 I have a beer efficiently. Spray some of the... Asian? I don't know. The hair illusion? Don Juan Grocer, my favorite bodega in New York. That's my spot. And it kind of helps that there's a Dominican bodega, like two doors down. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I need a haircut. But first, I got to get these drinks from the bodega. Alright you guys, we just wrapped up here. I got some Arizona fruit stacks. I got this new sparkling iced starburst flavor. I got this house. Alright, thanks Papi. So what happens if you're feeling a little fuzzy with your hair in New York City? And you don't want to go to one of those new fangled barbershops that cost $100 a cut. I'm sure those are great. But what if you only have like $30? Well you got to go to a Dominican barber. And what do you recommend? Skin fade. Low skin fade. Low skin fade to a 2. Can you shape his beard or mustache a little bit? Cause look at this, look at this guy. Look at his mustache. I'm feeling fuzzy, I just need to get it all, you know. Texturize it. No, no, no, shape it, shape it all. Make his face look stronger than it would be. Yeah, and then I'll give you a skinny mustache. Okay. Hell yeah, skinny mustache. Go get the skinny mustache. Not the thick mustache, the skinny mustache. You're Asian, right? You're mainly going to know barbers that are cutting with scissors and keeping the hair tight. It's not a lot. Not going as low as skin or showing different type of hair. For example in Chinatown, they don't skin it. No. Around here, for example, where the lines are here, usually like the Asian people we get, they come here for the fade. Right, because they cannot find it in the whole community. Yeah, they can't find it around here. They usually like scissors, scissors cuts, and usually like all has usually Asians go to those type of haircuts. You probably got like a... Yo, what fade are you giving him? I'm giving him a mid-drop fade. I'm going to drop the fade down so that I'll keep the hair dark and up here. And you're talking about drop the back right here. Yeah, I'm going to drop the back. So it's not straight and then going up. You know what I'm saying? Okay, so what are you doing right now? Right now I'm going in with the one and a half. One of one more guard. I call this like the detail part. I call it the zero half and the one and a half. I call it the detail phase, because this is mainly where you're going to get the detail for the darkness of the head. For me, if I was teaching someone else, I'd prefer people to work from the bottom up because there's less risk of mistake. And if you do a mistake, you can improvise and go a little high. But if you start up from up top and it's a little harder to correct it because the hair up top is dark. You know what I'm saying? You know what's really interesting is I heard that I feel like a lot of Dominicans, they came to America at the same time that Asians did in the 1960s, the 1970s, sort of like typical parents are immigrants and then we get born here. Yeah, yeah. I feel like we had it the same like... Same timeline. Yeah, and I feel like we all have that strictness. Would you say that barbershops are kind of like a cultural hub in the Dominican community? You can go see people from the community, you can ask for advice, not just haircuts and stuff. I feel like, yeah, because Dominicans are known for their loudness and their personality that they're always cheerful, you know what I'm saying? Extraverts, right? Exactly, so you're always going to find something here if you come to a Dominican barbershop, you're always going to find that loudness, someone's watching a game on the TV, someone's getting a haircut, they're being loud, arguing with their barber, doing this, doing... People are on TikTok, always. Exactly, so, and there's always music, there's always this, you can see the culture everywhere in here, so that's probably why it's always pulling people to us, you know what I'm saying? Right, right, right. You get a little slice of the DR inside of these shops. Yeah, exactly, and we always try to keep it that way, you know what I'm saying? I'm over here hanging my flag right there. Right. It's like, we're always, we're proud from where we are. And it kind of helps that there's a Dominican bodega like two doors down. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I'm just parting the hair, separating the longer hair that he has on top with the hair on the side. I'm just going to thin this hair, I prefer to thin it out. Okay. Just so that I can give it more texture and keep the darkness and the lightness away from the fade. You got to understand, so with hair, it's the way that they grow out of your head, right? So, when they grow, Asian hair is really, sometimes they're thick, but they mainly grow out. They go straight out of the head, and you guys don't have a lot of hair. Like, you guys don't have a lot of, how do I say this? Density, the density. You know what I'm saying? It's not as dense, but the hair is thicker, right? Exactly, right? So, but when you go, for example, with curly hair or coarser hair, when they come out, they start curling up, and then that also, but you guys also have, which is the oily, nice, healthy hair. Coarser hair, they lack the oil and they're keeping the hair moisturized. I'm going to fade his sideburns. He's going to blend in with the fade after I pass the blade here. I'm going to skin all of this out, and then make it nice and light so that it flows in with the beard. You have to have a beard to flow in with the rest of your hair. He has a beard, guys. I have a beard, officially. What is this? What are you eating? Like ice cream. Ice cream? Gava ice? Mamita. Mamita, they call it mamita, but it's like guava. Is it from D.R.? From the Dominican Republic. Don Juan Grocer, my favorite bodega in New York. That's my... Most of us have baby hairs that grow around the eyelids right here. And they give like a little shadow to the face. But I've learned to sometimes that if you take it off, your face looks a little clear. And your baggy, dark eyes don't look as baggy. Hey guys, that's the detail work right there. You wouldn't know that if you don't consistently cut hair. Right, right. Hey, get rid of the peach fuzz. Yo, David, you look like a designated batter right here. Like I told you guys earlier, right? There's a position, like a light baby hair shadow that grows on the face, but people can't see it. Women, like, they take it off because of their makeup, right? But us, we don't really learn... Yeah, for guys, we wouldn't even believe that it would make a difference. Exactly, but if you see it with shadow and shadow around here because of the little baby hairs... You can see it on the face here, like it's way lighter than what he looked like. So when you shave this, we're gonna see that it looks almost like clear. Yeah, you will see like his skin will clear up. I got a beard! He got one! You're here at Moran Barbershop, Dominican Barbershop. What are you about to get? Fresh fade. Five on the top, skin fade, you know what I'm saying? Right. You gotta look like you though. Yeah. I actually did have that back then, but I was just too tired of it though. Right, right. You wanna lower maintenance here. Absolutely, bro. Absolutely. Alright, well good luck. I know you're gonna look fresh. I get a plate with two meats. Can I do pollo guisado? Pollo guisado. And then can I do the ribs? My beard has never looked stronger before. Listen, guys, we are just right outside Chinatown on the border actually between the LES in Chinatown. You can get a haircut for 30 at the Dominican Barbershop. You can go get a bunch of Dominican food. I've got pollo guisado. I've got pork ribs. I've got rotisserie. And this was 20, all for $50 combined. But really, the haircut was like 30, 35. I would go with 35. Listen, guys, prices are going up everywhere. But I am telling you, the Dominican Barbershops, in terms of value, they're probably the best in the city, dollar per dollar.