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Leslie Road barbershop off Alderbridge, open seven days including Sunday afternoons. Fades, scissor cuts and beard shaping, bookable online, which helps because the chairs fill up quickly on weekends.
Book the chair rather than turning up hopeful. Lookin Sharp takes appointments online, and that is the detail worth using, because chairs at any decent barbershop fill on weekends and the alternative is forty minutes in a plastic seat reading your phone. The work here is barbering rather than salon styling: fades, scissor cuts and beard shaping. Those are different trades with different training, and anyone who wants a proper fade does better in a shop that does them all day.
Leslie Road sits just off Alderbridge in West Cambie, a part of Richmond most people drive through rather than stop in. The area runs north of Alderbridge and east of the Golden Village malls, mixing newer townhouse developments with light industrial units and strip plazas, and the Aberdeen end of No. 3 Road is a short drive west. A shop here serves the surrounding blocks and the people working nearby rather than catching any passing trade.
That shapes what you wait and what you pay. Neighborhood barbershops away from the tower corridors generally run shorter queues and more ordinary prices than the same haircut in a City Centre building. Turn up on time for the slot, because a booked shop runs tight and a late arrival pushes everyone behind you. With a new barber, bring a photograph. Fade is a broad word, and it means very different things to different hands.
In the West Cambie neighbourhood of Richmond.
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