But studies also show something else interesting about how women respond to men’s features. The fact is…chicks dig scars!

Seriously. English researchers at the Universities of Liverpool and Stirling showed women a series of pictures of men with and without facial scars. The women rated the scarred faces as being more attractive. And yes, they tried the experiment in reverse – men did not respond more favorably to scarred women (no word if Tina Fey was included in the test group!).

Believe it or not, the study gets more specific – and a little weirder. Men’s scars were only sexier when it seemed as though they were the result of violence or injury – not the result of acne or chickenpox. The researchers think that’s because a scar from violence of some sort indicates some kind of truly macho guy – whereas a scar from disease or pimples doesn’t quite carry the same cachet.

So what does this all mean? Well, we’re not saying taking a knife to your face is going to get you more dates or anything like that. But if you find yourself falling on a pile of rocks…maybe lead with your chin.

And when you’re ready to take care of the rest of your face, visit a Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™ near you. Women may like a sexy little scar, but they don’t like the rest of your features to be a mess! Plus, we’ll give you “The Best Haircut and Straight Razor Shave You’ve Ever Had or It’s Free”™.

So look for the nearest Kennedy’s location near you – and find out about our terrific franchise opportunities - at http://www.kennedysbarberclub.com. And sorry, we do not provide scarring services!

Take the tradition of Barber Shop jokes – please! Something you could always count on getting from your favorite barber was hearing the latest funny story making the rounds – and watching everybody else in the place either laugh or groan, depending on how hilarious – or corny – the joke was.

With that in mind, imagine you’re in one of our luxurious barber chairs and getting hot lather delicately put on your face in preparation for a close straight-razor shave, while one of our licensed barber pros relates a few industry-related jokes - all of which begin with the key phrase, “Guy comes into a barber shop…”

Guy comes into a barber shop with a little boy. Guy sits down and gets the full treatment - haircut and straight razor shave. After he’s done, he motions for the boy to take his place in the chair, then turns to the barber and says, “Be right back, I have to pick up something at the drugstore.” The barber finishes the boy’s haircut and waits – but the guy doesn’t come back. He finally turns to the boy and says, “Did your dad forget about you?” The kid answers, “Oh, he’s not my dad. He just walked up to me on the street, said, ‘come on, we’re gonna get free haircuts,’ and brought me in here.”

Guy comes into a barber shop, sits down in the chair and the barber begins prepping him for a shave. A hot, sexy, blonde woman bends down at the guy’s feet and starts giving him a shoe shine. The guy starts remarking on how hot she is, and how he’d like to spend some time in a hotel room with her. The blonde says, “I don’t think my husband would like that.” Guy says, “Who cares?” The blonde replies, “You should, he’s the one who’s shaving you.”

Finally, here’s what we consider the all-time classic barber joke. Guy comes into a barber shop. Barber asks “What’ll it be?” Guy says, “I’d like one sideburn two inches longer than the other, the hair in the back really jagged and uneven, and make sure I have a really weird wave on top that won’t go away.” Barber says, “Why in the world would you want that?” Guy turns to him and says, “Hey, that’s how you cut it last time.”

Rest assured, that’s NOT how we’re going to cut your hair at our Kennedy’s Barber Clubs – because we guarantee “The Best Haircut and Straight Razor Shave You’ve Ever Had – Or It’s Free!” We can’t guarantee the funniest jokes – but we’ll sure give it a good try!

Find out more about Kennedy’s locations and franchise opportunities at www.KennedysBarberClub.com.

Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™ thought it was in our best interests to do a little research and find out what the ladies like when it comes to a man’s hair style.

Yes, both Kid Rock and Tommy Lee got Pamela Anderson and neither of them is known for having a buzz cut. But it turns out, for the most part, the girls like it short or very short, not long.

Dr. Kelley Kline, a researcher at Florida State University, did a study a while back analyzing how hairstyles affect sexual attractiveness. And it turned out to be bad news for everyone from Tarzan to Fabio – women overall preferred short hair on a man and saw it as a sign of virility.

(By the way - since baldness wasn’t an option on the survey, all of you in the hair-challenged community shouldn’t assume you can take those results an extra step and pretend that no hair is the sexiest look of all! No offense, Joe the Plumber!)

The study also switched it up and looked into which female hairstyles men thought were the most attractive. This time, it’s Pam Anderson’s turn to cry – because most men preferred thick long brunette hair. So blondes may have more fun, but brunettes apparently get more dates. We’re not sure how that works, but who are we to argue with scientists?

What is clear is that both sexes seem to lock on to familiar stereotypes – men traditionally have short hair, women traditionally have long hair. And that’s apparently comforting when you’re looking for love.
So guys, scientifically-speaking, regular visits to the barber seem to be a good idea when it comes to the business of romance. May we humbly suggest a nearby Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™? We offer the classic barber shop experience - with a lot of awesome modern amenities, such as free beverage service and the best in men’s grooming products.

