$100 Haircut in LAHORE, PAKISTAN 🇵🇰

Four hours in a high-end men’s grooming salon in Lahore with Mac — eleven till three, which surprises Harry as much as anyone. The package runs a fade, a full clean shave, a facial in about seven stages, and a manicure and pedicure, and he has had none of it before beyond a haircut.

Two things are worth carrying out of it. The hygiene: every tool is soaked in disinfectant between uses, and he calls it the cleanest barber he has been to anywhere in the world. And the price: 17,400 rupees, roughly $95 (from video – unverified — he doesn’t make clear whether that covers both of them), for four hours of work by several people.

He is also direct about why he did it — the best available in the city, content for the channel, and treating themselves after a hard fortnight — and about the gender question, saying plainly that grooming treatments should be as normal for men as for anyone and that he intends to keep having them.

Obs: the salon is not named. The video is a full treatment package with the venue credited in the description, which under this bundle’s rule puts it in the same class as a linked salon; only the process and prices are recorded. Auto-generated subtitles; ambiguous amounts carry the unverified marker.

Key moments

• [03:16] The haircut: a fade up the sides, nothing off the top. His barber has been cutting for four and a half years.
• [09:05] The clean shave, and the technique behind it — a hot towel first to soften the hair and lift its direction, then layered creams and oils, then a freshly disinfected razor.
• [13:13] The disinfection, which he keeps returning to: tools soaked between every use, more thoroughly than anywhere he has been.
• [15:22] His barber’s summary of the country, unprompted: Pakistan is safe now, ten years ago it might not have been, and people here look after visitors.
• [17:24] The facial, stage by stage: cleanser, toner, a deep clean brushed on, an enzyme peel, an exfoliator, then a clay mask over the whole face including the eyelids, peeled off in one piece.
• [21:41] Chai brought to the chair, which prompts his verdict for the trip: Pakistani chai is better than English tea, and he says he knows how that sounds.
• [24:32] Manicure and pedicure together, with a sea salt, vitamin E and oil scrub, and a good deal of dead skin removed by machine.
• [25:05] On men and grooming: he expects some viewers to think it isn’t something men do, says it should be perfectly normal, and that he will keep doing it.
• [29:43] 17,400 rupees, about $95 (from video – unverified), for four hours. His justification is stated in three parts and none of them is that it was cheap.
• [06:28] Food notes from the chair: nihari is the Lahore dish he still hasn’t tried, and cheese paratha remains the thing he hunts for.
• [07:29] Alcohol is not legal for Muslims here; he mentions a room in his hotel where it can be had (from video – unverified — the transcript garbles the word).

Extracted pages

• Lahore
• Pakistan
• Mac