💈 Back with a Puro Handsome Barbershop Experience | Relaxing Hot Towel Shave in San Antonio

💈 Back with a Puro Handsome Barbershop Experience ✨ Relaxing Hot Towel Shave in San Antonio, Texas

Filmed last year, this video features Tommie Gonzalez, who we visited on two separate occasions. So you’ll probably recognize him from our previous videos 💇🏻‍♂️ This time we filmed at Tommie’s second shop located inside the Burns Building. Built in 1919, this downtown building was originally a department store 🛍️

▶️ Watch the scissor haircut video with Tommie here: https://youtu.be/1-N2B8FDDZQ

💿 Fun fact: The record you see at the beginning from Mazz was Tommie’s uncle’s band 🎶 But, we had to go with royalty-free music to avoid any copyright violations on the channel. A legendary Tejano band, Mazz hails from Brownsville, Texas, and Tommie’s uncle, Jimmy Gonzalez, was a multi-Grammy award winning songwriter ✨

Tommie grew up in Brownsville, Texas and had a career in television broadcast marketing as well as the music industry prior to making the switch to becoming a barber. Work took him far from his home in San Antonio, Texas, to Berlin, Germany, and Scandinavia.

However, with the proliferation of digital music downloads, Tommie became increasingly disillusioned with the industry.

“I didn't find any value in it anymore," Tommie explained.

But a haircut? That’s something that can’t be downloaded or streamed. It was this realization that sparked a shift for Tommie.

Depressed and no longer happy with the direction of his place in the music industry, it was a chance meeting within a simple three-chaired barbershop in Oslo, Norway, that proved to be a pivotal turning point!

The shop was owned by an older barber who had been cutting hair for over 40 years in the same location just off a small breezeway near a performance hall there called the Folketeateret. The inside of the shop was a collection of seemingly random items that had taken over the space, and in between the magazine piles and boxes were three barber chairs.

Waiting by his chair was a barber happy to receive the next customer and share a moment or story. A low-resolution picture framed of the barber with his old Corvette hung from the barber's mirror!

"He just made me feel like I was the most important person in the world," added Tommie, "He made me feel like I was welcome there.” And this was at a time when Tommie was down and heartbroken, and he says, “nothing made me feel good.” He remembers this barber just put him in the best mood he had been in a very long time ❤️

✨ So in 2016, Tommie enrolled in barber school and began his barbering journey.

Now Tommie owns two Puro Handsome barbershops in downtown San Antonio 💈 He is quick to share his San Antonio roots and desire to promote local culture.

Tommie explained the loose translation of "puro" as "100%, through and through, genuine, any synonym you can imagine of those adjectives.”

Ask locals the meaning of puro, and you will get a lot of different interesting beautiful answers, "and none of them are wrong!" Tommie adds, "it's a very unique and special word for this community.”

▶️ For more videos from barbershops in Texas, check out this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2GmdNY-n064cha3CI5mcb8o0U_ndynhc

S P E C I A L T H A N K S:

Tommie Gonzalez, Barber & Owner
Puro Handsome Barbershop 👉🏼 https://www.instagram.com/puro_handsome_barbershop/
106 Jefferson Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205

To book an appointment and for current prices of services, please visit👇🏼
https://purohandsome.com/shops-and-barbers

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