Women all over Long Island are busting through the doors of what has traditionally been a male, closed club: The barber shop. Armed with straight razors, edgers, clippers, beard trimmers and scissors, ...

“Short-haired women — we’re like a squad. It’s hard to explain, but we immediately compliment each others' hair and ask where we got it done,” says Elena Polson, a New York graphic designer who sports ...

The owner of DJ’s Barber Shoppe in Ravenna looks forward to getting a new barber — her daughter — sometime around Thanksgiving. DJ’s owner Doreen Rybczynski went through Akron Barber College back in ...

It’s a situation familiar to many women: They go to the hair salon for a cut and spend a small fortune, while their male partners, brothers, uncles, and guy friends spend considerably less in the ...

That’s what third-generation Santa Barbaran Richie Ramirez had in mind when he started to bring aboard female barbers not long after opening shop in 2010. The first was Lauren Rundquist, who ...

Getting a haircut in a small town used to be a story-finding strategy for Texas Country Reporter, but the tale of Blanche Harris is one of my favorites. There is a lot of jargon in our business, terms ...