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 straight-razor beard work are the room’s house style — slow scissor work, a careful part-line, and a single-use blade on hot lather for the men who book Beard Trim Deluxe. 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 and toddlers 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 standard Haircut is a real half-hour at the chair — shampoo, hot towel, head and shoulder massage, hot-lather neck shave — and is what most patrons book. For the longer beard work, Beard Trim Deluxe runs the same time and includes a straight-razor finish.
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.
— Jessica Mitchell · Owner Jessica Mitchell works the full tariff — from The Haircut and The Buzz to straight-razor beard work — for patrons across West Austin and the surrounding neighborhoods.