Groom Room is a barbershop on Onehunga Mall that keeps things focused: it is highly specialised in haircuts and beard trims, delivered with the best techniques and products and a simple aim — making your hair look awesome. Nearly every service ends the traditional way, with a hot towel, and fade appointments come with a beverage on the side.
The team is led by Phil, senior barber and manager, alongside Aish, a master barber with more than eight years of experience, and Aki, a senior barber with over a decade behind the clippers. Online booking lets you choose both your service and your barber, and a dedicated consultation is available for anyone who wants to talk through style goals, face shape, hair type and maintenance first.
The menu runs from classic short back and sides and full scissor cuts to five styles of fade — zero, skin, burst, taper and mullet — plus beard trims, the Beard Lover shaping service, hot towel shaves and line-ups. Families are well catered for with kids' and student cuts, a lollipop-finished pamper session for children, a senior citizens cut for over-65s and undercut services for women, while deluxe grooming packages bundle a wash, cut, beard trim, hot towel and styling into one long appointment. The shop is open seven days a week, with late nights on Thursdays and Fridays.
Tucked onto Onehunga Mall, Groom Room is a barbershop that keeps its focus tight: haircuts and beard work, done well. The shop describes itself as highly specialised in a range of haircuts and beard trims, aiming to offer these services using the best techniques and products — with the simple goal of making your hair look awesome. There is no sprawling spa menu here; instead, a clear line-up of cuts, fades, beard services and grooming packages, nearly all of them finished the traditional way, with a hot towel.
Groom Room's team is led by Phil, the shop's senior barber and manager. He works alongside Aish, a master barber with more than eight years of experience, and Aki, a senior barber with over a decade behind the clippers. The shop's online booking system lets you choose your barber when you reserve a time, so regulars can stick with the chair — and the hands — they know.
For anyone unsure where to start, a dedicated consultation covers style goals, face shape, hair type and texture, maintenance and product suggestions before any scissors come out.
Fades come five ways at Groom Room: zero, skin, burst, taper and mullet. Each is built the same careful way — a smooth blend down to zero or skin on the back and sides, with your desired length on top — and every fade appointment finishes with a hot towel and a beverage.
If you prefer something classic, the standard men's cut takes the sides down with numbers one to five, adds scissor work on top and ends with product and a hot towel. Full scissor cuts, undercuts, all-over clipper cuts and a complete restyle — consultation, wash and any haircut included — round out the menu for longer hair and bigger changes.
Beard care gets its own section of the menu. A quick one-length trim handles tidy-ups with no fading, while the aptly named Beard Lover goes further, adding fade and shaping work for beards short or long and finishing with what the shop calls a crispy line-up. There is a hot towel shave, a standalone line-up with trimmer or razor, and a wax service covering face, nose and ears.
Adding a hair wash — shampoo, conditioner and styling into your chosen cut — is the team's own recommended way to get the most out of a visit.
Groom Room makes a point of looking after every age. Kids and students get their own standard cut, their own version of the fade menu and a scissors-only option, while the pamper session for kids bundles a wash, haircut, side design, line work, a hot towel and a lollipop — combining what the shop calls skill, patience and personality so the visit is smooth for parents and exciting for kids. Over-65s have a dedicated senior citizens cut, and women can book an undercut, trimming the hair beneath longer lengths to any short length.
For a full treat, the deluxe grooming packages — one pitched at dads, another at husbands or boyfriends — layer a wash, haircut, beard trim, hot towel treatment, aftershave finish and styling into a single long appointment, with wax included in the husband-and-boyfriend version.
You'll find Groom Room at 130e Onehunga Mall, open seven days a week from 10am to 6pm, with late nights until 7pm on Thursdays and Fridays. Bookings run through the shop's online booking page, where you can pick your service and your barber. Whether it's a first fade, a school-ready trim, a beard reshape or the works with a hot towel at the end, the formula is the same: specialised technique, good products and a finish that makes your hair look awesome.