Alben

Alben Valderrama does not believe in a good enough haircut. The founder and master barber of AABlendz Studio picked up the clippers at 16, turned a high school cosmetology room and a basement into his first shops, and has earned his clients one chair at a time ever since.

His standard is simple: the cut is finished only when it is exactly right. He reads head shape and growth pattern before the first pass, checks every blend in more than one light and refines every line by hand. His chair is the benchmark every other chair in the studio is measured against.