Opinion on hairdresser charges

CruisingSaver

jaylee3 wrote: »

So let me get this straight, people are prepared to pay £35 to £47 for a HAIRCUT?! Just basically, a TRIM (or supposed restyle?) I pay my hairdresser (who has a mobile service) £7.50, and even the hairdresser in town charges only £12. DH pays £5 at the barbers for his.

No wonder some hairdressers charge such massively over-inflated ridiculous prices, especially the swanky salons if people are bonkers enough to pay it!

Some people will come along and say 'it's an art' 'it's a craft' or some such lines... And maybe it is, but if my hairdresser can charge £7.50, and the salon in town charges £12, then how does anyone justify charging almost £50 for the same service?

I think they prey on the pretentious, and people who have more money than sense.

Wow! How rude is that?! Whilst what I pay is the lower end of your supposed pretentiousness scale I don't consider it to be particularly OTT in terms of cost.


There's nowhere in my area that would charge anything near as low as £7.50 or £12 for a ladies cut and blow (and I live up North too!). In fact at such a low price I'd be questioning the qualifications and skill of the person doing the cut!

suejb2

Personally I think it was cheeky of this hairdresser to have additional charges for trimming the layers that were already there

On a tangent my S.I.L was visiting from down south and taking into account the cost of the air fare her haircut up here was still cheaper than her usual salon!.

gellerbing

meer53 wrote: »

I pay £65 for a cut and colour, this is fairly standard at most salons i've found. City centre salons will be higher than this.

When did you last go to a salon ?

must about 3 years now, but i know still roughly that price or lower even now, but then i live in a small county not a big city

sidefx

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

My partner's barber cut is £10, I can't get a mobile hairdresser for less than £26 for a trim.

Luckily I like having long hair!

Why don't you just go to your partners barber?

I'm sure he can trim long hair too.

[Deleted User]

I went into a hair salon, their advertised price was £29.99 for half head of foils, cut and blow dry, £44 for full head of foils, cut and blow dry. This was cheap, no question about it.., but it was all I could afford.

But when I went in there they wanted to charge me an extra tenner because my hair was touching my shoulders in places as I sat in the chair (was a bit hunched up). It was a cheap price but the extra was making it less inexpensive (comparable to other salons). Plus, I didn't want to pay to have hair coloured that was slightly too long in places only to have it cut off before styling.

The manager of the shop was quite grim, even when I suggested I go away and cut the offending bits of hair, made me feel like I was being completely unreasonable. No where on their huge posters advertising the deal was this extra charge mentioned. I could have understood it if my hair was way past my shoulders, but it just wasn't.

I left, I haven't been back.

I was actually quite upset when I got home. Still haven't had my hair cut (money is a bit short) and feel I look awful still. I appreciate the salon just wanted to make an extra tenner, but I felt conned. Its had quite an impact.

Buzzybee90

sidefx wrote: »

Why don't you just go to your partners barber?

I'm sure he can trim long hair too.

Someone might see me?

sidefx

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

Someone might see me?

So??

Think of the saving :money::money::money:

jaylee3

CruisingSaver wrote: »

Wow! How rude is that?! Whilst what I pay is the lower end of your supposed pretentiousness scale I don't consider it to be particularly OTT in terms of cost.


There's nowhere in my area that would charge anything near as low as £7.50 or £12 for a ladies cut and blow (and I live up North too!). In fact at such a low price I'd be questioning the qualifications and skill of the person doing the cut!

Oh dear!!!! :rotfl: I rest my case.

Sorry to disappoint you luv, but your OTT priced haircuts are done by hairdressers with EXACTLY the same qualifications and skills as the ones who charge a THIRD of what you pay!

You are very naive if you believe any different. You are being royally ripped off.

End of.

Nuff said.

:cool:

Buzzybee90

sidefx wrote: »

So??

Think of the saving :money::money::money:

No saving because I only get my hair cut really, really infrequently (oops).

bluelass

I pay £10 every two months to have my ends trimmed and layers recut which is roughly a inch removed altogether I colour my hair also every 8 weeks with a shop bought colour by garnier. I recall an aunt giving me a gift voucher for vidal Sassoon for my 18 birthday almost 19 years on it only seems like it was yesterday sigh. I went to a local Sassoon salon in Manchester city centre and had my then very long hair trimmed no wash and blow etc just a trim and I was offered a drink and asked for a cup of tea. My voucher was the value of £40 this was 1996 and when I got to the till and handed my voucher over i was told it came to £50 so i handed £10 of my own money over. Even then posh big name salons were charging well over odds for what wasn't even an inch off the cup of tea wasn't complimentary and i wonder how much they charge these days? Yes it was a swanky salon but my hair looked and felt no different to when i had it done at my usual hair dressers.