Opinion on hairdresser charges

purpleshoes_2

If you look around you can get decent deals on groupon, I used to get my hair coloured with groupon deals in the summer when the college was closed. The most I paid was £22 for a cut and highlights and it was only that one time a salon tried to charge me more because I have long hair.

I know people in London who only get colours done through groupon. You can pay silly money anywhere. I had a friend who was loaded and she got her hair cut and coloured at an expensive salon in Glasgow, this was about 10 years ago, she paid £200 then, hair looked great but not a chance would I pay £200 for a hair colour. Its just as well I don't have much money really and I'm never going to have that problem.

At the moment my hair colour comes from superdrug 3 quid a box and when I darkened my hair, a friend couldn't believe that I had done it myself and the results were as good as they were.

To be honest, I also got fed up sitting in the hairdressers chair for hours, there's not a lot relaxing about getting a hair colour done with foils even if the end result looks good, with my hair length anyway.

KxMx

I pay £24 in a graduate salon. Wasn't charged extra when I had a fringe cut last year.

You have the posh stylists downstairs and the graduates upstairs. No difference in treatment at reception. Last couple of times i've had mine done downstairs with the posh plush vibrating chairs I go 3-4 times a year.



There are a few places where you can get it cheaper, but most are much more expensive.

Worry_Wart

I pay £100 for a cut, colour and finish, and I live in the north, but I have a massive mane of curly hair and I only go every six months so my hairdresser has to re-tackle it from scratch every time. I went to another salon for a change recently, and had the same treatment for £70, but the cut was much worse, none of my greys stayed dyed, and she didn't really consult me at all. I quite happily went back to paying £100 for a job well done with someone who understands my hair and my lifestyle (low maintenance being key!).

BigAunty

I didn't know there was such a thing as a trim or a restyle that warranted different levels of charges. This thread is an education for me.

I used to pay about £20 for a wash, cut and blow dry (well, a dry-off, really, as I had having my hair blow dried and don't use a hairdryer in the house). I liked the salon but found a scruffy place down the road who did it for a tenner. Finally, I bought some scissors and followed some online tutorials to do a simple trim.

Hopefully it doesn't look like I cut my own hair.

comeandgo

My husband and I were at the hairdresser this weekend, he has his usual trim, I had cut and colour and he had three pounds change from £100.

j.e.j.

Colour does cost a lot if you're going to a salon to get it done but a haircut or trim shouldn't cost that much.

Soleil_lune

Jagraf wrote: »

I t might be just me, but I resent paying an extra £50 for someone to use up my time by sitting at eye level fluffing up my hair, pouting in the mirror, making me lie down for a massage and pretending to be a life coach / therapist.

I personally would rather just get my hair cut and spend the rest on a meal and a bottle of wine with my mates.

purpleshoes wrote: »

At the moment my hair colour comes from superdrug 3 quid a box and when I darkened my hair, a friend couldn't believe that I had done it myself and the results were as good as they were.

To be honest, I also got fed up sitting in the hairdressers chair for hours, there's not a lot relaxing about getting a hair colour done with foils even if the end result looks good, with my hair length anyway.

BigAunty wrote: »

I didn't know there was such a thing as a trim or a restyle that warranted different levels of charges. This thread is an education for me.

I used to pay about £20 for a wash, cut and blow dry (well, a dry-off, really, as I had having my hair blow dried and don't use a hairdryer in the house). I liked the salon but found a scruffy place down the road who did it for a tenner. Finally, I bought some scissors and followed some online tutorials to do a simple trim.

Hopefully it doesn't look like I cut my own hair.

Have to echo these posts. I go to the hairdressers, (which is about 3 times a year,) to have a haircut; not to have a massage, and backrub, and flashy lattes, and suchlike. I also don't enjoy making pointless conversation with someone I don't know about nothing, for 1-3 hours. Therefore, although I go to the hairdressers 3 times a year for a bit of a restyle or to have the layers chopped, I trim it myself in between visits. It looks fine. And like Purple Shoes, I also colour my own hair too, and it looks exactly the same as when I used to go and get it done at the hairdressers.

In addition, I would not expect to pay more than £14-£16 for a trim or £20/21 for a restyle and think that anymore than that is over-reaching. As I said earlier, if people want to pay that, then that is up to them, but I wouldn't, and I don't believe that Pablo the 'senior stylist' at flash harry's salon is any better than Julie in the market town hairdressers. I don't understand why people believe that. It's up to them if they want to pay megabucks, (and as I said earlier nobody should judge them for doing so,) but I do think that implying that people who charge lesser prices are less qualified and less capable is a bit rude.

I think that more and more people are going for doing many things themselves, rather than pay through the nose for things. Cutting and colouring one's own hair is one of those things. A £5 home colour kit does does the same job as the hairdresser does, when she charges you £40.

Each to their own.

CruisingSaver

I live on the outskirts of a market town in the North and there is nowhere in the town that does a ladies cut and blow at anywhere near some of the low prices quoted in this thread.


I'd never even heard of Supercuts until it was mentioned in this thread so googled it and as I suspected there isn't one within a reasonable travelling distance from where I live.


Oh and to clarify I never said those who charge £7.50 to cut hair are less qualified or skilled. I said I would question their level of qualification and skill - totally different to what has been commented on! If people can get a perfectly competent haircut for £7.50 and be happy with the result, then brilliant, however it isn't something that I would be comfortable with due to my hair type.


Personally, I would expect people who have invested time and money in obtaining additional skills and qualifications to charge more, and not just hairdressers either!

pimento

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 ?

My cut and colour is £97. This is in Essex.

I have it done every seven or eight weeks.

purpleshoes_2

CruisingSaver wrote: »

I live on the outskirts of a market town in the North and there is nowhere in the town that does a ladies cut and blow at anywhere near some of the low prices quoted in this thread.


I'd never even heard of Supercuts until it was mentioned in this thread so googled it and as I suspected there isn't one within a reasonable travelling distance from where I live.


Oh and to clarify I never said those who charge £7.50 to cut hair are less qualified or skilled. I said I would question their level of qualification and skill - totally different to what has been commented on! If people can get a perfectly competent haircut for £7.50 and be happy with the result, then brilliant, however it isn't something that I would be comfortable with due to my hair type.


Personally, I would expect people who have invested time and money in obtaining additional skills and qualifications to charge more, and not just hairdressers either!

Are there any local colleges or training salons near you. The reason I ended up going to a training salon was because my friend had a haircut and it looked fab and when I asked her where she got it done she told me and told me it only cost her £7.

I think when it comes to charging more depending on your qualifications you still need to take into account what people can afford. I work in the fitness industry and I'm very well qualified compare to some people, less than others, but I charge more or less according to what the local going rate is.

Some people simply can't afford a lot of money to shell out, whether it be a haircut or a fitness class. Instructors who live in London charge 2 or 3 times what I do and people pay it, you'd struggle to get folk to pay that around here (west of scotland).