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Chandelier. wrote: »In regards to hair appointments I usually pay around £45 for a cut and colour but I stretch it out as long as possible. I've had my hair coloured in a way that as it grows out it doesn't look too bad, it kind of blends in. I think between my last appointment and one before it was around 5 months haha! Im growing my hair back long after having it all cut off when I went through a crisis point in my life. I wanted to feel different. I'm now glad its growing back.
mine went thin with stress plus age, used to have the thickest hair, very dark and shiny. Now it shows pink scalp from time to time but is still glossy, although silver. Eating more protein is key as we get older0 -
I have a a Jaime Lee Curtis cut, I love it and suit it so I don't change it. My daughter just finished 3rd year in hairdressing at college and her Polish pal lets us use her salon anytime I want cut or coloured, It's very handy
I just need the strength back in the legs to get the bus down there..
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Kittie my hair used to be the same, very thick and untameable however over recent years it's thinned out which makes me sad. Probably due to all the stress over recent years, it hasn't been easy but I'm getting thereChandelier.
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I get my hair cut every 6 months and we pay £20 for me and my husband. £4 of that is a tip! Pretty good value and she comes to my house. She has been cutting our hair for about 10 years now.Seems odd deciding this after joining this thread but I do think it is a need and not a want! I've more or less decided to get a cleaner. Not very :money: and will involve a bit of budget tweaking but I'm struggling to keep on top of the heavier chores. I used a local company for a deep clean before so I'm going to see if they can do a regular slot for me. I won't need it every week so once or twice a month should be enough to cover the bits I can't do.
I would get a cleaner if we didn't have two annoying yappy dogs. I used to have one and it was amazing. It is something that I definitely think is worth the money.:)0 -
I used to be a cleaner, I really enjoyed it. When we first moved here there were no jobs at all to be had, and I got very bored. I had a wee Yamaha motorbike then, so I started up as a self-employed cleaner/housekeeper and soon had loads of work - mainly in the outlying farmhouses where it was hard to get reliable help. I would clean one house, sit down and have dinner, then move onto the next one. Most houses were unlocked but empty as the lady would be out on the farm or at the horses. It suited me as I like my own company, and I hate bosses breathing down my neck or any sort of pressure. I did hours and days to suit my youngest who was then still in primary.0
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My Mum is a hairdresser, so I've barely paid for my hair done all my life (odd occasion when she's been away or ill). I don't pay for kids either and DH has his done for free by a neighbour (cos he doesn't have much hair and wants a 'barber' cut whereas my Mum more gives him a 'hairdresser version' if that makes any sense
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Until last year when she broke her hip and eventually retired (at 72) she was still working as a mobile hairdresser and I know she charged far less than many salons. She even tuts about the prices charged by the hairdresser based at the care home where my Nan is.
I don't know if looking for a mobile hairdresser is an option for you kittie?0 -
We used to have a mobile hairdresser, then she set up in her own home and became a friend. It was too difficult to finish with her when I became fed up of her hair styling ways and the fact that her little boy was a big distraction while she was cutting. The only way I got to leave was when we moved house. Actually, I was thinking today that really I am getting what I paid for, she did a fab job again and I look like a new woman. I think I will just have to suck the cost up but I have extended by one week0
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I think getting your hair done so you are happy with it is money well spent even if you do spend a fair bit - it's such a morale booster:D
I'm lucky that despite health/being that age my hair is still as thick as ever. Though I suspect it's genetics as my Mum and both my Grans had no hair thinning either.
I get a dry cut these days £20 (inc tip) does me 3-4 months. My hairdresser knows my unruly hair really well and it gets chopped to a tapered chin length bob which grows out to just above shoulder length before it needs chopped again. As a once red head my colour has faded but I've not coloured it for nearly 10 years and most folk think it's streaked/low lighted as although I've a lot of grey the auburn has faded to a light copper. Apparently (according to my hairdresser) I'd pay a fortune to have it replicated:).0 -
Your very lucky caronc, I went salt and pepper from strawberry blonde, currently sporting the worzel gummidge look been meaning to get to the hairdresser for about 3months, never enough hours in the day off late.
My eyebrows and lashes annoy me most as they have lightened and thinner as I've gotten older now doesn't look as if I have any bottom lashes.
Looks like we will avoid the worse of the weather that's coming temps will bottom out but looks dry for the next week
We did a firewood cut just after Christmas it's been stack in the workshop lean to so needs to be restack in a round, I'm not making the same mistake of assuming we will not be here next winter which I did last year, if we're not then I will just have the good karma of starting the next folk off with a full woodshed, as firewood gotten so expensive to buy.
We have 60kg of coal left that should take us through winters last hurrah.0 -
Up here Tori most of the farm cottages are still coal fires and it's def "not done" to move out without leaving the fire all set and a wee pail of coal or logs at the ready. I've always appreciated that custom.0
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