In-room grooming at The Beverly Hilton

Opened in 1955 at Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards, the Beverly Hilton has hosted the Golden Globe Awards for decades. Its International Ballroom is one of the city's main venues for galas and award dinners. The mid-century hotel centers on a large pool surrounded by cabanas.

Nominees, presenters and guests attending ballroom events often need a precise cut or line-up just hours before walking a carpet. The visit is quiet and contained: a cape, a clean station by the window, and a finished cut in well under the time it takes to go down to the lobby and back.

One call. One text. A sharper you.

His résumé is unusual for a house-call barber: more than seventeen years of cutting, licenses in barbering and cosmetology in several states, four shops owned, and years of travel with touring artists. Clients range from Dax and NLE Choppa to executives who never want their name mentioned. Expect fades blended without a visible line, tapers that grow out cleanly, line-ups drawn with a steady hand and beards shaped to the jaw. Straight hair, waves, curls and locs all get the same attention.

The address, 9876 Wilshire Blvd, puts The Beverly Hilton near Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive and Westfield Century City. Whether the plan is dinner, a premiere or an early flight, Ben can time the appointment around it, here or anywhere in Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood and Bel-Air.

Send a text or make a call to 608-201-7717, any hour. Ben confirms the time, quotes the visit (from $150, $300 standard between 11am and 7pm, adjusted for distance and late hours) and is on his way.