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The fade you asked for.

Agreed out loud before the clippers come on, then written down so the second visit matches the first.

[4.9] on Google · [312] reviews · [Mid-City], Los Angeles

Open [Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 7pm]. Call and we'll name the next open chair.

Barber clippers

Cuts by Lopez is a fade and taper shop in [Mid-City]. Skin, low, mid, high, burst, taper. Blended by eye with the clipper and finished with a razor at the line. Bring us a grow-out from somewhere else and we will take the shelf out of it before we start.

You booked 2pm. You sat down at 2:40.

Then the cut is rushed, because the chair is running behind and so is everyone after you. We hold fifteen minutes between appointments and we do not double-book a barber. Turn up at your time, sit down at your time.

He nodded at the photo.

Then cut something else, because nobody said out loud what the picture actually meant. Here it gets settled first: how high the fade starts, where the line sits, which guard does the work, how much comes off the top. A minute of talking, before anything is switched on.

One great cut. Then a worse one.

The visit that made you a regular, followed by the one that nearly lost you. After your first cut here, your guard numbers, your part, your neck line and how you wear the top go on file. Say "same as last time" and it means something.

Fades are the whole job here.

Not a haircut list with a fade bolted on the end. Every barber in this shop cuts fades all day, which is the only way anybody gets good at them. Beards and hot towel work sit alongside, not instead.

Barber holding scissors and a comb
Barber chair
Barber pole
A shaggy-haired man waiting in the barber chair
A barber's trolley of tools and towels
A shaggy-haired man overdue for a haircut
The barber cutting the shaggy-haired man's hair
The barber holding up a mirror to show the new haircut
The barber shop mirror
The barber, thumbs up
The client with his new buzz cut, thumbs up

Your chair is
open.

Call and tell us the day. We will give you the next open chair and the name of the barber sitting in it. Send a photo on WhatsApp first if you have one, so the fade is agreed before you get here.

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Price and length published on every cut
Not what you agreed? Back inside 7 days and we fix it

Three numbers that decide whether you come back

Anyone can say they are good. These are the three the shop is held to, and the only ones worth putting on a website.

[4.9]

Out of five, across [312] reviews on Google. Read a few before you call. Most people will not book a shop under four stars, and they are right not to.

15 min

Held between every appointment. It is the reason a chair running late does not roll onto your slot, and the reason nobody rushes the last ten minutes of your cut.

7 days

If the fade is not what you agreed in the chair, come back inside a week and we put it right at no charge. You should not pay twice to fix a barber’s work, ours included.

The quiet times, so you are not sat waiting

Half of all complaints about barbershops are about waiting. Saturday runs about three times as busy as Monday here, and Friday and Saturday together take most of the week. If your week bends, these are the hours you walk straight in.

Walk straight in

  • [Tuesday and Wednesday, 9am to noon]
  • [Thursday before 2pm]

Call ahead

  • [Friday after 3pm]
  • [All day Saturday]
  • [Weekday evenings after 5pm]

Walk-ins are always welcome. Call first and we will tell you what the wait actually looks like, rather than letting you find out in the chair.

The cuts people come here for

  • Down to the skin
    Razor finish

    Taken to nothing at the bottom and blended up clean, with no shelf and no line where the guards changed.

    Skin fade

    Skin fade, and what it costs
  • Low taper
    Grows out clean

    Short at the neck and the sideburn, longer as it climbs. The one that still looks deliberate three weeks later.

    Taper fade

    Taper fade, and what it costs
  • Straight razor
    Cheek and neck line

    Shaped to your jaw rather than to a template, edged with a straight razor, finished hot.

    Beard and hot towel

    Beard and hot towel, and what it costs
  • Under 12
    No rush

    A first haircut, a school fade, or a kid still deciding whether he trusts the clippers.

    Kids cuts

    Kids cuts, and what it costs
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