WooHoo! I just paid £7 for a haircut! (inc tip!) How much do you pay?

thepinklady

Mines far too much. I'm getting it cut and coloured on Saturday and its going to cost me £90+ - its shocking how much hairdressers can charge.

Jacks - i'm really impressed with £7 including a tip, thats fantastic.
x

LilMissEmmylou

i thought i had done well at £17.50 for a cut and blow dry at the weekend lol but £7 is bloody great! I colour my own though

Ames

I've not found anywhere in Leeds to get a cut for less than £30, it drives me mad that just a trim costs the same as a full restyle, which is the main reason I've not had it cut in about 18 months. The last one I went to was the local one, in the middle of an inner city 'sink' estate, I assumed it'd be cheaper. Wrong! It was £2 more expensive than the city centre places, and she told me I needed to start dying it to cover the grey, what she suggested (which sounded horrible) would have been £80!! I bought a bottle of dye from wilkinsons but didn't get round to using it and now my hair's too long according to the instructions.

I think there's a super cuts in Morley where it's less than £20 for a cut so I'll probably go there in the next couple of months, it's a mess now and I'm sick of always having to tie it up.

Jacks_xxx

Hello again lovelies! :wave:

We've just done the obligatory day before school starts again "What do you mean your school shoes don't fit you any more?!" emergency visit to Clarks so I'm even more glad that i saved money on my hair now. :rolleyes:

Ooh Bagpuss! I can't tell you how jealous I am of people who have relatives who can cut hair. I am seriously considering seeing if I can learn how to do it myself. All those juniors are on day release at college aren't they? So if they can learn it in one day a week I bet I can!

What you're paying doesn't sound too bad Suzialwaysbroke - It's a lot less than I'm used to shelling out. I'm pretty happy with my bargain cut but starting to feel scared about doing the colour myself. It's all very well having some crazy twotone colour on your head when you're 19 and gorgeous and can carry anything off but at my age I'm aimimg for ahem ..."classy" and I'm really worried I'm going to go a funny colour! :eek:

Do you know **Amy** I don't trust myself with a pack of hair dye - yet - but I could quite cheerfully skip the blowdry part cos like you I think I do a better job of it and I don't gunk it up with product and have to wash it the next day like they do!

Aww Peb my sweet - £6???!!!!! Six blimmin quid! :eek: It's annoying when things go up I know - but that is a total bargain my love. The salon I used to go to would trim my fringe for free but so they blimmin should for what I'd paid for the cut originally! I think the reason I've been paying all that dosh for colour is that I am a lazy @r$e and I can't be faffed with the mess and the stress but tonight I am going to get it done. I'm off to meet an old friend tomorrow and if I've got lovely shiny non grey hair maybe she won't notice that the beaming face beneath my new fringe is a bit rounder tha the last time she saw me!

I use the freebies for my daughters twice a year if she's very very good haircuts Maz - am I wicked?! I have just had so-o-o-o-o many rubbish haircuts that I really wanted to stay with someone I know is just a tiny bit scared of me :rotfl: so is always ultra-cautious and careful with my hair. But this lady today just trimmed it following the same style and it feels fine. I haven't styled it or anything yet because I'm dyeing tonight, but it seems to have just fallen into place. (Yay!)

£7-10 Jembie! :eek: I'm very envious! I guess you must be happy with it if you keep going? My tip used to cost more than that! I'm feeling a bit silly actually to see that even round here in The Most Expensive Area On Earth (It feels that way sometimes!) I don't have to pay over £100 to have my hair done and I'm wondering why the heck I've been doing it for so flippin' long.

£8.50's a good price Gemmzie. I'm thinking of asking this lady to come round to do us all at once every otehr month or something. I know my son pays about £20 to have his cut every six weeks and I'm sure he'd be happier to pay the £5 she seems to charge everybody regardless. I don't begrudge the couple of quid tip when I've only paid a fiver to start with whereas when I've just shelled out £114 I resent having to hand over another tenner for a tip (then walk home cos I can't afford the bus fare!)

Hey Kas, I think £35 is a pretty good price for all that honey. I tell you what else bums me out about the hairdressers though - it's the time it takes. I always seem to be there about three and a half hours because of all the hanging about - and I get bored and start thinking about all the stuff I could be doing instead! My cut today took about ten minutes and my colour tonight can develop whilst I do a facemask and body scrub and I'll jump inthe shower and rinse it all off together. Hubby won't recognise me - I'll come out of the bathroom a whole new woman! :rotfl:

Single Sue You are putting me to shame! Four haircuts for £22?! :eek: I'm really embarrassed about how much I've been spending.
How was Paintballing by the way? (I was reading your sig) It's very reassuing to read that so many people use home colour, it's making me feel a bit braver!

OOh Ally_Bally - a girl after my own heart! That's what I've been doing - leaving it as long as I could stand between appointments, and not spending any money on clothes. But when it gets to the point that the Postman is commenting about I've always got the same top on every time he sees me I thought it was probably time for a wardrobe overhaul - and you can't have everything can you? £300 at La Redoute later I can't have anything at all for quite a while - but at least now I have more than 4 tops and 3 pairs of trousers so I won't have to endure any more impertinent remarks from the postman!

I think that's a very good price Tiddles - before I found my marvellous £7 inc tip lady I would have been overjoyed to have found somewhere to do it for that kind of money. The reson I took the plunge today is that I thought well, If I'm going to have to pay £82 to sit in a white plastic garden chair and be irritated by a gormless 17 year old and stressed out about what the heck she's doing to my hair then I might as well risk it. If I hate it then well at least it only cost £7! (There's logic in there somewhere, maybe!)

