We put out the decision for the very best Houston-area Black barbershops, and also you, Defender readers, responded. Listed here are the outcomes, with a number of phrases of testimony besides.
BLACKSTAR BARBERS & BOOKS
17675 TX-249, Suite 61, Houston, TX 77064(346) 249-9005T_shabazz1@yahoo.comBlackstar12.booksy.com
“I am going to BlackStar Barbers & Books. My man Terrance Woodard is a good barber to start with. He’s additionally personable. I like that he has his personal non-public house and it’s one buyer at a time, which grew to become a factor throughout COVID. I am going on-line and guide the appointment time I need and also can pay on-line so it’s very handy, too.” – Terrance Harris, Defender Community Professional/Faculty Sports activities Editor
EXQUISITE BARBER AND BEAUTY BAR
21502 Aldine Westfield Rd., Humble, TX 77338(281) 383-9773
“My barber, Mike Moffett, shares nice tales and at all times has a gem of knowledge to provide you.” – Ronnie C II
HD TONSORIUM BARBER SHOP
16427 W Little York Rd, Houston, TX 77084(832) 593-4276www.hdtonsorium.com
This spot does males’s haircuts and beard care, girls’s haircuts and child’s haircuts. The critiques on their web site are via the roof with positivity. However the testimony that speaks loudest to me comes from a brother of the utmost integrity I’ve interviewed for a number of articles prior to now, Claudell Cannady. His phrases aren’t even all that “over-the-top” glowing; they’re simply straight and to the purpose, and communicate to his dedication to HD Tonsorium, a dedication that Cannady solely provides to establishments of the very best high quality. Cannady merely says, “I’ve been going to HD Tonsorium for a number of completely different homeowners. At all times the identical high quality.”
LOVELL’S BEAUTY & BARBER SALON
5616 Reed Rd., Houston, TX 77033(713) 734-9310(832) 474-2221
“Lovell’s Barbershop has been in enterprise since I used to be in kindergarten!” – Ronnie Niles
MIDTOWN BARBERSHOP
6406 Tierwester St., Houston, TX 77021(713) 522-2065
Midtown Barbershop was in a constructing on Almeda till a enterprise moved in subsequent door that stored on rising and rising and rising. That enterprise—The Turkey Leg Hut. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless all good. Midtown moved to a location on Tierwester off OST and has been doing the identical quantity of huge enterprise with the identical Black barbershop taste our tradition has come to know and count on. Right here’s one testimony: “I like how welcoming my barber, Eric Eason, is, and the way he’s keen to elucidate issues, completely different haircuts, and every step he takes in hooking up my head. I really feel like household there,” stated Amari Sadiq Walker (15) who has been a Midtown buyer since he was four-years-old.
