Or, you know, in Brooklyn. Please tell us about your faves! Email us here.
Brooklyn
Two friends go to Woodley and Bunny (N10th and Driggs) and get amazing
haircuts every single time. Pricing varies depending on who you go to. Another friend goes to The Beehive (Lorimer and Powers for now) and
also gets an excellent haircut every time, and it’s less expensive than
W&B. —KT
Woodley and Bunny, 490 Driggs in Williamsburg, 718-218-6588 The Beehive, 115 North 7th in Williamsburg, 718-782-8376
I like Laura at Public in Williamsburg. She’s very sweet, and the place is pretty low on attitude. —M.
Public, 101 Metropolitan in Williamsburg, 718-782-4101
Lately I’ve been sticking close to home, in Cobble Hill, and going to
Jenn at Boy Luv Girl on Atlantic. I believe cuts are about $60 and she
does a good job. It’s the kind of place where moms bring their tots for
quick bang trims, so it’s pretty low on the hip factor, but then again,
they do play good music on their iPods. Everyone wins! —M.
Boy Luv Girl, 105 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, 718-596-3868
I get my hair cut at Le Chandelier on 5th in Park Slope. My current
stylist who is fabulous is leaving in a couple of weeks, but I’ve
always had a great cut there!
Le Chandelier, 264 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, 718-783-2457
Lily at Lilypad. It’s a one-woman independent salon. She’s awesome. There
aren’t words. And the cut is like $40. Super-hip, easy to style, and
her best cuts are when you give her some leeway to do what she always
knows is cute. —L.
Lilypad, 555 Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn, 718-387-9337.
Austin
Stacey at Birds Barbershop in Austin, TX cut my hair for years and
sometimes I try to hold out for getting it cut while I’m visiting. I
used to be able to walk in and just say "something amazing" and it
would be perfect. —C.
Right now I get my hair cut with Timiny at BarberElla in Berkeley, CA and the results are nice, but fairly expensive. —C.
BarberElla, 2442 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, 510-548-3552
Boston
I went to Cheryl at Liquid Hair, and she was great and did the cut for
about $40. But I’ve been to a couple other stylists there, and they
were all great, even the newer, cheaper ones were better than any I’ve
gotten in New York. —R.
Liquid Hair, 640 Tremont Street in Boston, 617-425-4848
Fort Worth
I came from Fort Worth, Texas where I would see Beau at Goldwaves Salon. He is fantastic. —L.
Despite my vast, lifelong experience with very difficult hair, and
about a thousand different stylists, I have no one to recommend. Oh,
except for color: Taylor at Paul Labrecque on W. 67th & Columbus
Ave. He’s great. —A.
Paul Labrecque, 160 Columbus Avenue in Manhattan, 212-988-7816
New Orleans
Keith Noonan, Keith Noonan Salon in Metairie, LA (a suburb of New
Orleans). Not cheap, but the only stylist I’ve ever had where I can sit
down in his chair and tell him to have fun and do whatever he wants,
and I never fail to walk away with hair that looks like a million bucks
and that I can style on my own. Its miraculous, really. —S.
After leaving Providence RI for the west coast, and Jamie at Hairspray
on Wickenden Street, I was sad about my hair. I had had the best
hairdresser and the coolest haircut. —Z.
Hairspray, 259 Wickenden Street in Providence, 401-273-9210
Salt Lake City
If you live in Salt Lake City, Dexterity Salon has great stylists. —D.
Dexterity Salon, 777 East 300 South in Salt Lake City, 801-364-1420
San Francisco
I walked into Backstage Salon on a whim, met Zack and told him to do
whatever he wanted to do. He asked me if I was sure, and I told him to
go nuts. Over a foot of hair was taken off and I had the most amazing
bob I have ever seen. I’ve been faithfully going to Zack for over two
years now, and each time I leave looking and feeling fantastic. His
cuts are really artistic, so that my hair is as unique as I am. —Z.
Backstage Salon, 2134 Polk Street in San Francisco, 415-775-1440
Holy COW. We were absolutely floored by how many responses we got for our Baggu/going green contest – and by how amazing the answers were. It reminded us that no matter how much we may think we’re doing, we can always do more. Here’s an excerpt from the winning email:
Well, while being green is nothing new to me and my
mom (she’s been doing it as long as I can remember) we
recently started an organic garden company. It is a
natural alternative to chemlawn type businesses and
uses microbes to enrich and neutralize your soil.
