Owner Lino Pizza, who has been running the shop since 1991, tells Stylist.co.uk that the incident was a "misunderstanding."

"I just do girls when we're not busy," he says.

According to SWNS, Pizza told the agency: "A lot of the time, we don't want to mess up a girl's hair. They can get all funny if you get it wrong."

Sam Smethers, Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society which promotes equality and rights for women, tells Stylist.co.uk that the shop was "almost certainly" acting illegally.

"The law says its illegal to discriminate on the grounds of sex unless there can be an objective justification," Smethers says. "They can't just say 'we're not going to cut your hair because you're a woman. Its just ridiculous."

"In this day and age most businesses would want to meet the needs of customers," she adds. "It's bonkers."

While it's commonplace to find both women and men in hairdressing salons, Kaminski is not the first woman to be turned away from a barber's chair.

In 2014 a "pro-man" barbershop in Liverpool banned women because they "take up too much room," and in 2015 a female reporter from the Newcastle Chronicle struggled to get a short back and sides in barbershops in Tyneside.

“I was mortified” – Barbershop throws out customer because she's a woman