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BARBER that can actually cut BLONDE straight (thin) hair into a FRENCH CROP???
For those who don't know: it's that hair cut with the more or less straight fringe that looks like it continues into… I just want anything similar to a French Crop, cut with somewhat decent technique!
For those who don't know: it's that hair cut with the more or less straight fringe that looks like it continues into the fade on the sides:
https://mensflair.com/french-crop-haircut/?img=23322
How can it be that almost every second guy has this hair cut in the last years and i struggle to find a Barber that can give me the same???
Anywhere i went so far they either don't really understand what i want or claim to absolutely know what i mean, but then somehow fuck it up anyways. It's probably my hair structure or something...
So for quiet some time i'm now in this cycle of letting my hair grow to enough of length to work with then being anxious about chosing a new barber, where i try my luck, to then just get a mediocre result at best and then the same thing starts again... with mediocre i mean things like that it looks somewhat okay in the salon and when i go home and wash my hair first time suddenly i have a super uneven fringe. And the point of this hair cut is the straight fringe. Also growing back the hair can take a few months if the haircut is much short then it's supposed to be.
So in the last years i tried many things: from regular german hairdressers over more "cool" german salons and also quiet expensive salons (70€ for short men's haircut) and then of obviously many arab / turkish barbers.
The latter often don't even know what i mean when i say "French Crop". One was telling me "we call it Spanish" and then kept on making the same stupid joke saying "Frosch Kropf" while he was cutting my hair...
PLEASE HELP!
Have you tried Biergarten Barber near Boxhagener Platz? It's a small shop, the guy who runs it is Polish and actually trained as a classical hairdresser before switching to barber work. He'll cut you for around 35 euro and he's one of the few people in Berlin who actually uses scissors on the top instead of just buzzing everything into a basic fade. Thin blonde hair needs someone who understands weight distribution, not just clipper guards, and he gets that.
Try Cut Club on Weserstraße in Neukölln. It's 40 euro for a cut and the guys there actually work with fine hair instead of just buzzing everything off. Ask for Luca, he's Italian and gets the whole textured fringe thing without going overboard on the fade. Tell him you want the fringe disconnected from the sides and cut with scissors only on top. The trick with thin blonde hair is they need to point-cut into the ends rather than using a straight line across, and most barbers just default to clippers everywhere.
You're not crazy, this is a common issue with thin straight hair because the weight and fall of the fringe changes completely once product and styling are gone. I'd suggest trying Herr von Eden in Mitte, they're a bit pricier around 55-60 euros but they actually understand European cuts and texture rather than just doing the standard Berlin fade. Ask for Felix, he's got a steady hand with scissors and won't rush the front. Also bring the photo on your phone and be specific about keeping the fringe length at eyebrow level when dry, not wet, since that's where most barbers mess it up.
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What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.