Barber Evo - December 2017

"New year, new me. Realistically new year, same me but slightly fatter and more bitter. Anyway, we’ve got quite the issue for you to kick off what could be one of the most important years for barbering and male grooming.

Kicking off – you’ll understand the poor pun later – we have everybody’s favourite Irish, barber battling, travelling barber, Ms Leah Hayden Cassidy and the similarly nomadic Edinburgh-born Australian Men’s Hairdresser of The Year Tori Gill, whom recently collaborated with Kevin Luchmun in New York. You can read his diary from the Big Apple on page, well, check the contents.

Interviewer extraordinaire Larry The Barberman manages to pin down (not literally) all three directors of Menspire and Jody Taylor, and I finally get to interview Mark Maciver, AKA Slider Cuts – barber to two of my favourite human beings on the planet, AJ and Stormzy.

We also dive into the dichotomy of fashion in the industry, the artwork that has been inspired by it and the Bloody Butcher himself gives us a tour of his tattoos. There is, of course, also some factual-based stuff that may be of interest to you all.

Oh, and don’t turn to page 83 if you’ve just eaten. Ok, do it, but you’ve been warned."