Marcus Vane
skin fades & tapers
Clipper surgeon. Can blend a fade so clean you can't find the line with a torch. Terse until he likes you, then you can't shut him up.
0 yrs on the chair
[ Est. 2016 · four chairs · walk-ins welcome ]
Sit down. Get sharp. Walk out new.
A proper barbershop on the corner of 8th & Vine. Skin fades, hot-towel shaves and beard work — cut by hand, timed by feel. No app, no upsell, no rush. A good cut outlasts a bad week.
- Cuts a week
- 0
- On the corner
- 0 yrs
- Regulars
- 0+
[ The cuts ]
What the chair does.
Seven things, priced honest, timed properly. Every cut ends with a hot towel and a mirror check — and if it isn't right, you sit back down. No charge for a tidy-up inside a fortnight.
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The Skin Fade
Tight to the skin at the neck, blended up to nothing. The cut everyone asks for and few shops get clean.
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02
The Scissor Cut
All scissor, no clipper. For hair with a bit of length and opinions of its own. Dried and dressed the way you'll actually wear it.
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03
Hot-Towel Shave
Steam, oil, a proper lather and a straight razor. Ten quiet minutes and the closest shave you'll get outside of your own hand.
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04
Beard Sculpt
Shape it, line it, oil it, done. We map the jaw first, then cut — a beard should look like it grew that way, not like it was drawn on.
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The Full Service
Cut, hot-towel shave, beard, the works — plus a drink and no clock in your eyeline. Book it on a slow afternoon and leave a new man.
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The Buzz
In, off, out. One guard, even all over, no mirror-talk. The cut for men who know exactly what they want and it's less hair.
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Kids' Chair under 12
First chair, first cape, first proper cut. We take our time, they get a lolly, and nobody cries — usually.
[ Book a chair ]
Grab a seat for Thursday.
Pick your service, then tap a free slot on the sheet. Greyed-out chairs are already spoken for. This is a demo board — it holds your pick on screen but sends nothing; a real one would talk to the shop's calendar.
Choose your service
Pick a free chair to hold it.
[ The shop ]
A corner, four chairs, one rule.
We took over the old cobbler's on 8th & Vine in 2016 — kept the tile floor, the pressed-tin ceiling and the smell of the place, added four chairs and a decent radio. It was meant to be a two-man shop. Word got round.
The one rule: you leave looking better than you came in, or you don't pay. That's it. No membership, no loyalty app, no forty-quid "signature experience." A cut is a cut. We do it well and we charge what it's worth.
Walk in and wait with a coffee, or book a chair and skip the queue. Either way you'll get the same cut and the same conversation — as much or as little as you like.
— The chairs at Lather, since 2016
[ The shelf ]
Take the shop home.
The same tins and bottles we use on you, sat on the counter by the till. Nothing you don't need, no ten-step routine — just the good stuff, made small-batch and honestly labelled.
Firm-Hold Pomade
£14Matte finish, all-day hold, washes out with water. No wet-look, no crunch.
Beard Oil №3
£16Cedar, black pepper and a little smoke. A few drops, work it in, done.
Sea-Salt Spray
£12Grit and lift for limp hair. Spray on damp, scrunch, leave it be.
Aftershave Balm
£13Cools the burn, kills the sting, no alcohol reek. Splash of witch hazel and calm.
Shave Soap Puck
£11Whips to a proper lather in seconds. Load a brush, build a shave.
Clay Paste
£15Reworkable hold, zero shine. Rub between palms, push through dry hair.