, hairdresser at , López street, downtown, Mexico City. Photo Gustavo Graf.
Daniel Castillo, hairdresser at Scalper, La condesa, Mexico City. Photo Gustavo Graf.
(CITY LAB, MEXICO CITY) – «The lemon juice traditionally used by Mexicans as a fixative for thick, bristly black hair has long been replaced by mousse, then gel, and now, wax. And the profession itself, long dominated by women into the 1970s, is now mostly occupied by men. Miguel Angel Garcia, 65, with 35 years of experience cutting the hair of the cultural and bureaucratic elites of Coyoacan, says the shift happened around the same time as unisex hairstylists started to appear. Beards have also come into fashion, coming to the capital from Mexico’s more rural states around 2015 and igniting a boom of barbershops.»
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