K Style Studios

Kirsten is right, this is by far the most eccentric hairdresser I have ever set foot in! However, that didn’t detract in the least from a great haircut and home styling advice for a rock bottom £7. For Manchester, £7 is cheap — even your run-​of-​the-​mill Manchester barber will charge £12 for a basic gents dry cut. And £5 saved will buy lunch from Barbakan Delicatessen, Unicorn or a huge amount of fruit and veg from the bargainous Khawaja Brothers Mini Market, then you can borrow some books from Chorlton Public Library, etc — and all of this centred around a tiny area, saving you time as well as money whilst… enjoying yourself in chilled out Chorlton!
Chorlton has a reputation of being home to a diverse and happy family of quirky businesses and community activities, but I think K-​Style would give Wowie Zowie, The Bar and any of them a run for their money! The barber chairs are so vintage they are back in fashion, and Ron Keeling’s braces and bald head mark him as also being from an earlier era. Framed pictures of celebrities and signed sporting memorabilia adorn the walls, large ceramic batsman and umpire figurines stand ‘not out’ on the mantelpiece and union jack bunting finishes off the look. As I informed my stylist what sort of cut I was after, I was slightly taken aback when Mr. K interjected offering me a haircut like his, patting his bald pâté for emphasis!
The Iranian stylist who cut my hair is equally amusing, but also a gentle and highly skilled barber. I gratefully received his offer of a mug of water — he’d noticed how hot I was, how nice! Lastly, goodbye side parting; hello forward comb and spiked up — I rocked back out onto the Chorlton streets, K-​Style!
Disclaimer: K-​Style also has a pleasant Iranian lady stylist who will simply cut your hair!

Due to the (un)reliability of Manchester’s buses and the fact that my bus stop is located right outside this hairdressers and barbers, I feel that I can give it a fair review despite the fact I have never had a haircut there.
The staff seem really friendly, if a little bit eccentric. I know this as they often sell second hand books outside the salon. Original idea, I suppose!
It is £7 for a gent’s haircut and a bargainous £7 for a trim for us ladies. I am pretty sure you wouldn’t get a trim for any cheaper than that without asking your housemate to do it with the kitchen scissors. My housemate always gets his barnet cut here, and was very upset on one occasion when he had to go somewhere else due to K-​Style being closed.
On putting the name of this salon into google, up popped a BBC Sport article — apparently Freddie Flintoff, Ian Botham and Mike Atherton have all had their hair cut at K-​Style and barber Ron Keeling has even been on tour with the England cricket team!