Franco barbershop is a barber at 8 Park Rd in Maupuia, a suburb in Wellington's east, and carries a 4.9 Google rating from its customers. A barber's craft lives in clippers and the blade: fading hair cleanly at the sides, keeping necklines and beards sharp, and blending so the cut still looks tidy three weeks on. It rewards a steady hand and a feel for how hair grows — the crown whorls, the grain behind the ears — which is why people often stay with the same barber for years. Regulars learn to give a brief, confident instruction — short at the sides, leave the top — and to dodge Saturday mornings, when the wait for a chair is longest almost anywhere. For Maupuia locals, Franco barbershop puts a well-rated cut close to home, with no trip over the hill into town needed.