Indianapolis looked up and chose this Barbershop because it looked military friendly.

Walked in, no appointment, the staff acknowledged me quickly, and I did not have to wait long.

Jesse asked me what I needed, I said "Medium Skin Fade and finger-length on top" and he proceeded to do just that. Perfect fade, rounded evenly on top and at the right spot so it's not too high but not so low that my cowlick's gonna pop up right away (it's been two-weeks and it's still not there).

If I were living in Indianapolis, he'd be my go-to guy. Now, someone in Virginia has to live up to that, not looking forward...