We’ve been touring the grrenfests lately selling our
products and offering our services.
In our own home we do the normal things – engery
saving bulbs, all recycled paper, homemade food for
the dog and cats, and no beauty products with
synthetics – but we’ve also recently converted most of
the electricity we use from wind or solar power (which
has been pretty neat) and built an organic rooftop
vegetable garden that is almost completely
self-sufficient. It doesn’t need fertilizer because of
the restored microbial life and my uncle built a
system that stores excess rainwater for later use.
I’ve really never had more delicious strawberries
ever. EVER.
Congrats to Kate from Chicago for blowing our mind! Send us your mailing address here and we’ll send it to the folks at Baggu! We loved the responses we got, and we’re totally inspired. We learned you guys are recycling old bikes from your parents, shaping the minds of kids, breaking up with significant others who aren’t green minded, not using treadmills, using as many reusable bags as you can possibly carry, taking mass transit, and even not having kids – all with the environment in mind. So, so completely awesome and inspiring.
You’ve inspired us so much we’re going to go buy more Baggu bags right now – remember, enter BUNNY at the coupon section (after you add 6 bags and a storage sack to your cart), and get free standard shipping!
Thanks to everyone who entered! You made us very, very proud and inspired!
Enter by telling us how you’re becoming more eco-friendly. Doesn’t matter how minor you think it is, send it in! Send it here! We’ll announce the winner this afternoon (3pm EST is what we’re aiming for), and Baggu will send you things! And if you want to start/increase/do more green things, go to Baggu, buy 6 bags, a storage sack, and then enter Bunny in the coupon field and huzzah! Free standard shipping!
We had to honor it somehow. That text reads: Teaching Women the Wrong Lessons About Their Commitment Phobic Boyfriends Since 1998. SATC tote bag, $17.99
Meh. Eh. However progressive and female-friendly Tyra surely is, she lost us with ANTM. It’s not that we hate the show—which would be like hating …. we can’t even think of something similarly inconsequential. But do at least sort of look at Martha and Oprah as women who built empires from nothing, or at least not much. (We’re canceling out MS’s early modeling career with the jail stint.) Tyra just seems so … 1994 to us, and we have greater aspirations from America’s next top female mogul—though now that we think of it, we might prefer Tyra to anyone else we can think of. Mary-Kate? Ashlee? Pass. We’ll take more Ellen DeGeneres, please, even if she seems to exhibit little interest in her own line of self-branded sheets at Macy’s.
Blow jobs They’re so unusual! They’re so cool! They’re so perfect for advertising a vodka brand!
Ugh. We hate this ad so much we can’t even muster a written response, as the feeling is entirely visceral. Ugh. We hope it is clear that the image is of a woman applying lipstick immediately adjacent to a man’s belt buckle. And groin.
Our disgust is perhaps compounded by the fact that we are literally on our dentist’s doorsteps, having a panic attack, but whatever.
We just saw a photo of this show, bizarrely, in the KLM in-flight magazine on the way back from South Africa. Isn’t it fucking unbelievable? Here is our latest art school horror story: We were recently waitlisted at an art school with the name "Royal" in it, which was exciting enough on its own, and then last week, they actually told us—and all the other waitlist-ees—that we’d gotten in … by mistake. So we are sort of hating them at the moment, but at the same time, it’s work like this that makes us go … Eh. It’s worth it in the long run. Hope maybe you like as much as we do.
This is like the most amazing idea ever and we honestly are shocked that it was the Gap who came up with up: a whole bunch of t-shirts designed by Whitney Biennial artists. And so many amazing ones! Like Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Sarah Sze, Cai Guo-Qiang—and Hanna Liden (whose tee is left). We actually interviewed Hanna for Nylon last year. She is super cool! We were actually a bit disappointed by her shirt, because we love the design, but that whole bird design printed weirdly, and stiffly—annoying. Also, she used a boy’s tee—er, a man’s tee—so it’s all huge and floaty on us. (The Sze t-shirt is more reasonably proportioned.) It’s sort of an almost-almost situation … but we love the idea so much we’re willing to let it go. We just hope all the artists (well, except for Jeff Koons) are rolling around on the stacks of cash the Gap gave them.
For once, the Gap feels very 2008, rather than 1995. Hurrah!
—S.