Find out more about Kennedy’s Barber Club locations and franchise opportunities at www.kennedysbarberclub.com. And keep cutting it close, guys – because length does matter after all!

Funny thing, though. After the hours and hours and hours (and hours) of these party flacks handicapping the race in every possible way, one important topic was completely overlooked – barber shops!

You don’t think barber shops matter in presidential politics? Think again.

May 18th, 1993. When then-President Bill Clinton apparently didn’t have time to visit the local barber shop, it was reported that he held up air traffic while he sat on Air Force One on an LAX runway getting a haircut from super-exclusive Beverly Hills hairstylist Christophe. This created an enormous uproar and accusations of elitism that finally forced Clinton to issue a public apology.

A similar high-priced barber brouhaha struck Democratic candidate John Edwards during this past presidential primary season, when it was revealed that his campaign had paid a different high-priced Beverly Hills celebrity stylist, Joseph Torrenueva, $400 to cut Edwards’ hair. That turned out to be a pipsqueak of a scandal compared to “The National Enquirer” catching him cheating on his wife, which, luckily for the Dems, happened way after his campaign closed up shop.

Let’s face facts. These two incidents prove that most American people just don’t think guys should be getting their locks looked after by Beverly Hills prima donnas with their own styling salons. We agree and that’s why we started Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club, a new franchise business that brings back the classic barber shop experience, complete with straight razor shaves, where a man can be a man -and still get as good a cut as any 90210 ninny can provide.

And hey, getting a quality modestly-priced haircut demonstrates a certain moral authority. George W. Bush? Thirty bucks a haircut. Barack Obama? Twenty-one bucks. Has anybody ever caught those guys cheating on their wives? Nope.

Anyway, you can find out more about the Kennedy’s barber shop business and franchise opportunities at http://www.kennedysbarberclub.com. And remember – a Kennedy was president too. Okay, he fell more into the Clinton-Edwards camp than the McCain-Obama one. But his hair always did look awfully good.

Take liquor and beer. You’ll probably say, “Booze! Of course! People drink more when times are bad!” Actually, we always drink the same amount (apparently, we can’t help ourselves!) – the only thing that changes is that we stay home and drink, instead of going out to get lubricated. Guess we save on bar nuts and bartender tips that way.

Then there’s movies. During five out of the last seven recessions in America, the box office has boomed. Especially when gas prices started skyrocketing early this year and “stay-cations” were suddenly all the rage, people still had to find opportunities to get out of the house for a few hours – and the newest special effects extravaganza was certainly a great way to do it. Apparently, some stay - cations - might actually cause “cabin fever”.

We here at Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club wrote about one of the most unusual economic signs in our recent article, “How Haircuts Help in Hard Times.” It’s called The Lipstick Indicator Theory, first noted by Leonard Lauder, chairman of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company. Believe it or not, lipstick sales generally spike during bad economic times. Lauder noticed it happening after the post 9/11 stock market slide. When money gets tight, people splurge on affordable luxuries when they can’t afford the more expensive ones.

As we noted in the article, The Lipstick Indicator Theory has brought a boom to our barbershop business. Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club, if you’re unaware, is a new franchise that caters to “distinguished gentlemen” looking for a relaxing sanctuary from everyday woes and worries – as well as a place to get great haircuts and terrific hot lather, straight-razor shave administered by an expert, licensed barber. It’s definitely an affordable luxury for guys, just as buying lipstick is for women – so, as the Dow dives, our barber chairs just keep filling up.

Obviously, we can’t be happy about the Worldwide Market Madness. We are happy that people are discovering what’s unique and cool about Kennedy’s, though. All of our Kennedy’s franchises feature a lot of great grooming products and extra services in a classic barbershop atmosphere that makes a guy feel like a guy – and we think that’s the real reason for our success. You can check out our locations and franchise opportunities at http://www.kennedysbarberclub.com.

And, by the way – we don’t sell lipstick. And we Guarantee we never will.

What you might not think is the fact that they all know how to escape close shaves…yes actually, they love to get them. The old-fashioned way - in a barber chair.

For years, the number of classic licensed barbers has been on the decline. You remember them – the ones who gave you the great hot-towel-and-lather straight-razor shaves? Well, according to an article from Forbes this August , that kind of barber shop coming back into style – because, frankly, we think guys want to be guys again. They don’t want to hang out at upscale metro-sexual salons to get the right kind of “styling” and they don’t want to deal with cheap, strip-mall haircut franchises just to get a simple haircut.

