Deja Vu Barbershop — Local services in New York

Decided to get a beard trim since the posterior aspect of the beard is hard to reach. My barber is in Astoria and i live now in Murray Hill. So decided to go to this place that looked nice from outside. Place is nice, gives you a vibe of old fashioned/modern barbershop. Ariel took care of me (since the name was in the mirror). He welcomed me, ask me to sit on the chair. I told him i want a bear trim (only the hair sticking out), to make the back of the beard straight line and to the lower part just to keep it were was previously marked. Top lines were uneven, lower line was made higher, back part was made round, he cut to much length of the beard, and as a bonus he went without asking and "cleaned up" the back of my head hair line, making it high, uneven (i have long hair, with a bon, and was trying to keep a natural look) nad eve cutting some of my hair (i realized this after getting home). In resume, ia had to shave after 2 months and half of beard growth. With the posterior aspect of my hair will just have to live with the frustration. Because i have a lot of respect for barber and i admire their profession, i payed 12 dollars of my trim and gave him 8$. As a feed back, i will encourage ariel to ask the client and maintain better communication to avoid this mistake. The perfect hair cut comes when you are able to do a good balance between the client desires and your...

Clean space and can cut hair, that's about it. First time client, probably no deja vu for me in the future, though.

Made an appointment with Sam via their website and arrived a tad early and was taken for a walk in, but did not catch my barber's name. Don't even think they said hello, they just pointed me to a chair. Asked for a mullet since I've been growing out my hair and wanted to leave the back messy. When they laughed at the idea I should have just gotten up and left. Told them to do a skin fade just on the sides around the ears and taper to the ridge, they mumbled something about a skin fade going all around, then told me it was gonna be a mohawk. Figured it was close enough but then he took clippers immediately and cut the back, no planning no nothing. Goodbye mullet. Whatever, hair grows back after a while, but for thirty some odd dollars I should have gotten what...

Will not be returning here! I went in for a clean-up and told the barber multiple times that I was trying to grow out my hair and just wanted a cleanup, about 1/4" all around. I said I did not want my scalp to show on the sides. First thing he does is grab the 1/2" shear and ruins my hair. Its normally an 1 1/4" on the sides. I told him it was entirely too short and he just said "it looks good short". I spent 2 months growing it out just to leave the shop back to my original short hair, which I can now see my scalp all around. If you don't care how your hair is cut this is the place for you. If you want to have your hair cut the way you want I would avoid...