“B.A.B.E. of Brooklyn barbershop and products help guys stay suave”.
B.A.B.E. of Brooklyn is a beloved brand and barbershop. But the original babe?
That’s co-founder’s mom, a licensed cosmetologist. Mrs. Gracie Allen began doing hair in the 1960s in her Crown Heights house and a local salon (her late husband was a Navy seaman who served several wars before making Brooklyn his home in the 1940’s.
With 1,000 hours of training in specialities such as marcelling, iron curling, permanent waving, bleaches, hygiene and anatomy, she was well prepared to coif her clients.
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