The counter at Calle Begoña, shelves of bottles stacked behind two barber chairs

Gijón · Thursday to Saturday

Come to the counter, or write

One bench, three people, and a kettle. We answer messages on Thursdays, in the order they arrived, and we answer them ourselves.

Tell us what your hair does

Not what you want it to do — what it actually does by six in the evening. That is the part we can answer.

We write back on Thursdays. No list, no newsletter, nothing else ever sent to this address.

Leave this blank if you are buying for yourself — it only changes the prices we quote.

Length in centimetres, how coarse it is, and what you use now. Three lines is plenty.

The counter

Calle Begoña 18
33206 Gijón, Asturias

Thursday to Saturday, 10.00—18.30
Closed the first fortnight of August

+34 985 11 42 07
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The bench is the shop. You can watch a batch being cut while we put three pomades on the back of your hand, which is the only test that has ever told anyone anything.

Open the street map
The white subway-tiled wall behind the Gijón bench

Three shops that carry us

If you want to hold a tin before you buy it, these three keep the full range on the shelf.

The back shelf at Barbería Celaya in Oviedo, a white enamel caddy of bottles on a green boarded wall

Barbería Celaya

Calle Mon 9, 33003 Oviedo

All twelve products · cuts Tuesday to Saturday · +34 985 22 07 41

The back shelf at Salón Maderas in Avilés, jars and bottles lined up on dark wood

Salón Maderas

Calle La Cámara 44, 33402 Avilés

Pomade and oils only · no clay · +34 984 11 66 02

The washing basin at Casa Peluquería in Santander, chrome tap over white enamel

Casa Peluquería

Calle Hernán Cortés 31, 39003 Santander

All twelve products · refills on Fridays · +34 942 31 88 15

For shops

Trade, in four numbers

Minimum order

€180 at trade price, which is about twelve units mixed however you like. No minimum on a repeat inside ninety days.

Lead time

Seven to ten working days from the bench, longer if a batch is cutting. We write with a date before we take anything, not after.

Carriage

Free over €250 anywhere in Spain, €11 below that. Pallet rates for the European Union on request, quoted by weight not by guess.

Returns on trade

Sale or return on a first order, ninety days, sealed units only. After that it is ninety days on faults and nothing on overstock.

See retail prices

Wholesale, samples, refills, press

Can I open a wholesale account?

Yes, if you cut hair or sell to people who do. Send the form above with your shop name and we post a price list the same Thursday. Trade is forty per cent off retail at the minimum order and forty-five past €600 a year. We do not sell to resellers who only ship, because the whole point of the range is that someone puts it on a hand first.

Do you send samples?

To shops, yes: five 7 g pots, free, one set per shop. To individuals, no — a 7 g pot is two uses and tells you almost nothing, and we would rather you bought the 50 ml travel tin at €11 and sent it back inside thirty days if it is wrong.

Can I refill a tin?

At the counter, yes. Bring a clean dry tin on a Thursday or Friday and we fill it from the 200 ml jar at €13 for 100 ml, which saves you four euros and a tin. We cannot do it by post: filling by hand into a tin we have not seen is not something a cosmetics registration will cover.

Press, photography and shoots

Pick press on the form and we send product and the ingredient sheets by return. For shoots we lend the full range plus brushes against a deposit, and we will come and work the hair if it is within two hours of Gijón. We do not pay for coverage and we do not ask to see it first.

The empty chequerboard floor at the Gijón bench before Thursday opening

Thursday, from ten

Three pomades on the back of your hand and a straight answer about which one. No appointment, no charge, and we will say so if none of them is right for you.