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A bit of a strange topic I know but it's got me curious.
I've just come back from having mine done at a local shop and it cost £6.80 for just a cut (If I colour it I do it myself at home). I've been using them for a few years and I've always been very happy with how they did it and didn't want to spend more.
Then I got talking to a friend in Leeds who spends £100+ each time she has hers done, obviously there's a large difference because I live in a town and she lives in a city but it still strikes me as an extravagant amount of money especially when it needs doing so regularly.
I used to spend £10 having it done by a girl that came to the house. I washed it, and then she would cut it and blow dry it.
Then i used to spend £130 a time having it cut and highlighted (3 colours with foils) and blow dried/straightened
Now I spend £55 every 6-8 weeks with a salon hairdresser - I adore the way she cuts my hair. If she isn't available and I'm desperate, then I use another hairdresser at the salon that charges £39. Both are wash, head massage, cut and blow dry. If I'm off out I'll get them to run the straighteners over too.
I dye it myself at the moment, so that costs about a fiver every couple of months.
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Had mine done today in a suburban, but pretty trendy salon (ie not one of those "Hair by Doreen" places with lilac nets!). It was £20 for a cut & blow dry and straighteners to finish and my hair's mid-length.
I pay £30 for wash/cut and blow wave. Will only go to one hairdresser and he has been cutting my hair for the last 24 years. He has the same texture hair as me so knows how to cut it. Way back in the eighties we both used to have the same hair cut. LOL
I do know many women who pay £100 for a cut and blow.
My DD2 has just had hers cut and has had highlights put in it. The end price was £150.
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I pay £12.50 for a wash cut and blowdry from a reasonably trendy salon in London. It's a no appointments necessary place (infact they don't make appointments at all, even if you ask), just turn up and wait for the next available stylist or wait a few minutes longer for your favourite stylist if you choose. The £12.50 is a fixed price, doesn't matter if it's a trim or a restyle, a senior stylist or junior.
I pay £12.50 for a wash cut and blowdry from a reasonably trendy salon in London. It's a no appointments necessary place (infact they don't make appointments at all, even if you ask), just turn up and wait for the next available stylist or wait a few minutes longer for your favourite stylist if you choose. The £12.50 is a fixed price, doesn't matter if it's a trim or a restyle, a senior stylist or junior.
for that price, you have to name it for the rest of us!!
i used to spend £30/£40 a go, but have now started going to a training salon at the local college. takes a while but for under a fiver, i'm very very happy!
I pay £35 for mine and thats for them to put the pink in my hair and cut & blow...bargain as they are the only salon that i contacted that could do it pink
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I pay naff all to have my mid-length hair cut, my friend does it for me even though she isn't professionally trained I am not precious about my hair so if she cocks it up I will just shave it off!
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I spent £25 on mine, cut & blow dry with straighteners. I have it done every 6-8weeks as my hair is graduated at the back so gets out of shape and my hair grows quickly!
Though I always have it done on a day where I have a nite out/special occasion to save me having to make it look tidy myself!
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Mine costs around £80 cut and highlighted. Only have it done around every 3 months due to it takeing 3/4 hours to do and basically i'm just too lazy Also, the highlights blend into my natural colour so it doesn't look odd, or obviously i would have to force myself to go more often
We had our mobile hairdresser round on Saturday to cut my husband's, 19-year-old son's and mine with a blow-dry - in total, £22.
Our daughter even travels up from London to have hers cut, coloured (foils) and blow-dried. This time it was a complete re-style from mid length to short and the cost - £33. I reckon that's a lot less than she'd pay in London. She travels up to visit quite regularly so we just book the hairdresser in advance, she's become a good family friend and we'd find it hard to replace her.
I pay £5 on training days at my local salon for a C&BD the manager is Toni & Guy trained and always checks it over and sometimes does the odd snip here and there. Highlights (t-section) cost me £12 with a C&BD, but can't get it cut at same time as the girls are only qualified enough for the colour at that stage.
No probs so far, this time a tiny bit shorter than I'd planned, but hey it will soon grow and it means I won't need to go back quite so soon.
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Cut, colour/s (foils) blow dry £60 and that is really cheap around here! I use root touch up inbetween. I used to colour mine at home all the time but it looks much better done professionally. I couldn't live without my straighteners either. In fact it really does cost a lot of time and money to look natural, what with the contact lenses and 'holiday skin' treatments!!
£30-ish a time for me, every month. Money well spent to sort out my hair.
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Also, the highlights blend into my natural colour so it doesn't look odd, or obviously i would have to force myself to go more often 
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