Pretty thick blade coming at me
I love getting haircuts when I go to other countries. Now I'm in Kurdistan, Iraq. I'm in a
city called Erbil, it's the biggest city here, and you actually have barber shops everywhere
you look. You also have people with really cool haircuts. Everywhere I look I see that same style
of hair. Unfortunately my hair is not long enough to really get the full effect
but it's still pretty long. Max barber? Let's go see if I can just walk in and get a haircut.
Hello could I get a haircut?
Cool I'm doing my YouTube. No problem. Okay. You are welcome
Thank you, thank you bro thank you. The looks you get when you walk into a place holding a selfie
stick. it's hilarious.
what's your name? Muhammad. Nice to meet you. Muhammad number one, Uptin.
So I would really like the Kurdish haircut you know the like
yeah like the Kurdish style.
so how long have you lived in Erbil? Oh that's it you left because of the crisis
Skills
It's a pretty thick blade coming at me. Okay. The power just went out which I guess happens here
let's see if a generator is going to turn off that's the nice thing about
getting your hair cut during the day oh the power's back on look at that line
framing the forehead right there
oh
There was no warning.He just disappears and what he's doing is he's bringing hot wax
to torture me. Here he comes.
Now it's really hot it's a lot of wax my friend isn't it a bit too much wax. Already..
No please no no no no no no. He has an evil laugh too no oh that one was way worse. What is theis? steam?
For the face . I've never been to a place before
that blows steam in your face right after they do your shave
Look how red my nose is now
Wait don't I need gel and hairspray first and then
Oh actually bye
Only in Kurdistan Iraq. I'm just chilling here, getting my face steamed. Do you like coffee
Do you have tea? Do you like coffee? Tea?
Chai? Okay thank you. I thought I've seen it all, getting haircuts but this is a first.
He's checking up on me, it's been like 10 minutes. He's speaking arabic, I'm
speaking english we don't understand each other but somehow it's happening.
Okay and we're done with the put a steamer on my face I'mm not really sure what's next
but hopefully I've been through all the painful parts and I hope it's almost done.
Oh what is this
What was that?
Oh my god
All right it feels kind of like a massage a facial a face massage.
Now he's adding to cucumber face scrub.
Wow another product? What's this? Dead sea lightning mud mask.
So he just walked away and now is a good opportunity to talk about how I think
when I get haircuts in this part of the world one thing I notice is how much pride they take
in their work. They're just so passionate about the work they do and it's really quite inspiring
it's rare I see that in a lot of countries you know most people are kind of they see it as a job
they're thinking about what's for lunch how much money they're gonna make from this haircut
but here it's just like they really light up. While I sit and wait he just brought some
tea and honey and it is piping hot. We wait. I'm afraid. I don't ask any questions
I have to leave in about 10 15 minutes.
Yeah ten ten minutes I must go. Okay I finished. Oay thank you habibi thank you.
Let's finish this. Come on Come on finish come on come on
Go
You don't recognize me?
I'm getting there.
Thank you bro. So everyone says when you travel you have to experience the local food
but I think you should take it a step further!! Get the local haircut too
Okay I'm ready. I have a big offer for you full haircut and facial all for 40 dollars.
Okay so for for the haircut and the facial forty dollars, it took about an
Hour and a half so a good amount of time. All right so forty dollars.
I honestly thought that after getting a haircut in turkey I had seen it all but I was so wrong, that
experience was crazy there were so many tools that i never knew existed. Let me know in the comments
what did you think. Would you sit for an hour and a half for something like this? And do you think it
was worth 40 dollars? While you're at it guys check out more of my videos here in iraq and from around
the world. Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and find me on tik tok and instagram @UPTIN.