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$45 LUXURY Pakistani Haircut 🇵🇰
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$45 LUXURY Pakistani Haircut 🇵🇰
Back in Islamabad after seven days in the north, Harry goes for a trim and comes out ninety minutes later having had, by his own count, seven or eight separate treatments he did not ask for and could not name.
He found the place by searching, and says how: not barbers near me but best barbers, and this was the first result. It is the opposite of the usual warning about search results, and he checks the theory with the staff, who confirm they get both tourists and locals on the back of it.
The other thing worth keeping is the ride there. The Uber driver tried to refuse the fare, and only stopped because Harry had already paid by card — which by this point in the trip he treats as unremarkable. Asked about his own city, the driver’s line is that there are more good people here than bad, and Harry’s answer is that he has not had a single bad experience in four weeks.
Obs: the barbershop is not named. Harry publishes its Facebook page in the description and says on camera that he will — which is the trigger for leaving it unnamed here, exactly as with the Lahore salon. What the treatment consists of and what it costs are recorded in full.
Key moments
- [00:30] An Uber across Islamabad: 250 rupees for a 20-minute ride. He considers a motorbike, which is cheaper, and decides against it.
- [01:00] Seven days in Hunza has recalibrated him — Islamabad in January now feels mild.
- [01:32] The driver refuses payment, and gives up only because the card payment has already gone through. More good people than bad here — against Harry’s four weeks without one bad experience.
- [04:56] How he found it: he searched “best barbers”, not “barbers near me”. They came up first, which he puts to them directly, and they confirm the search brings them both tourists and locals.
- [05:26] Watching Mac’s extraction from the next chair: the amount of dirt that was inside my pores — it’s like having surgery.
- [06:30] The barber has seven years’ experience and is from Punjab.
- [07:30] Cricket on in the shop: Pakistan against the West Indies, T20. Harry played street cricket in Lahore.
- [09:41] He learns that tk is “theek” — fine, or OK — after hearing his Uber driver say it and mishearing it as TikTok.
- [10:45] He has never shaved himself since Jordan. First clean shave of his life was there; three since, all done for him, and he expects the price at home to end the habit.
- [11:16] Steam, then water, then a shave he calls the most thorough he has had — every single hair.
- [13:21] Cleansing cream applied like a massage, cold on the skin.
- [14:23] The moment he becomes a convert: his face can breathe, and he finally understands why every content creator he knows is into skincare. His own context — five days without a shower in Hunza.
- [16:06] Blackhead and whitehead extraction, which hurts enough to make his eyes water, and which he rates as working.
- [17:40] A hydrating stage, then a galvanic electric device, which is a buzz rather than a shock, then another massage, another cream, and a mask to close the pores.
- [20:16] Ninety minutes, for something he came in expecting to be a haircut.
- [21:39] The nose gets its own cleaning; the massaging carries on after they are finished.
- [22:44] His comparison: the very expensive Lahore treatment was as good, and he can’t separate them.
- [26:00] 8,000 rupees, about $40, against Mac’s 3,000 — the difference being eyebrows and the extra stages. He tips 1,000 on top. Not cheap by Pakistani standards and he says so, and he would do it again, just not weekly.