how much to pay for a haircut?

Savvy_Sue

top_drawer wrote: »

I had a cut short a pretty high class salon awhile and paid a £10 as it was with one of their trainees. I've since been back when I could afford too and had it cut back into shape at a cost of around £35 - this was the quickest £35 Ive ever spent as the whole cut was over and done with inside 30 mins!!

I like the hair cut a lot, its very fashionable and Ive found that its quite difficult to get a hairdresser who actually cares about what they are cutting you hair into and can give decent advice.

I'm just wondering I am I being a bit tight and is this reasonable or should I go elsewhere?

Getting on for 15 years ago, I had my waist-length hair cut into a bob with what should have been a wispy fringe at a top salon in Guildford. I had it done on a charity day, so that if I hated it I would at least feel that the money had gone to charity. The home hairdresser who did the boys' hair wouldn't do it in case I hated it!

After that I had it trimmed a couple of times at the salon on their 'walk in and whoever is free will give you a cut for £16' scheme, which was a lot of money for me. Then one day a chap was free, and he did the most amazing thing to this wispy fringe - he cut it right down to the roots! :eek: It was fantastic: he said "You were really worried about that, weren't you, but it looks great, doesn't it?" And he was right on both counts.

So I went back and made my next appointment with him. At which point I discovered he was the deputy salon director, and charged £35 a time. :eek:

Now however good the cut was - and no-one else ever liked cutting the fringe off like he had - I really could NOT justify £35 for a hair cut, nor could we afford it.

So the boys' hairdresser took over my hair cuts, and learned to do a pretty good job. She also talked me through what she was doing, so that I could describe it to anyone in future.

When we moved away, it took several attempts to find someone who would do what I wanted, but I've now succeeded and it costs me £16 to have it done by the salon owner. I will let other people do it if she's not available, because most of her staff have seen her do it, and pay attention to what I want.

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that it didn't immediately strike me as unreasonable, given that I was paying that much so long ago, BUT it's only 'worth it' if you're happy with the results. The trainee took ages, the latest person took less than half an hour - but did you get a good cut? I'm shampooed, conditioned, cut and out of there in well under half an hour, BUT I've got the cut I wanted.

BTW, the reason my hair was so long to begin with was purely down to bad experiences with hairdressers in my youth. OK, so some of THAT was because I was a hairdresser's nightmare, desperately wanting curly hair without having a perm, and the setting lotion which would 'set' my hair certainly hadn't been invented then.

mazza111

Tbh, I'm a skinflint when it comes to my hair. Colour it at home, just the to cover the grey that's been there since I was 16 :eek: I have long hair, very thick, very good condition. Even got told off for using so much protection on my hair as I didn't need it, lol. So wash it before I go to the local salon and just have a cut. Costs around £10 :T Never like the way anyone blowdries my hair anyway as they never get all the curls out.

I used to always go for a cut and blow dry and was around £30 in the same salon's so decided it just wasn't worth it.

ailuro2

£25 for a cut and blow dry, about every 4 months, or longer if I can get away with it.:o