New Additions

Ever keen to expand our all-star team of barbers, we’re delighted to introduce you to a few new starters who’ve joined us in recent weeks and months. Book in with one of them today and see just why we hired them.

Clemence: A whizz at scissor cuts and texture cuts

Store: Trafalgar

Clemence came to join our award-winning London team from France where she previously worked in luxury barber shops. Clemence joins the PMB Trafalgar team with eight years’ experience behind her. She already has a loyal client base who keep coming back for more of her solid professional advice and sharp cuts.

Romeo: Master of skin fading and wet shaves

Store: Fitzrovia

Clients already love Romeo’s friendly, style-conscious approach to barbering, and he’s made himself an indispensable member of the Fitzrovia team with his great advice on gents’ grooming and style. Pop in and say hello or book a wet shave, cut or style consultation with Romeo today

Michael: Simply an outstanding all-round barber

Store: Trafalgar

Cheery barber Michael is never seen without a smile on his face in the Trafalgar store, and brings a whopping twenty years’ barbering expertise to the Pall Mall Barbers team. Book in with him today and see what all the fuss is about! Did we mention that we have an app for that now?

Bookings on the go? We’ve got an app for that!

So you’re stuck in back-to-back meetings all day and have to entertain clients at lunch. Or perhaps you’re working an all-nighter to meet a deadline and have no time to think, let alone schedule in some well-earned professional grooming. We’ve all been there: you’ve been meaning to call your barber all week but there never seems to be any time to sit down with your diary and make that phone call.

Gents, we’ve listened and we’ve come up with a solution. The free Pall Mall Barbers app is now available to download from the Apple App Store. With this handy little app you can manage all your future haircut and wet shave appointments from your iPhone, and view available booking slots with your favourite stylists in real time. The app even allows for cashless transactions if preferred – simply go to ‘Buy Services’ and pay up front for your next treatment securely using your credit card details. In other news, the app also gives you access to PMB special offers and will link you to our social media pages. It also displays all our contact details and updated hours of business for both stores.

And it’s not just for booking your regular treatments either – you can book shaving lessons, friction massages, facials and beard shaping through the app too. All bookings are saved to your personal info section on the app, which stores the dates of all bookings and details of all purchases made for future reference.

Have a play, and let us know what you think!

The Very Thing For Father’s Day…

We’re going to keep this one short and sweet because the message is clear: don’t buy your dad socks, pint glasses or “comedy” golfing tat this Father’s Day. And please, not another tie. He doesn’t need another tie. There is only one thing the old man would love to be given on June 15th this year, and that’s a Pall Mall Barbers voucher for a haircut or a luxury wet shave. Give us a call today on 0207 930 7787and we’ll send one out to you, or pop into our Trafalgar Square or Fitzrovia stores to pick one up. Hey - why not treat yourself as well and book the two of you in for a bit of father-son time over Father’s Day weekend? A cut and shave before the big game, perhaps?

We also sell a whole range of shaving and grooming accessories in store and online, from stunning butterfly razors to badger shaving brushes, our signature styling products as well as offerings from Crew, Jack Black and DR Harris; shaving mugs and stunning deerskin washbags. Another popular gift for the special guy in your life is a shave lesson voucher. Choose between learning how to use a safety razor, double edge razor or an open blade razor, and treat Dad to an hour’s tutorial with one of our shave experts. He’ll pick up loads of tips for getting himself a professional shave in his own bathroom, and may even pass on some tips to you.

And it’s probably worth dropping a few well-timed hints around the kids or your other half if you’re a dad dreading yet more pairs of Homer Simpson socks this coming Father’s Day. Or just spell it out loud and clear, and forward them a link to this page.

Got Plans Monday Night?

We told you we’re popping up all over London this spring, and on Monday evening we’ll be taking part in Men’s Day at Equinox on High Street Ken. A style event in collaboration with MatchesFashion.com, the evening kicks off at 6.30 with a chance to shop an edit curated by none other than Esquire Magazine. We’ll be there all evening dishing out expert style and grooming advice, and some of our best products will be available to try and buy too. Other attractions throughout the evening are refreshments, a HPE Clothing trunk show, a variety of mini spa treatments and a DJ set to finish off the night with.

So be our guest – we’d love to see you there on Monday. Just email gentry.long@equinox.com to get your name on the guest list.

