Leticia Styling Barber Shop

Great experience. No wait and the stylist was delicate with her tools. Have to admit this was one of the best cuts I’ve had in a long time. Recommended!

Moved to Manassas for a few months for work. Thought Leticia’s was a black barber shop but it’s all hispanics. Flor is tight, gave me a fresh fade every week while I was there. Line up and hard part were perfect every time. Best barber I’ve ever had.

It appears this shop cuts all types of heads (men, women, children) and does highlights/​coloring, and many salon-​type things that women (and some men) desire. I am a man who likes to get his hair cut in a run-​of-​the-​mill kind of place, by a dude named Butch, or Mack, or Bud. I don’t want to smoke a cigar while I get my hair cut; I don’t want a damn neck rub (save that for the spa or chiropractor); and I certainly don’t want a pedicure while I get my hair cut. There’s nothing wrong with these things necessarily, but I just want to get my hair cut, and cut quickly. Simple.
It was fairly late for most barber shops (about 7pm) on the weekend, and there were literally no other barber shops open in a 15 miles radius, aside from an upscale «man cave» salon in old town Manassas; which again, is not my cup of tea. So, bonus points for being the only barber shop that is open past 6pm on the weekend. Anyway, they were the only game in town for me tonight, so I said a prayer and took my chances based on the singular 5 star Unilocal review, posted more than 4 years ago…
I preface my review with all of that being said because this place scared me a little after I sat down in the chair. I instantly started to feel regret. Why did I come here? I could have just waited until tomorrow morning! I have been to probably 10 different barber shops in the ~15 years I’ve lived in NOVA, so I felt like I knew what to expect going in. It would be a little dirty, maybe the chairs would be old and the arm rests would be a little torn, or maybe the walls would have old wallpaper or need painting, etc. I knew the barber would probably not speak great english (though usually most are able to communicate adequately to do the job well), and I knew it would probably cost me around $ 15 (truthfully, I was hoping for a little less since it is Manassas, where things tend to run a little less than other parts of NOVA). Yes, I knew the type of experience I was probably going to have. I am used to this experience; it is not foreign to me.
When I walked in, I was seated immediately. The barber asked me (I think) how I wanted my hair cut. I told him my specifics and he nodded. He seemed to understand. However, he would periodically ask me questions during the haircut that made me wonder if he really understood or not. I feared that I had miscommunicated a couple of times and would likely get a really strange cut. But he did well and we somehow figured out a way to communicate just enough to get through the haircut. At one point he put the comb in my hand and gesture to me to show him where I wanted my hair to part. It was actually a fairly effective way to understand, as opposed to us trying to communicate verbally (which we had not done too well at for most of the haircut). Communication aside, I think what startled me the most was the ramshackle setup for powering the clippers and the lack of organization for the barber’s tools and haircutting station. Things seemed to be thrown haphazardly into a drawer; he was often fishing around in the drawer looking for things. The clippers were plugged into a power strip, which was in a different drawer, along with what appeared to be roughly 20 other cords/​plugs, give or take a few. There was no sterilization of combs, no cleaning of clipper attachments, etc.
The other thing that struck me as odd, was there was no «customer acceptance» for the haircut, as I am accustomed to have after nearly all haircuts. The barber will always take a mirror and show you the back of your head and allow you a minute to look over your haircut to be sure you agree it was done well. This barber did not do that. Yet still, I wasn’t displeased. The cut I received appeared good to me (for what I could see, anyway).
So all in all, it was not the best experience I’ve ever had getting my hair cut, and there were definitely moments where I thought I was going to regret coming here, but I’m moderately satisfied with the cut that I got. If the place was a little cleaner and the barber/​stylist could communicate a little better with me, it probably would have been a 4 star experience. But you know what, for 7pm on a Saturday, it’s probably the best cut I could have asked for.
Thanks Leticia Barber Shop for cutting my hair and taking my money. No regrets… yet. I still haven’t seen the back of my head yet, though. If my feelings change, I’ll update this review.
ps– They do take various forms of credit for payment, in case anyone was wondering. They also have some kind of money order service they provide, but I didn’t dare try asking what that was all about…