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.”
Trends come and go, and that applies to almost everything from fashion to food to makeup, and of course, hairstyles. People who don’t own pets might not know, but apparently, there are trends for doggy haircuts as well.
Some “trendy” dog owners and pet groomers in Taiwan have taken to giving their dogs very shapely haircuts so that they look different from the rest. These doggy haircuts are so impeccably done, they’re literally in shape.
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