Cultural Shocks After 'Foreign' Haircuts

Eliciting Double Takes After Visiting the Salon

Since my 12-year-old son Alex had such success with his first Turkish haircut (above), a few days later I impulsively decided to get my haircut at a salon near Ipeksarai Mall in Kayseri, the city of nearly a million in central Anatolia where we lived and worked for two years. This wasn’t like the 15-minute haircuts in the states. The barber meticulousl…