Southernbelle that's a bargain chick! Proper cheap indeed! So lasy Year I spent about £400 on getting my hair done and you spent what £40 on cuts plus hairdye every couple of months? So about £70 total maybe? Including tip! That kindof crystallizes for me really. I'm sure my hairdresser will miss me bossing him about but he'll just have to get used to it won't he?:D

I reckon £20 is cheap in most places Mummytofour - although some of these girls are getting an amazing bargain and making me feel a bit ashamed for being a vain tart and not biting the bullet and exploring other options before.

Is that a bargain for Brighton Kiki? I've got it into my head that Brighton is another expensive part of the world to live in - but p'raps that because we eat and drink so much every time we're there so it seems expensive to us! I was shocked at your £30 Australian blowdry but then I spoke to my buddy a minute ago and she paid £45 for a wash, blowdry and tonging the other day. Ouch!

My hubby will be very cross with you when he gets home Ms Snaggles cos guess who's just inspired me to ask for some help from him in doing the back! He already waxes the bit of my bikini line that I can't reach (TMI?:o Sorry ladies! ) so I reckon he thinks that's quite enough involvement in my beauty routine for one man! Awww...He'll have a panic attack when I tell him that I have a little job for him and I hand him some latex gloves! :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:

I cut my hair exactly like that for years PlumTreeBabe! It was all the rage when I was a poor student and I'd read somewhere that that's how Debbie Harry did her hair so that seemed a good enough reason to strat doing it myself! (Showing my age there!) I went to a hair show a couple of years ago and I laughed myself silly when I saw - Lee Stafford I think it was - demonstrating it onstage as a fab new technique! He nicked it off you, me and Debbie Harry didn't he - the cheeky monkey?!

Oh Horace you're a braver woman than me! I get tense anyway wondering what the heck they're doing with my hair if it's someone new cutting it If it took ages I'd have way too much time to work myself up into a right tizzy! Isn't it amazing how bad at washing hair some of the juniors are?! Even their first week they must get plenty of practice you'd think! Maybe people don't tell them - or they don't notice that the client is one step away from calling the coastguard out to rescue them from drowning?!

Little Miss Saver you (and your Mum ) are well ahead of me on the bargain haircuts front! I clipper my hubby at home but my son likes a longer messy look so I just attack it with a pair of scissors once in a while when he's too broke to pay a professional! It's quite therapeutic really...!

And she tried to refuse the £2 tip Urg123! I gather she just charges everybody a fiver for a bit of pin money and that's that. She says she does a lot of pensioners and she doesn't like to charge any more. Especially as they usually give her a cuppa and a piece of cake as well while she's there. I think it's marvellous that Your hairdresser will come to your house and not make you pay salon prices. He sounds like a treasure.

That's the way to do it free4440273! Sadly it would not be a good look on me I don't suppose! I do Hubby that way though. or he does himself and I just check for missed tufts!

I'm beginning to think that what they charge has no relation to costs thepinklady and they just wake up one morning and decide to charge £100 or £90 willy nilly. But now I have a viable option perhaps I won't have to pay it any more. (I might have to see how the colour turns out first!;) )

£17.50 is briliant LilMissEmmyLou! I wish I lived round your way! There just doesn't seem to be any bargain places in my neck of the woods Even the places that look cheap - aren't!

I hate it when you just need a little tidy up and it still costs the same as a proper cut as well Ames. At the place I used to go to before I found my £7 inc tip lady they charge you an extra £12 if you change your style! So when I had it chopped into a shortish bob it was more expensive than my usual long layers even thoug it took a lot less time because of ther being less hair to colour and style. You'll have to find yourself a little mobile lady to come round and do it for a fiver honey!


Okey dokey... well.... I'm off to lock myself in the bathroom now with a packet of Castings - Wish me Luck!

Love Jacks xxx

PS I've just seen how long this post is! :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:

Gemmzie

Had to thank that essay just for the sheer length of it

postingalwaysposting

£3 for a trim/cut, £8 for a style, £10 for highlights, £18 for a colour and £25 for a perm :j I have a trim/cut every six months

Snaggles

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

Hello again lovelies! :wave:

Hellooooo Jacks xxx!!! :hello:

My hubby will be very cross with you when he gets home Ms Snaggles cos guess who's just inspired me to ask for some help from him in doing the back! He already waxes the bit of my bikini line that I can't reach (TMI?:o Sorry ladies! ) so I reckon he thinks that's quite enough involvement in my beauty routine for one man! Awww...He'll have a panic attack when I tell him that I have a little job for him and I hand him some latex gloves! :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I can relate to that, Stu looked at me most strangely the first time I handed him the gloves and asked if he would help me with something!

We could start a 'What does your hubby do for you?' thread....or maybe not as there is already plenty of THAT kind of thing on here. :rotfl:

cantcope

I pay £14 for a cut and blowdry. I straighten and finish it off at home as they charge and extra fiver for that. I dye my hair at home. Much quicker and cheaper.
Gone are the days when i spent £50 plus just for a cut and finish.

rb6ac

I now feel very embarassed! £57 for a restyle and blowdry. Going to try the local college next time for £4.50 for the same thing

Keeping_Positive

Hello again lovelies! :wave:

"We've just done the obligatory day before school starts again "What do you mean your school shoes don't fit you any more?!" emergency visit to Clarks so I'm even more glad that i saved money on my hair now. :rolleyes: "


Need to do that soon DD1 wore trainers today:o ! Im sure it isent that long ago I brought new shoes .

Back to the thread topic - I have a great neighbour who will cut and blow dry for around £15 and does OH and kids for £5-10 each. Last job was £70 for all five of us including t-cut highlights for me.