AIBU that a haircut shouldn't cost £60!?

This thread makes me feel so incredibly grateful for all my clients who are happy to pay me what I am worth.

Who come to me in my clean private studio that I keep really peaceful and nice for them at a continually rising cost.

Who appreciate my instinct and (constantly updated) skill in tailoring haircuts and colours for them, because I have decades of experience and a love for making people feel listened to, comfortable and beautiful.

Hairdressing is a skill that requires a lot of interpersonal intelligence amongst many other things that people don’t realise. I work very hard to make my clients happy and that is something many people find valuable, thankfully!

So become a cleaner or hairdresser then

I pay €87 for a curl cut, finally found a hairdresser I trust. She's worth every penny.

For that she's actively cutting my hair for 45 minutes and I get to sit in the salon for an additional 45 minutes whilst my hair dries under a heat lamp.

I could go to the salon in the next village over and pay less than half the price, but I have never left there feeling good about my hair. You get what you pay for.

£5 at my local training salon for CBD

That really annoys me. DH used to have a flat top years ago, which isn't the easiest style to do. It was cheaper for him than it was for me to get my ends trimmed, despite the fact it took longer to do his than mine.

Shouldn't be allowed.

£30 for me for wash cut and blow dry with great hairdresser local salon east anglia. Lots of great comments about my hair. Visit every 2 months.

Also outskirts of London. I pay £55. I could go to a cheaper salon or get a mobile hairdresser but I really like the haircut this particular woman does for me.

It’s ridiculous isn’t it. My salary hasn’t doubled in the last 10 years. But my cleaner’s & my hairdresser’s have.

I don’t think £60 is extortionate to be honest.

Last time I went to a Rush I was quoted £250 for a top section highlights reapplication and trim. Needless to say I didn’t pay.

I’m in London admittedly but £60 for a decent haircut sounds ok to me.

Rent, business rates, employers pension contributions, heating, air conditioning, maintenance of appliances, shampoo, lighting, hot water, clean towels, cleaning, payment machines, conditioner, staff wages, staff bonus, NI costs and most important of all - the skill of the hairdresser. It all costs.

The price of stock and utilities are sky high so the increase is understandable.

A lot people who would have a regular hairdressers appointment can't afford the increased prices.

go for it.
Proper hairdressing scissors are cheap actually so I have some of those.
I've been doing my own , husband's and 3 boys' for a few years now.

pros:
miles cheaper/ free
more convenient- no waiting, making appointments, getting to hairdressers
no small talk!!
better haircuts. I watched a few you tube videos and it's actually really easy. I get far better results than I ever did at a hairdressers

cons;
Having to sweep the kitchen floor afterwards
always having a slight worry that I'll mess it up but that's never happened yet

Last time I came to the UK I thought I'd wait and get my haircut in the UK as its bound to be cheaper than Finland. I was wrong
Hairdressers charge 30-40 euros for a wash, cut and blow dry over here and the local hairdressing school charges 10-15 euros and includes a head massage! But that's only during working hours so alas I cannot take advantage of this any more.

I live in a city north of London and mine costs the same for a restyle but still £50 just for a c&bd. I can cope with rises, their costs have gone up too. But it's gone up by at least 80% in 5 years which seems crazy. I'm going to see if I can find a mobile hairdresser who doesn't have the overheads, but will need to find recommendations.

for a cut?!!

In South Yorkshire, some salons in big cities near us charge more but I live in a town with a gazillion hairdressers so they are all fairly competitive

It sounds similar to where I am.

It's like lots of things....it depends what you value. Almost irrespective of cost there are some people who don't care about their hair and cut it at home/don't get it cut at all. On the opposite end of the scale there are others who love the experience and place value on a good haircut/might see it as an essential thing. I don't think either is wrong.

I'm somewhere in the middle...I don't enjoy the experience of going but I want the basics done by someone who knows what they are doing. I don't want it washed or want to pay the cost of a blow dry. I have a hairdresser who comes to the house. She's in and out in 20 mins and charges less than half the OP but I give a big tip because a quick, convenient hair cut is what equates to value for me.

Thankyou !

I think Batchcookbabe must have been cheated on by a hairdresser.

I don't begrudge what I pay for my hairdresser, she's entitled to earn a wage just as I am. I go slightly less often if I'm a bit skint but I don't expect her to earn less just because I have some bills to pay - a good haircut is a luxury.

Its really unfair, historically folk have always looked down on hairdressers, schools discourage it, parents are horrified, and its seen as something you do if you are dim.
and yes, tradesmen charge a fortune but that is ok
Why is that ?
If you don’t want to pay it then fine, do it yourself , but saying we are too expensive is inaccurate, you just dont want to pay it….

We had a guy come in and do one to one training recently and he charges £1350 for the day
Very expensive, but he is fab and i pay it because it is worth it. He has been to us 3 times now

lots of posters are all just used to lower prices , and don't want to pay any more
And the competitive underpaying is ludicrous
“ I pay £60 for a colour and cut ect…
i would go out of business if i charged that , and actually i wouldn't waste my time , tubes of colour alone are £12 each

You see threads on here all the time telling women to retrain and earn more , yet here we are having to defend why we want to earn more ? Why is that ?
You don't mean us do you ? All the comments from people saying they pay peanuts essentially mean its acceptable to you that we earn peanuts ?

I don't need to retrain to earn more because i can earn well doing hair

I love the fact that we charge enough that i can pay my staff well , and that i can go travelling regularly .
My biggest earning stylist regularly comes out with £800 a week

Ps , i forgot on my expenses list the rent . The biggest cost of all £2800 per month plus VAT .£40,000 per year

Where are you? I'm on London outskirts too and here it goes from between £60 - absolute cheapest - to well over £100 just for cut and blow dry, no colour.
I've started asking for cuts I know will grow out well and just going twice a year.

Cut and blow dry with salon owner, £75, I go every 11 weeks and think it's money well spent.

I was paying £35 a few years ago but it kept increasing to £65 for a wash, cut, blow dry. After hunting around I’ve recently found an excellent hairdresser who does a dry cut for £26. I’m in and out very quickly but still have a coffee.

Why is it people will always bash skilled trades like hair for charging what they are worth?
a salon will have a lot of overheads,gas electric insurance stock staff costs all the usual annual leave sick leave licences insurances software card machine fees ,the same as cafes and most retail shops.
people always have this assumption hair dressers aren’t worth much in terms of what they do but nobody bats an eyelid at paying £85-£100 an hour for a skilled electrician or plasterer.
it’s no different is it.

I haven't had my highlights done in a year. I checked out prices earlier, they've nearly doubled from 89 to 160 on.a Wednesday deal.