15 Gender-Neutral Barbers and Hairdressers In The UK and Ireland

Looking for the right hairdresser can be a hassle at the best of times, but when it comes to pricing why should your gender determine the price of a haircut? Here's a quick list of queer-owned and queer-friendly barbers and salons in the UK and Ireland that offer gender-neutral pricing:

Barbarette

London, England

"We are a small, self-financed, fully accessible hub offering gender-neutral cuts at affordable prices. As one of the first established gender-neutral hair salons in the UK, we don't believe in paying extra for your gender, so our price list is solely in line with the style and length you're after. We also proudly cater for all hair types and textures."

www.barberette.co.uk

Location:

Unit 1, Warwick Works

Lower Clapton

London

E5 8QJ

Open Barbers

London, England

"Open Barbers is a hairdressing service welcoming people of all/no genders and sexualities, with any hair length and type. As a not-for-profit Social Enterprise, our prices are on a sliding scale, where you pay what you can afford starting at £2.

Everyone is welcome! We specialise in friendly, attentive and personalised services, and we have lots of experience cutting hair free from gender stereotypes."

www.openbarbers.com

Location:

4 Clunbury Street

London

N1 6TT

Lightning Like Scissors

Brighton, England

"Lightning Like Scissors is Brighton’s first non-binary, gender-neutral barber shop and hair colour specialist, offering a friendly and safe space for the LGBTQIA+ and Neurodiverse community to express themselves freely, without judgement.

This forward-thinking, award-winning studio believes that haircuts have no gender – so it’s time to break the binary and UNF*#K THE CISTEM!"

www.lightninglikescissors.co.uk

Location:

48 Norfolk Square,

Brighton

BN1 2PA

Shotgun Barbers

Bristol, England

"At Shotgun we charge by the length of your hair, not gender. You pick your length-cut and our specialists will take care of you. We have assembled only the best hairdressers & barbers with a passion for creative cutting and creative colour, from Balayage to beards fades to fringes, we got ya!"

www.shotgunbarbers.co.uk

Location:

20 Bond Street

Bristol

BS1 3L

WoW Hair and Beauty Bar

Cardiff, Wales

"Welcome to WoW – an LGBTQ+ inclusive salon with gender-neutral pricing. We charge for the service you receive, not for who you are or how you identify! We are all unique in our own special way: none of us should feel the need to fit into other boxes. At WoW, staff and clients alike come together in one place to be accepted for who we are. After all, we are one of the few UK’s fully LGBTQ+ inclusive and gender-neutral salons."

www.wowhairandbeautybar.co.uk

Location:

25 Pen y Lan Road

Roath

Cardiff

CF24 3PG

Joshuaa Shaun Hair Salon

Birmingham, England

"We offer our clients something out of the ordinary. Our mission has always been to provide a safe space regardless of gender, sexuality, race or religion; becoming the first salon in the city to offer a price list purely based on services, rather than gender."

www.joshuaashaunhair.co.uk

Location:

1471 Pershore Rd

Stirchley

Birmingham

B30 2JL

Mr Snipsnipp

Sheffield, England

"Mr Snipsnipp is Sheffield’s first actively queer-friendly and gender-inclusive barbershop!

Found in Sheffield’s favourite hidden gem, Hagglers Corner, we are a safe space for people of any and every identity to get the haircut they want."

mrsnipsnipp.booksy.com

Location:

Hagglers Corner

Queens Road

Sheffield

S2 4DU

Curtis and York

Nottingham, England

"Studs, Hooligans, Queens, Dykes, Reprobates & Ageing Degenerates Most Welcome. LGBTQ+ Trans friendly/safe space. Whilst we do work with clippers on short hair, we are keen on longer hair requiring scissor cutting.

Scissor Cut/Longer Hair: £19.75

Clipper & Scissor Cut/Short Back & Sides: £16.75

Crew Cut/Buzz Cut: £9.75"

www.instagram.com/curtisandyork

Location:

25 Goose Gate

Nottingham

NG1 1FE

Tutti Frutti

London, England

"Tuttii Fruittii The Technicolour Hair Sculptors began with a vision of creating an empowering space in which any person of any gender sexuality, age class could walk in comfortably and feel they can ask for any look or style they dream of. Designing the shape and finding the perfect colour combinations that will compliment someone's face is a wonderful challenge.

We operate on a sliding scale pricing system at our Barbershop and Hair Salon, which means that we ask people to pay what they can afford in accordance with their means."

www.tuttiifruittiilondon.com

Location: 2C Douglas Way

Deptford

London

SE8 4AG,

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