And it’s also about what one Forbes reader posted online after he read their barber shop article, about how his wife gave him the barber shop treatment:

“My wife planned a birthday surprise about three years ago. She told me not to shave for about four days leading up to my birthday…I got a shave. I have been shaving since I was 14, and that was the first time anyone else shaved me, and it certainly has not been the last. I have given friends of mine the gift of a shave, and we have made a day of it. There is something about the way a straight-edge razor gives the perfect shave.”

Amen to that! That’s why we decided to start our exclusive barbershop franchise, Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™. We missed the old shave-and-a-haircut experience, too – and we figured if we added all the modern extras, such as new grooming products, beverage service and other amenities, we’d have the perfect answer to today’s diminished barber businesses for men. As one guy put it in the Forbes article, “It’s a way for men to get groomed without doing the ‘walk of shame’ they’d have to do in a female salon.”

We love our new barbershop businesses and so do our customers. Explore our concept more at our website at www.kennedysbarberclub.com. There you can find out about our barbershop locations and also about franchise opportunities available for this exciting new idea. Kennedy’s combines the best of the past with what’s great about today – and, as the Forbes article makes clear, that’s something we all should want a piece of.

That’s why it’s good to be a celebrity (besides all the fame and fortune, I mean). When they need a shave, they get it done in style – by the kind of personnel every man definitely wants to have in his face.

Take Sting, for example. A good example, since the vast majority of us males screech “Roxanne” while we’re shaving. (Not to mention that Nick saw the first Police comeback performance at the GRAMMY® awards in 2007 and Chris flew to see them on their closest stop to Orlando, which was Atlanta. Yeah, we’re fans.) When Sting did the reunion tour with The Police earlier this year, he grew a long grey beard and was starting to look like some kind of lost Nordic explorer.

So he did all his fans – and his face – a big favor at The Police’s final concert at Madison Square Garden – and turned the stage into his own barber shop, as he got shaved onstage by a couple of beauts who knew how to take care of business – even if we’re not too sure they actually had a barber license between them.

Watch what happened here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-DYyMWAUo and read more about what happened that memorable night on Sting’s own website here: www.sting.com/archives/tours/tours.php.

Then there was talk show legend David Letterman. When the writer’s strike sidelined his show for months, he grew himself his own Mountain Man beard. When he came back on the air, it was once again “Big, Rich Star” gets hot chick to shave him in public.

Watch the one-liners fly here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfK0OqWdBc8

Obviously, there’s something special about getting someone else to do your shaving for you that’s pretty cool, or guys like that wouldn’t make such a big deal out of it. It goes back to the old barber shop experience that’s almost completely vanished – where a guy got to lie back in the barber chair, get the professional straight razor shave that’s as close as possible and walk away looking good - and feeling better.

That’s the feel we’re trying to recreate at our brand new line of Kennedy’s All-American Barber Clubs – the best of the old-time barber shop experience, but with all the modern amenities, such as modern grooming products and beverages. We wanted to start a franchise where guys could go and feel good about getting their hair cut again – not have to sit in a discount, unisex salon waiting for their turn. And we think we’ve succeeded.

You can check out our locations and franchise opportunities at www.kennedysbarberclub.com. You might not find Sting or David Letterman in our barber shops – but you’ll find local celebrities and other discerning gentlemen among a professional friendly bunch of making your shave and haircut a downright pleasurable experience.

But one of the absolute best parts of that barber shop visit was one that’s now almost completely a lost art. That’s a shave with a straight-razor. Most of us men are used to just quickly running an electric shaver, or some other multi-bladed razor across our face while we get ready for work. In the good old days, you could sit back in the barber chair, get a fresh hot towel and lather all over your face and have your friendly neighborhood barber make your face feel as smooth as a baby’s…skin.

Now there are limited opportunities to have that amazing experience…with today’s strip-mall haircut franchises dominating the landscape, and older barber shops being put up for sale . It’s still great when a barber shop does things the old-fashioned way – just take a look at how film and television star Matthew Modine gets himself the deluxe straight razor service every morning to start his day off right – check out this link (go about three and a half minutes into the show to see the barber shop segment…Surely you can tolderate Issac for a few minutes can’t you?):

www.truveo.com/Getting-Shaved-with-Matthew-Modine/id/743187820

As you can see from that YouTube clip, it’s easy to get the impression that the straight-razor shave treatment is headed the way of the buggy-whip and icebox businesses. We couldn’t bear to see that happen – which is why we decided to start a barbershop franchise that we call Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™, an exciting and innovative group of barber shop franchises that brings back the reassuring feel of yesteryear’s shave-and-a-haircut with the best of today’s amenities and grooming products. At one of our Kennedy’s barber shops, you can buy a ticket back to “Nostalgia Central” – and get, as our slogan guarantees, “The best haircut and straight razor shave you’ve ever had, or it’s free!”

Find out more about Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club™ locations and franchise opportunities at www.kennedysbarberclub.com. It’s an idea whose time has come…Again!

We look forward to hearing from you!