Going to the hairdressers can be a stressful experience.
The small talk can get tedious and your hair never quite looks the way you imaged it would when you walked in.
But you’d have a lot more to worry about if you were to get your hair cut by Russian barber Daniil Istomin.
Russian hairdresser Daniil Istomin operates out of in Novosibirsk in Siberia. In the video the controversial hairstylist has two women get on their knees, facing him, with their heads resting on wooden boxes
In the video the controversial hairstylist has two women get on their knees and rest their heads on wooden boxes on either side of him.
Using two axes he hacks at one lady’s hair, before pivoting at chopping at the other – in what looks like more of a dance routine than a haircut.
He then has his brave customers sit upright on the boxes with their heads tilted back.
Using two axes he hacks at one lady’s hair, before pivoting at chopping at the other. It looks more like a dance routine than a haircut
He then has his brave customers sit upright on the boxes with their heads tilted back. One at a time he straightens the hair with one hand and chops at it with the axe in the other hand
The unorthodox barber has been compared to the demon barber of Fleet Street due to his dexterity with a hatchet
The unorthodox barber has been compared to the demon barber of Fleet Street due to his dexterity with a hatchet.
He claims he was just trying to come up with something interesting with his profession when he thought of the unusual method.
Istomin said: ‘It all started with a banal “Let’s try being blindfolded”, then “Try with two hands”.
The mad barber claims he was just trying to come up with something interesting with his profession when he thought of the unusual method. Istomin said is started with him cutting hair blind-folded and eventually escalated to using axes
Istomin has become so used to working with a hatchet he claims it is actually easier to give someone a haircut using the unusual tool rather then classic scissors
‘Eventually it came to the axe.’
Istomin has become so used to working with a hatchet he claims it is actually easier to give someone a haircut using the unusual tool rather then classic scissors.
Explaining his process, he said: ‘I just took some basics of geometry, combined it with my profession and shifted the angles into slightly different variations.’