COVID-19 has taken away pretty well everything including the ability to get a haircut. And my 5-year-old son’s hair was growing long, so I took a bold step and decided to give him a haircut at home.
I was nervous about it since I didn’t want to mess up his hair, but I knew it would grow back. So, I did a quick Google search of “how to cut a mohawk on a little boy” because I know about my son’s affinity for having a mohawk. So I began with the electric razor I use for my beard that my uncle got me one year for my birthday.
I buzzed around the sides like the video showed me but, unfortunately for my boy, the electric razor died when I got to the back. That made his hair look really off as I charged it overnight. How to cut a mohawk on a little boy… more like how NOT to cut a mohawk on a little boy, as evidenced by the sadness my son had in the haircut.
But the next morning while my son was eating his breakfast, I finished off buzzing the back and then I scissor cut the top to the best of my ability. The result was actually a pretty impressive haircut for my first time & my significant other let me know it, too. My son felt bald because of how closely I buzzed his hair at the end and kept touching it out of curiosity.
The photo to the left is when the razor died and the photo to the right is the final product. Not too shabby if I say so myself!
My First Haircuts at Twins Barber Shop
As you can tell from the multitude of business cards I put in this blog post for Twins Barber Shop in Bay Shore NY, this is the first place I ever got a haircut. And I know I was a handful when it came time to get my hair trimmed.
At 5 years old, my son was calm getting his haircut. As for me… I was not a fan of going to the barber shop since I remember always feeling like the scissors cutting my hair would equate to getting cuts on my skin.
I wasn’t the only one traumatized by getting a haircut. The barbers at Twins Barber Shop would know me by face and they would either find a way to hide in the back room or conveniently take their lunch break. Eventually, as I’ve been told by my mother, one of them would have the courage to come out and then do my hair.
And getting me ready for my haircut was an adventure in of itself. Here are the steps of making sure 5-year-old me would get my hair cut properly:
- My mother would have to sit in the barber’s chair.
- I would have to sit on my mother’s lap.
- My mother would have to wrap her legs around mine.
- My mother would have to bear hug my arms & find a way to hold my head in place.
- I would scream bloody murder as the barber would have to hold my head while cutting.
I remember Twins Barber Shop’s first location was the 700 Sunrise Highway one and it was inside of the mini-mall that contained a couple of stores. It was on an awkward elevation with the big name store being a Stearns that eventually became a Macys if it’s not mistaken.
I stuck with them as that mini-mall was converted into an empty lot, followed by a Lowes, and they moved a block over to a new location in the Gardiner Manor Mall. For years, Gene was my go-to barber until I graduated college.
Twins is still in business to this day, though I’m sure some of the older men who were there when I got my hair cut are retired.
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