---
title: "This Site Lets a Barber Tell You How to Cut Your Hair via Webcam"
description: "This brand new website pairs you \"with a world-class barber\" to \"get your hair through these hard times\" while quarantined."
date: "2020-04-07"
modified: "2021-02-12"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/site-barber-how-to-cut-hair"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "coronavirus"
  - "covid-19"
  - "hair"
  - "the digest"
---

# This Site Lets a Barber Tell You How to Cut Your Hair via Webcam

![This brand new website pairs you "with a world-class barber" to "get your hair through these hard times" while quarantined.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/site-barber-how-to-cut-hair.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Amazon/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Haircut Needed

In the age of coronavirus, we're left to our own devices when it comes to styling, grooming, or cutting hair.

The leaves an opening for entrepreneurs, who've created a site that pairs you "with a world-class barber" to "get your hair through these hard times," as the descriptively-named website [YouProbablyNeedaHaircut.com](<https://www.youprobablyneedahaircut.com/>) puts it.

"You know, pajama bottoms are fine and everything, but I need my face to be presentable," explains TV personality, chef, and business owner Josh Elkin in an explainer video. "I got livestreams, video chats, cooking videos to make. That's where YourProbablyNeedaHaircut.com comes in."

https://youtu.be/Qhz8LaFk-N8

## Snip Cut

Barbers — and their clientele — around the world have been advised to stay at home during the coronavirus outbreak. That means businesses are empty, with those working in the service industry relying on emergency government grants and unemployment insurance.

The new website therefore tries to allow some of these people to recoup their losses. A "quick cut" of 20 minutes will cost you $18 — definitely less than your average barber visit. A "not-so-quick cut" at 45 minutes costs $30.

## BYOScissors

And the results are looking pretty good already.

"You saved my life," reads a testimony by a woman from West Hollywood. "My boyfriend looked hideous."

To make most of the service, you'll first have to "find or buy your best pair of haircutting scissors or razor" before booking an appointment.

**READ MORE:** [You Probably Need a Haircut](<https://www.youprobablyneedahaircut.com/>)

**More on the pandemic:** *[A Baseball Team Is Filling Its Stadium With 500 Robot Spectators](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/baseball-team-robot-spectators>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/vtanger.bsky.social>)