Jessica is the owner of Waterloo Barbershop and the woman behind the chair. She opened the shop in 2026 to put a real, working barber’s parlour back on the west side of the city — the kind of room she had spent years cutting hair in, rebuilt the way she’d want to walk into on a Tuesday morning.
What she’s known for
The full range of the trade. Classic men’s cuts and hot-towel shaves are the room’s house style — slow scissor work, a careful part-line, and a straight razor on a hot towel for the men who book the Hot-Towel Shave. She also does modern work: skin fades, taper cuts, and the cleaner contemporary lines younger patrons usually ask for. Beards she sets back to shape; kids she takes through patiently.
In short: nothing in the tariff is sub-contracted to another chair. Jessica works the chair you book.
How long she’s been at it
Cutting hair since 2010 — fifteen-and-some years through several chairs in west Austin before she opened her own. She came up through old-school barber training, and you can hear it in how she runs the chair: the towel before the lather, two passes never one, a clean neckline as the last thing you see before the cape comes off.
When she’s at the chair
Tuesday through Saturday. The room is closed Sunday and Monday so the chair gets a real day off. Reserve online or telephone the shop. The Master’s Chair — an unhurried hour with Jessica — is the most-booked appointment of the week; if it’s spoken for, the standard Gentleman’s Cut is the same hands and the same standard, in forty-five minutes.
A note on the second chair
Waterloo has space for a second barber and Jessica is hiring. If you’re a barber or stylist with several years on the floor and you’d like to talk about Chair II, send a note to the shop.