5TH Street Barber Shop — Local services in Katy

Moved to Katy from Louisiana in 2013. We struggled to find a barber shop near our house. I don't care for the mega chain places, I am not an executive and don't want to pretend to be one and pay $40 for a haircut.

The biggest problem I found with the local mega chain places and the expensive fancy places is they cycle through hairstylists constantly so you never have the same person twice. The hairstylists are not barbers, they are typically women that just finished school and are cutting men's hair until they get a salon job. These women often use the clippers and the guide and don't BLEND your hair cut up the sides and into the top. So you get the weird chopped look or the Grace Jones box look on the sides of your head. A real barber will use the clippers with a comb and then use scissors with the comb to blend the sides to the top.

The two barbers at 5th Street do a great job and always keep me entertained with their conversations and stories. Plus they BOTH use scissors to blend your hair correctly and give you a professional barbershop haircut for $15. You cant beat that.

Don't let the little house fool you, this establishment is definitely one of the...

Lisa has been my barber for well over 15 years and she is very easy to communicate with and knows her trade very well. I haven’t looked for another barber in all those years because I believe she is the best around and I love her small town atmosphere in her shop. Her skills are second to none and she charges a fair price for her haircuts. Also, you get a neck shave at the end of the cut with a nice warm towel to clean your neck followed by a neck and back massage by a massage machine. I feel pampered by the time I get outta there. It also doesn’t hurt that she tells great stories every...

Got a haircut from Lisa a few months ago and she did an amazing job. However, I went back to the barbershop today and she wasn’t there. The man who cut my hair was an older gentleman who was condescending towards me when I asked to see my hair mid-haircut, because I could feel he was taking off more hair that if requested. He immediately denied my request and told me to wait until the end of the haircut. I noticed when I got home that he left me almost bald on the back of my head (he didn’t let me look at the back of my head when he was done). I was very dissatisfied with...