Styling tips from fifth-generation owner of a business that began before samurai were allowed to cut their top-knots.
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See-through and strapless, the new masks help getting a haircut in the new normal feel a little more like it did in the old normal.
Start the next chapter of your love life, real-world or otherwise, with a new hairdo from the Heartbreak Salon.
A huge victory in the metrosexual rights movement was made last week when the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare decided to abolish a guideline which stated that “men should not be able to get haircuts at beauty salons.”
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