Faded by Gina is one of the rare woman-led chairs in Hillcrest's barbering lineup, built around a clipper-fade specialty for thick unruly hair and shaped curls out of a studio suite at 535 University Avenue. The cross-texture focus — most barbershops build their menus around straight and wavy hair — draws clients across the fade-and-style spectrum and overlaps the dress-up alterations flow at Julie's Cleaners and Alterations up the block. The same studio carries special-occasion makeup artistry, adding a bridal and event-day lane that most clipper-first shops do not touch. That textured-hair specialty puts Faded by Gina in direct service overlap with Rachelle Hair Braiding, which handles the braid-and-protective-style side of the same curl-shaping referral base. The most involved booking is a combined clipper fade on the sides with scissor-over-comb curl shaping on top plus full event-day makeup, a multi-service seat aimed at wedding-party and photo-shoot clients.