The Salty Barber is a barber shop at 2 Dawick Street in Foxton Beach, Horowhenua, holding a 5.0 rating across 10 Google reviews. Reviewers are warm about Ian — personable, full of good yarns, great music while he cuts — and families bring their boys in for fades.
A good fade is the true test of a barber: it takes steady clipper work and careful blending so the cut still looks sharp weeks later as it grows out. Barbers patient with children earn families' loyalty — a fidgety youngster's fade is harder work than it looks. In a small coastal township the barber's chair often doubles as a local institution, where word of mouth beats any advertisement. Regulars tend to stick with one cutter who learns how their hair sits and how they like it.
Half the point of a small-town barber is the company, and on the evidence of its reviews, Foxton Beach is well served by The Salty Barber.