Shear Genius

Was there a way I could learn to grow a great beard, if I’ve never been able to?

“You don’t get the same feeling here that you do at one of those froufrou places. You can come here and be a man.”

“The conversation in here is never just between the barber and the client. It’s between everyone in the room.”

Regulars include downtown professionals, famous drop-ins (Andrew Luck’s beard hair regularly graces Red’s floors), and groomsmen celebrating what, for some, will be their last gulp of the masculine bonhomie sold here.

“Doing things the classic way is the right way.”

Adrian Bannon sees his establishment not just as a grooming center, but as a man-friendly, brick-and-mortar adjunct to social media.

How to get the style you want, hipster beard-growing tips, and the gear you need to stock your medicine cabinet.

In the late ’70s, we were down to about 195,000 barbers nationally. But at the dawn of the new millennium, things turned around. Now there are about 300,000 barbers.