KENNEDY’S BARBER CLUB BLOG: THE BRAVEST BARBERSHOP IN THE WORLD

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Here at Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club, we make it a point to keep up with the latest barbershop developments all across the world. If we didn’t, what kind of Barber Club would we be? A sadly uninformed one and our Kennedy’s customers deserve more than that!

So, on February 19th, when a barbershop shattered a world record in Dublin, Ireland, we, of course, were privy to the exciting news. And, as our name is Kennedy’s – a proper Irish name – we felt, in some small part, related to the event. Okay, a very small part, since none of us actually is named “Kennedy.”

Nonetheless, our excitement was also tempered by a wee bit of horror.

You see, the record that was broken in at The Style Club on South William Street was that of shaving the most heads in an hour. To be more precise, 60 heads were shaved in under 60 minutes.

We strongly believe that shaving should not be a speed sport. It’s true that it sometimes comes out that way when we’ve hit the snooze button on the alarm too many times in the morning, and we suddenly find ourselves swiping frenetically at our face with our 6-bladed razor, hoping we don’t take off part of an ear in our desperate effort to get to work on time, but that’s inadvertent speed-shaving. In that Dublin barbershop, it was a planned event.

We shouldn’t carp too much. After all, it was a benefit for the Irish Cancer Society and no heads were actually injured in the chop-shop frenzy. But a barber coming at us with a razor with the intent to cut off as much as possible in as short a time as possible… well, feels like a Sweeney Todd moment to us.

No, we’d much prefer, on this side of the Atlantic, to have the Kennedy’s Barber Club go for the slowest shaving record. Especially with our Signature straight razor shave. Imagine, being able to sit back, feel the warm shaving cream on our face and have it slooooowly scraped off by the straight razor while it creates the smoothest face we’ve felt in weeks!

Oh, sorry. We blanked out there. We think we just got a quick glimpse of the afterlife…there was a blinding white light…coming from a barber pole…?

Anyway, a tip of the Kennedy’s hat to master barber John Galway and the 60 brave souls who risked life, limb and head to make a difference to a great charity. We’re inviting all of you to visit your nearby Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™ to help us break the kind of record we think should be challenged – the world’s longest nap.

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