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Staying ahead of the curve when it comes to style isn’t just for the fashion world—your haircut matters, too. At The Wellington Barber in Ballymena, we’re seeing new trends emerge as men ...
Top 5 Men’s Haircuts for 2025 in Ballymena

Having a well-groomed beard can make you look and feel your best. Obviously we would love to take care of your beard trims here at the wellington barber but there’s plenty of work for you to do ...
Beard Grooming Tips for Men at Home

Building a client base is essential for any barber, regardless of whether you're just starting out or you've been in the industry for a while. Here are some tips on what you should and shouldn't do ...
Tips for Beginner Barbers on Building a Client Base

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of mental health for men. Men are increasingly talking about their mental health challenges, and there are more resources ...
Why Male Grooming is Important for Mental Health?

Getting a haircut at the barbers can be a daunting task for some kids, especially if they're not used to it or if they've had a bad experience in the past. As a parent, you want to do everything you ...
Tips for Parents: When your child is nervous about getting a haircut

We are very pleased to now be registered as a safe place. We are equipped to give anyone who needs guidance the details of support organisations who can help them or their loved ones in situations of ...
Proud to be a registered safe place

We are now offering nose waxing in the shop after a few people asked us about it we thought we would give it a go and its turning out to be very popular and whats even better is its first go ...
New Service

Barry headed to the Fine and Dandy market in Belfast on the 31st July to do our very first pop up shop in conjunction with Urban Tonic beard ...
Our first pop up shop

Cutthroatsteve was very proud to go onto the Autism Barbers Assemble stand on Monday the 27th June to do a cut on his good friend Lee Mahon from Squire ...
Autism Barbers @Barber Connect

Cutthroatsteve entered the UK Barber Battle and we are pleased to say he came in the top 10 with this skin fade pompadour on ...
UK Barber Battle top 10

We have taken the next step in our TWB journey and released our first products for you guys to keep yourselves stylish at home. Call in and see us to pick some ...
The Wellington Barber products

Happy birthday to us! What a year it's been! This day last year I took the jump into self employment and The Wellington Barber was born. I am so proud of what we have achieved in such a short space ...
We are one year old today!

Many of you will have noticed that we have had online booking on our Facebook page for a few weeks now.
To make this service available to as many of our clients as possible we have revamped our ...
New website online

After being nominated for the Best Barbers in Northern Ireland, we headed off to the Europa to the Northern Ireland Hair and Beauty Awards ...