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You've got kind of a really unusual kind of setup here.
Yeah, my trucks parked in the barbershop.
What year is it?
Uh, it's a 1960 F-100.
I've had it for about 10 years.
It wasn't your dads?
It wasn't my dad's no, but my dad went with me when I bought it.
We bought it out in like the high desert.
When people come in, it's like I mean, it's the truck and you get this thing incredible view here of your entire shop.
The whole shop and all the stuff on the walls.
What is their reaction and what are you hoping? What are you hoping they get or feel from being in here, because it's a very unique kind of work space.
You know like the shop is a is a real true reflection of me first I think.
But then Justin that works here and Richie works on the other side of the wall,
like they both resonate with the shop too, you know skateboarding, surfing, car culture you know whatever,
Drinking or liquor stuff you know, just kind of everything that goes with those cultures.
But anybody can enjoy any of those things.
So you have dudes that work in finance. You know here in the area there's big finance,
and you can come in a suit and a tie and feel super comfortable.
Hot during the summer. It's warm in here.
But you know, you might have skateboarded as a little kid, or you might still surf, or you might have an old car you take out on the weekends.
And so it bridges all of those gaps of individuals,
like you know lives, everybody has a story and,
this is my story, and I like to have people in the shop that kind of you know meld with that well.
Do you get people coming in and kind of uh, you know
thinking that they're going to get the car, you know get an oil change or something at the same time?
We've definitely had people open the back door,
and then look in and be like 'Oh I'm sorry!'
I'm like "are you here for a haircut or?"
"Yeah, yeah but this is like an automotive shop?"
I'm like, "No, it's just the trucks parked in here you know."
Adds to the ambiance and takes up space.
And the walls are covered with stuff. I see you have a whole bunch of surfboards over there.
Yeah I've been surfing since I was a little kid.
And living in the area in Orange County there's tons of surfing in the area.
So we have a lot of customers that are surfing.
Costa Mesa was like the hub of a lot of action sports brands in like surf skate
and still is...
So it's just a big part of my life and lifestyle is going to the beach
and enjoying the ocean.
How did you come up with the name for the shop?
So eagle is for America. I had a buddy with me first his name's Sean.
We were going to do like everything's for sale type concept where all the furniture and everything was basically for sale.
You could buy it if you wanted and that was going to be his thing, and I was going to cut hair.
It was going to like fill this warehouse out and give it some texture and some depth.
And I would cut hair and that, you know it was a customer base, but Sean ended up having kids.
And it just never like came to fruition.
So the Eagle side just kind of stayed, and then the Pig side
is from surfboards originally. Like surfing a lot of like surf you know that style surfboard.
You know dudes or pigs, which is always just kind of the joke you know you're getting cleaned up.
You know, lipstick on a pig that whole kind of joking part of it.
Whether or not you like Ronald Reagan he had a quote, "I like it when they call me a pig it stands for pride integrity and guts."
A lot of me, like doing this barbershop, at the time in my life and when I did it.
It hinged on that.
Like I had to have a lot more pride in myself,
You know to do it in the first place. Because you know when your family and your friends their expectation is that you're going to be one thing.
And they set their kind of life standard for you in a certain direction and then you totally, I mean going from lawyer to barber is a pretty dynamic shift.
Why did you decide to become a barber?
The dude that I had got my hair cut by, he had been in like film and stage set up, got hurt and needed a job.
And he became a barber because of that, but he was a really good conversationalist.
He could talk to anybody, he had great stories, he'd been all sorts of different places.
So when I got really frustrated with the law school thing and wanting to pursue that career,
He was like you should go to barber school. Like I can do it you can do it,
and you'll be better at it than me.
Whether or not that you want it forever, you'll at least have a skill you can take somewhere with you and you can figure your life out.
And there was some old like salty attorney in the barber shop at the time.
And he was like, "Yeah, you don't want to be me man. Like I'm fat and I'm old and I have like health problems. And I don't enjoy my life at all."
So I signed up for barber school a couple weeks later.
Why did you decide to do a barbershop here?
I was poor. I didn't have any money, and I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.
And this really has just always been that, like I always have gotten to do what I want to do.
It's freedom, is really like why I ended up here. It's a free being on this side of town there's a lot
of that creativity on this side of town.
For as long as we can hold on this will still kind of be
weird cool different you know, on it's little island over here.
So this has to be probably one of the most interesting repurposes of a library bookcase I've seen!
Yeah, I like it because they close they like very rarely ever closed.
And it is chock-a-block full of Uppercut!
Full of Uppercut.
Does Uppercut, do you think it would do something to my hair here?
Yeah.
I mean, this is this is my uh, just got out of bed look.
