Haircut Harry’s real charm, though, comes across through the raw, unedited feel of the videos. The barber swivels the chair toward the mirror and Harry is transformed, before our eyes, into a new man. The pay-off comes in the big reveal at the end. Harry climbs into the seat, exchanges a few words with the barber and settles in for the cut. They follow the same familiar narrative arc that anyone who’s ever sat in a barbershop or salon chair will immediately recognise. The videos themselves run anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes and focus on one haircut at a time. ‘I didn’t have much money, so I travelled as cheaply as possible.’ ‘For years, I’d been traveling as much as I could’, he says. The origins of ‘Haircut Harry’ go back to the 1990s (though the official YouTube channel didn’t formally launch until 2012) and trips that Harry took to Africa and Southeast Asia. You might also like: 8 fantastic travel podcasts to whisk you away Lonely Planet caught up with the creators recently to talk about what inspired the channel and what they’ve learned along the way. ‘Harry’ – not his real name, the couple prefer to remain anonymous – is the man with the hair, while his partner of many years is the woman behind the camera. That’s the premise behind the rapidly growing YouTube channel ‘Haircut Harry’, the creation of a British/American couple who live in the United States and travel the world in search of an authentic cut.
There’s nothing more universal – and yet more local – than getting a haircut.
‘Harry’ gets the local treatment at OKID barbershop in Busan, South Korea © Haircut Harry
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