The Excell Hair Cutting Salon

You can find our shop at 77/H/12 on Narkel Danga North Road. It is a very busy street with people and cars moving all the time. This salon has been here for quite some time now. It is not a very large space inside, but we make it work for us. We have two main chairs for adults and a smaller one we use for the children. The light inside is usually good because of the big window at the front, even though it gets noisy with all the traffic outside. We do all the usual haircuts and shaves. We still use the old-style straight razors for the shaves. You have to have a steady hand for those. Most of the men living in this part of Narkel Danga come to our place. We know most of their names and exactly how they like their hair to be cut. It is a community thing more than anything else. We do not have a website or any of that modern stuff. Just the sign hanging above the door. Sometimes the electricity goes out in the afternoon and we have to use hand fans to stay cool. That is just part of life here in Kolkata. We keep the shop open every day of the week except for a few major holidays. If the floor looks a bit messy with hair, it is just because we had a rush of customers. We sweep it up when things quiet down.