I like it it's wonderful, um but it could use a dollop!
Traditional pomades have the the great form and function of being easy to use,
for basically everyone, from little kids to old men with like the few duck feathers they might have left.
It just gives you good hold, right, and the washability is great.
You get lots of scents across the whole thing.
With product in general,
Depending on how your hair is, I can tell you definitely have problematic cowlicks at times.
If this gets too short in the back, this starts to stick up probably like a cockatoo.
And so you know, sometimes damp hair, wet you know depending on what you're working with,
and then applying product to it helps you get the best result.
So like my thing with with anybody, like I've never, I haven't cut your hair before, but I'm gonna try a product on it.
I'm gonna comb through, and I'm gonna look at what I'm working with.
I'm gonna see what cut you have in it and then go from there.
And I'm going to give you like a real clean clean look.
So you have some cool cowlicks right, and your hair likes to essentially part like that,
but your actual part is under here somewhere else you know where your part line is at.
Unless like you know you don't want that. If you don't want to have ...
Do you comb your hair like that ever?
The question is do I comb my hair? [Laughter]
That's too much. There's no time for such things!
I tend to like pull it back and let it go okay how it wants to go.
Totally.
For somebody like you, you might use this product,
you know, the weekend when you're going out. Or you're going out to dinner and drinks or something.
Or you want it your hair to stay.
A business guy is going to use this every single day. He might have it in his desk at work as well
to give a little tidy up before he goes out to a business meeting or something.
The same with the kid that's going to school.
But this product's pretty cool.
It's got this cool like shimmery, like gold to it.
It's just different. I've been staring at the same deluxe pomade for going on 10 years.
So I'm going to start with this much in your hair right.
And that's not a lot really.
It's not really a lot no and it's probably not enough for your hair, but I want to see what it does you know.
We're going to do it with your hair dry.
Then what I like to do is you put it in, you see what the hair does,
and then you add some moisture in the appropriate places right.
It helps to see what we're working with first.
And give it a go from there.
Do you own a comb?
[Laughter]
Yeah, I do actually.
You're like I have plenty! I get them everywhere I go.
I don't think, I don't think I've ever asked that before! [Laughter]
I have uh. Yeah, Uppercut sells combs, I gotta get the product up-sell in the barbershop.
So you have this multi-colored hair,
so you got a lot of different textures going on right.
And sometimes products, they don't necessarily like that right.
A portion of your hair, unfortunately your younger hair,
might retain more moisture than you're getting older hair, which gets coarser and a little bit harder to work with.
And so sometimes products fight against what we want to do with them,
but you can tell, and you know this is all for the science of our day.
You know putting it in dry hair, it kind of fights back a little bit because it is a stronghold product and it will give you some structure.
If you were gonna do you know rockabilly pompadour I'd put in three times what I just put in your hair.
You can still have some movement to this,
and I am going to add some moisture to your hair to get it to do what I want to do with the product.
Because your hair is so dry, or
it doesn't retain moisture the same way, so this is Uppercuts Salt Spray.
You can do water too.
Is it designed to use with the pomade or is it?
I like to use it. It's kind of like a topper.
Not necessarily though it can be used on its own.
So the same for someone like you, if you just like to have a little texture in your hair. It's great.
What I've come to find is that this salt spray helps to comb coarser hair a lot better.
It helps get the comb through you know easier instead of fighting it.
And you can kind of feel that I think, as I comb your hair right now I'm not having to like pull on your head.
And that's the difference between moisture or no moisture in your hair.
So we put some of that on the top. You kind of work it in.
And then kind of finish off combing your hair into place.
So yeah, this is the Deluxe Pomade.
Right so you can feel the weight. It gives your hair a lot of structure easily without a ton of product.
And then putting that salt spray over the top, it gives you a little bit of better combability with the dryness.
Now if you put the the deluxe pomade in your hair damp,
it gives it a different feel overall. The combability would be real easy.
Your bang would fall away right away. Though you'd have that extra weight from the moisture,
and it takes a little longer for the product to dry and get into its hold.
But for somebody like you who has a lot and coarser hair,
that moisture really does help in the end product a lot.
Because you can always just come back with a little bit more moisture,
give it a comb, and you're back to looking you know squared away.
But yeah this is, I mean realistically, the way a medium amount of Deluxe Pomade works in someone's hair.
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A new hairstyle in five seconds flat there and thank you very much Dane!
Hey thanks for coming in man it's great to have you.
Good to talk and good to share.
You could be here for hours. Hours and hours, we could talk about everything, so if you ever want to come back - come on back!
Have fun! Good to see you! You don't mind if I take your car?
Go for it. It's all yours!
Don't bring it back though, I gotta claim the insurance on it! [Laughter]