Tim's Barbers

For thousands of years man has been fighting a battle with his facial hair - over 25,000 hairs as hard as copper wire of the same thickness. The hairs grow between 125mm and 150mm per year and man will spend an average of more than 3,000 hours of his life shaving them. Egyptians shaved their beards and heads which was a custom adopted by the Greeks and Romans about 330BC during the reign of Alexander the Great. This was encouraged for soldiers as a defensive measure to stop enemies from grabbing their hair in hand-to-hand combat. As shaving spread through the world, men of unshaven societies became known as "barbarians" meaning the "unbarbered".

Men scraped their hair away in early times man with crude items such as stone, flint, clam shellsand other sharpened materials. He later experimented with bronze, copper and iron razors.For hundreds of years razors maintained a knife-like design and needed to be sharpened by the owner or a barber with the aid of a honing stone or leather strop.

Shaving predates history but it was the early Egyptian men and women who really established shaving and hair removal as a regular part of daily grooming. And the custom continues today for people all over the world. In Mesopotamia barbers were held in the highest regard by society like a doctor or dignitary.

Each town had a street or an area where a number of barber shops could be found. These barbers took great care of the general public by shaving their clients daily with razors and pumice stones then massaging perfumed oils and lotions into their skin.

On ancient wall murals proves that some Egyptians did have hair on their faces. Even with their obsession for personal cleanliness they also thought though that a beard was the sign of a real man, of masculinity and dignity since the beginning of time and that it could give a man status.

From ancient times to modern times and stones to razors, the evolution of shaving & grooming, continues today with Tim’s Barber. With our traditional and unique Turkish style, we will change the world of men forever.