Something I Always Forget!

[scruffy1]

That last week before I set out I'm always busy dealing with last minute catastrophes, can't find my passport, two pairs of my favorite hiking socks reveal a hole where my bunions rub, placating family members, you know, nothing unusual. I always forget to get a haircut. I return 5-6 weeks later looking like the Wild Man of Borneo - hair sticking out and beard all over the place. This time around and I will probably forget too. Even a tiny village will have at least two peluquerías which, like synagogues, one, where women go to and the other - they wouldn't be seen dead in. Peluqueros are much harder to find, in big cities they can be discovered by looking through their windows -however! My second Camino and walking with a group of Australians, one bloke decided to have his hair cut in Burgos. He came out looking very nicely -however! He also was sporting a cloud of talcum powder and a family sized splash of cologne. Nobody would talk to him for three days. I wish to surprise everyone this time so to my question, peluquero I know, but how do you say "Take a little off the top" in Spanish also "sin talcum powder"? Sin perfume"? and "¡Don't touch the beard!"? Tonsorially yours, Scruff

 

[jsalt]

Hi, get a photograph taken of yourself (head and shoulders) just after you have been to your usual hairdresser, and take it with you. You can then produce it, to show how you would like to look now. Jill

 

[Bobcat77]

Very little Spanish, but did have successful visit to Barber in Spain last year. Starting in Mid march, I plan to have hair for first week or two. Then as we get into April and it gets warmer ask a barber for a 'número tres' He'll zip it with the machine somewhat longer than a marine, but it will be neat and cool and it will have grown back to 'normal' by Santiago and home.
Buen Camino.

 

[Pelegrin]

"Take a little off the top" could be "No me quite mucho de arriba".

"Sin perfume". Better "No me ponga colonia"

"Don´t touch the beard" "No me toque la barba"

 

[scruffy1]

"Take a little off the top" could be "No me quite mucho de arriba".

"Sin perfume". Better "No me ponga colonia"

"Don´t touch the beard" "No me toque la barba"

English Victorian slang for a bad smell was "pong" veeery interesting - thanks

 

[Arminius]

It's a bit of a laugh! Scruffy, a nice pieceof storytelling.

 

[Kanga]

Love it! I think everyone should get a haircut along the way. Mine have always been fabulous, and a great fun experience. Plus it's a very simple and satisfying way of putting some money into the local economy.

 

[Icacos]

That last week before I set out I'm always busy dealing with last minute catastrophes, can't find my passport, two pairs of my favorite hiking socks reveal a hole where my bunions rub, placating family members, you know, nothing unusual. I always forget to get a haircut. I return 5-6 weeks later looking like the Wild Man of Borneo - hair sticking out and beard all over the place. This time around and I will probably forget too. Even a tiny village will have at least two peluquerías which, like synagogues, one, where women go to and the other - they wouldn't be seen dead in. Peluqueros are much harder to find, in big cities they can be discovered by looking through their windows -however! My second Camino and walking with a group of Australians, one bloke decided to have his hair cut in Burgos. He came out looking very nicely -however! He also was sporting a cloud of talcum powder and a family sized splash of cologne. Nobody would talk to him for three days. I wish to surprise everyone this time so to my question, peluquero I know, but how do you say "Take a little off the top" in Spanish also "sin talcum powder"? Sin perfume"? and "¡Don't touch the beard!"? Tonsorially yours, Scruff

@scruffy1, your post reminded me of this thread, which I thought was quite amusing.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/beard.33710/

 

[drvnsmiln]

Too bad you are not taking the VdLP. There is this place in Seville…….