The barber who comes to Sunset Tower Hotel

This 1929 Art Deco tower began as a luxury apartment building and is now a hotel with sweeping city views. The wood-paneled Tower Bar is a well-known dining room for the entertainment crowd. A terrace pool sits beside the tower.

Guests here are often heading to industry dinners or award-season parties along the Strip and want a clean, camera-ready look first. A suite becomes a private barbershop for the length of the appointment, then simply a suite again, with nothing left behind but a sharper reflection.

Your schedule sets the appointment.

Ben holds licenses in barbering and cosmetology in multiple states. Before Los Angeles he built and ran four barbershops, and his chair has since followed entertainers on tour and onto television and music video sets. Rod Wave, Polo G and Lamar Odom are among the names who have sat with him. His specialty is the short cut done properly: skin fades, low and mid tapers, line-ups, 360 waves, beard sculpting and clean head shaves, on straight, wavy, curly and coily hair alike.

Sunset Tower Hotel sits at 8358 Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, close to Chateau Marmont, The Comedy Store and Sunset Plaza. Ben works across the neighborhood and nearby Hollywood Hills, Beverly Grove and Hollywood, so moving from a hotel room to a home or a set later in the day is no trouble.

There is one way to book and it is fast: a call or a text to 608-201-7717. He is available 24/7, including holidays. Haircuts start at $150, the standard daytime rate is $300, and travel distance and time of day set the final number.