I sport a longer version of my old military high an tight cut. I tried growing it out, but it just bugged the crap out of me and was entirely too hot. I color every month too.
I go to the barber shop weekly. My barber called me on sunday a couple of weeks ago because he had drilled a hole into a natural gas line in his shop. I repaired it the next day in about 4 hours and only charged him $200 bucks for the work. For some reason he said that he didn't really have the money so he would give me free haircuts for a year.
Well, that kind of pissed me off, so I go weekly and get my beard shaped and trimmed, hair cut and a shave. Sooner or later he will realise just paying me would have been the best option. $18 x 48 weeks= $864.oo