MANicures and Facials in Fitzrovia

Ever look down at your hands tapping away at that keyboard and wonder whether your nails could do with a little TLC? Or could that face of yours do with a bit of attention – a bit of pampering – from time to time? Some professional skincare consultation perhaps, a rejuvenating massage or a good hydrating mask…

As part of our ongoing drive to deliver our customers head-to-toe perfection, we are soon to be offering a range of professional manicures and facials at our Fitzrovia store. Watch this space for more information, but in the meantime let us give you a taste of what will be on offer.

Danae will be performing Express and Luxury Manicures in the chair while you have your hair cut. The Express option takes half an hour and includes a hand massage and skin buff, filing and shaping of the nails, and cuticle removal. The Luxury Mani includes all this and an invigorating scrub for super smooth hands.

The Express Facial take thirty minutes and is also given in the Barber’s chair. This is a soothing and relaxing treatment that’ll fit in with your haircut appointment and leave you feeling super smooth and revitalised. The Signature Facial takes a little longer at 45 minutes, and it’s a more prolonged facial massage with added skincare consultation and a moisturising facial mask treatment.

Ask us in-store for more information about our upcoming treatments, and we hope you’ll book in with us soon. Go on lads, you’re worth it.

Pall Mall Barbers: A Head to Toe Service

Many of our customers often chat to us about the need for a quality shoe care service to help keep them looking sharp from head to toe. And since we always like to give the people what they want, we arranged some meetings with a few shoe polishers in town and are now pleased to announce that we’ve found the Jaunty Flâneur – the very best of the bunch. We’ve already done a couple of events with them in the past few weeks and the response to their shoe polishing service has been fantastic.

Our collaboration with the Jaunty Flâneur is a true meeting of minds: we’re both committed to delivering a great service using quality products. In the Jaunty Flâneur’s case, it’s about using a mixture of mink oil renovator cream to nourish the leather, and shoe cream to return colour to the shoes and get a shine from that all-important beeswax content. This is then topped off with a beeswax polish to protect against water and dirt, and to deliver that visual impact of a high shine.

Their polishing service is available from next week at the Fitzrovia store, so just drop your shoes in with us and then pop in and collect them a week later. Prices start from £12 for a standard polish and £24 for a glaçage (glass-like) polish. They’ll also be offering a full range of high quality cobbler services. If you’ve invested in a pair of shoes, using a good cobbler is a no-brainer and regular maintenance is the key to those kicks lasting a lifetime.

And for those of you keen to take care of your own shoes at home, we’re also working with the Jaunty Flâneur on a range of bespoke polishing kits to be sold in our stores. The kit should be dropping in the summer, so watch this space.

Just call us your all-round concierge service…

http://www.thejauntyflaneur.com/

Pall Mall Barbers in The New York Times

We were really chuffed to have been featured in John Freeman’s superb article on barber shop culture and the tradition of shaving in The New York Times Style Magazine recently. A true wet shave aficionado and a globetrotter like many of the guys and girls on our team, Freeman’s article invites the reader on a journey that stops off in Berber-style tents in the Atlas Mountains and tucked- away corners of Istanbul. He meets espresso drinking barbers in Beirut and vodka-pouring stylists in Manhattan. And then, he rounds off his article with the icing on the cake: us. Freeman says of our Fitzrovia store:

The tiles were gleaming white, the countertops granite and the barber’s brush was made of badger, not horsehair. My barber looked a lot like Stanley Tucci (must’ve been Elias…) but spoke with a South London accent… All I could feel was the gentle sweep of his blade, his occasional request for more hot towels. Time slowed down… all else was right with the world.

We totally agree with Freeman’s belief that visiting a barber shop, wherever you are in the world, is a reassuring ritual that connects us with others and reminds us that we’re all human and have the same basic needs. Popping into a barber shop for a wet shave is a bit like, as Freeman says, going out for a coffee or heading to a bar for a drink. It makes the world feel less alien, helps us ‘gain a foothold’ when we’re in unfamiliar places.

And getting a wet shave is good for the soul, too. Freeman’s had his fair share of shaves around the world and would happily trade an hour on the therapist’s couch for 45 minutes in the barber’s chair: “There’s so little we can actually control in this world, but even the unruliest beard can be managed.”

Amen to that. You can read John Freeman's full article here: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/yes-please-the-razors-edge/