Good Luck Barbers Singapore: Evening Cuts on Amoy Street

Good Luck Barbers, at 51 Amoy Street, is the barber shop near me answer for anyone who finishes work too late for the traditional shops nearby: on weekdays the chairs run until 9pm. A Classic Haircut with wash costs S$68 and a Classic Clean Shave S$55. Three senior barbers with twelve to seventeen years of experience each run the room.

The shop is small and built around its team. The about page introduces three barbers by first name, Rino, Vinnie and Jed, and the booking listing gives their experience: Rino as Senior Barber with 17 years, Jed Rabsan with 14 years and Vinnie with 12 years. Between them that is more than forty years at the chair, which is unusual depth for a shop this size.

Good Luck Barbers does not publish a founding story or a founder's name, and it does not need one to make its case. Its own line is that the barbershop blends comfort with professionalism, and the reviews on its booking listing, more than a hundred of them with recent ones from this month, tend to name the barber rather than the décor. One recent review thanks Vinnie for bringing the writer's face and hair back to life.

The street name has a story of its own. Amoy is the old English name for Xiamen, the Fujian port many Hokkien settlers sailed from, and Siang Cho Keong Temple still stands a short walk up the same street, a reminder of who first lived in these shophouses.

The menu is clear and every price is published. The Classic Haircut, 45 minutes for S$68, covers a consultation, wash, haircut and finish. The Deluxe Haircut, an hour for S$88, adds a head and shoulder massage before the wash, the version to book after a long day at a desk.

The shaves are carefully staged. The Classic Clean Shave, 30 minutes for S$55, runs from consultation and facial cleansing through hot towel prep, rich lather and the shave to a post-shave balm. The Deluxe Clean Shave, 45 minutes for S$75, adds a facial scrub, a cold towel and a moisturiser. A Head Shave costs S$65 for 45 minutes, with pre-shave oil and hot towel prep.

Beards get the same treatment. The Classic Beard Trim with Razor Finish takes 30 minutes for S$55 and includes straight razor detailing and a cold towel, while the Deluxe Beard Trim Experience takes 45 minutes for S$75. The top of the menu is The GLB Signature Experience, one hour fifty minutes for S$149.90, combining a Deluxe Haircut with a revitalising facial and a scalp treatment.

Two prices make return visits cheaper. The 15 Days Refresh costs S$48 for 35 minutes if you come back within 15 days of your first full haircut, and the Youth cut for children aged 13 and below costs S$45. For a regular office haircut, booking the refresh in the third week keeps the shape for a fraction of the full price.

Choosing between the classic and deluxe versions is straightforward. The classic services cover everything a regular cut or shave needs, while the deluxe versions add about fifteen minutes of extra care, a massage for the haircut and a scrub, cold towel and moisturiser for the shave, for S$20 more. If you have never had a straight razor shave, the Deluxe Clean Shave at S$75 is the version that shows the most of what the barbers can do.

Good Luck Barbers does not list its hours on its own site; they are published on its Fresha booking page. Monday to Friday it opens from 11am to 9pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 8pm. Bookings on Fresha get instant confirmation, use WhatsApp, or send a message through the contact form.

The booking listing marks the shop as pet-friendly, so a well-behaved dog can come along. The treatment menu on the booking page also mentions POSTCARD's natural shampoo and a Natua organic head spa therapy developed in Italy, for anyone who wants more than a cut.

Some services on the booking page are priced as from figures and bundled with facials, so the menu on the official site is the better guide to single services. If you are booking a combination, check the total before you confirm.

Thian Hock Keng Temple on Telok Ayer Street is one street over, a Hokkien temple from the nineteenth century whose roof ridges are covered in carved dragons and porcelain figures. Visit before your cut, since an evening appointment will finish after the temple has closed for the day.

Maxwell Food Centre is the easy dinner afterwards, a short walk south toward Chinatown. Its stalls serve chicken rice, porridge and Chinese desserts at hawker prices. Further along, Amoy Street and Telok Ayer Street are lined with restaurants and bars in restored shophouses.

For a quicker meal, Amoy Street Food Centre at the southern end of the street is a two-storey hawker centre, though most of its stalls cater to the office lunch crowd, so Maxwell is the safer choice for dinner after an evening appointment. If you come at the weekend, the lunch trade is quieter and a morning cut can roll straight into a hawker meal without a queue for seats.

Address: 51 Amoy Street, Singapore 069877. Hours, per its booking page: Monday to Friday 11am to 9pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 8pm. Classic Haircut S$68, Classic Clean Shave S$55, Head Shave S$65. Book on Fresha.

Tanjong Pagar, Maxwell and Telok Ayer MRT stations are all within walking distance. For an after-work booking, reserve the 7pm or 8pm slot a few days ahead, since the late slots are the ones that fit around most office hours.