Aaron Kiely cuts hair from Tuesday to Saturday in the SitStil salon on Dublin’s Drury Street, but the 24-year-old from Tallaght loves his trade so much that he is setting up his own pop-up venture on his days off.Kiely has cut hair on the street before – in Dublin’s docklands last summer – but tomorrow he will take up the scissors in the Bernard Shaw pub in Richmond Street. “There’s a limit to what you can do on the street, but I’ll have electricity this time.”
Kiely will give all his clients a sketch pad so if they want, they can draw while he cuts.
“I wanted somewhere people could come, relax and even have a beer. I want people to get a salon haircut without feeling they are in a salon.”
His props include a 40-year-old barber’s chair, but he stresses that the scissors it contains are new.
Kiely will cut men and women’s hair, with a special 10-minute “up-style” session for women. His first session at the Bernard Shaw is from 4pm until 8pm, and he plans to be there every second Sunday after that. To book, email him at aaronk345@gmail.com.
