Litvin gets a shave at Goodfellas (above), while his son Carson (below, left), gets a 'do of his own at the Chop Shop. Bottom right: Sports are the theme at Lady Jane's in Royal Oak.
corn machine plus a flat-panel TV at each
station, Wolfe thought of everything.
Stylist Katie Perkins used Redken's
Color Camo to blend away Litvin's grays.
"It takes 10 minutes to process and no
dryer is needed," she says of the product's
selling points, "and it will look like his
natural color." Because the color is semi-
permanent, it will last for approximately
30 shampoos. "It is very natural looking,"
Litvin says of his shiny, ill-one-color hair.
"This is a cool place, very modern and
bright." Color: $30.
The last destination was the most
traditional form of the barber shop. The
Barber Pole, on South Old Woodward
Avenue in Birmingham (248-644-9849),
has been in business for 58 years offering
little more than haircuts and shaves. Five
vintage chairs sit on a scuffed black-
and-white check floor. A ball game is
usually on, on a lone TV mounted high
on the wall. Two long benches line one
wall, where a number of customers await
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their turn. This bare bones, no-muss-no-
fuss shop is where Cyndi Gonzalez has
worked for the past eight years. And she's
ready to give Litvin his finishing touch
with an eyebrow trim.
"I just knock off the ones that hang
out, and just the tips," she says. "I'm not
shaping, just making the eyebrows stand
out less." Trims can be done with either
scissors or clippers, and Cyndi says that
by grooming the eyebrows, the face looks
"less mean."
"It does make me look well groomed,"
says Litvin, who has his eyebrows trimmed
at every haircut. "It's not as scraggly."
Eyebrow trim: free with haircut.
At the end of the day, Litvin was
happy with his final look — not a dra-
matic before-and-after snapshot — but
instead an enhancement that only profes-
sional grooming can provide. "Each place
we visited was unique and suitable for any
guy," he says. "I'm glad to know there are
options out there."
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