Shalu Gents Beauty Parlour

Our shop is at number 3 on Nagavara Main Road in Venkateshapuram. If you know where the Total Gas station is, we are right opposite that. Nagavara Main Road is always full of traffic, with trucks and bikes zooming past all the time. It gets quite dusty outside, so we have to wipe down our counters and mirrors several times a day. Shalu Gents Beauty Parlour is a modest place where men from the locality come for a quick trim or a shave. We have some basic chairs and a small bench for people to sit on while they wait their turn. The ceiling fan hums along all day, trying to keep the place cool. We use simple tools and do not have any of those modern machines you see in the big malls. It is just us and our scissors. Sometimes the local shopkeepers come in for a chat during the slow hours in the afternoon. We know most of the people who walk past our door. The lighting is just a few fluorescent tubes that flicker a bit when they first turn on. We keep a stack of old magazines on the table, though most people just look out at the road or check their phones. It is a honest day's work for us, and we have been at this spot for a good while now. We do not ask for much, just a steady stream of customers and enough tea to get through the day.