Hair cut and colour now exceeds what I earn in a day. Absolutely fed up.

I agree with you.

I now colour my own hair because of the cost but also because I did not think that the colouring I was getting at a salon for an all over colour was any better than what I could do at home!

Ultimately businesses who charge silly prices will just keep losing clients.

Regardless of their overheads or the relative imbalance in pensions, the increased costs are pricing out more and more of the market. Good pensions don’t give spare cash now. No one is winning and it’s a game of last man standing. We will see more and more people with dodgy teeth, home cut/dyed hair and spectacles fixed with plasters, just like the 1970s. I would guess there will be a number of non-essential service providers who will close as they lose the next income band of customers.

Hi Op,

sorry I haven’t read the full thread, not sure if this has been suggested. An option could be to take up private work as a nurse to increase your hours? This would be better paid then the NHS or you could do beauty treatments from your home for example Botox etc. More people would likely come to you than a beautician as you are a nurse.

Just cancelled mine, £90 for all over brown. Going to have to do it myself

They will still have to pay for products, equipment, an accountant, their own pensions, money for sick days, holidays etc.

I alternate ‘highlights’ appointments with ‘just the roots coloured’ appointments and that makes it a bit cheaper. It works for my colouring. Could that be an option for you?

If your contract states that you are community based not office/equivalent based then your employer cannot reasonably deduct your home/office/home mileage from your claim, and yo should clarify that with HR and your manager. If you're claiming the 59p per mile you may be taxed on the amount over HMRC max.

Exactly.

DS2 and DDIL are both band 6 nurses, DS2 will be starting a band 7 job after Christmas, and they are absolutely not on the breadline. DDIL works part time, two 12 hour shifts a week plus one Sunday a month. DS2 does full time, he does do quite a few nights. They own their own home, not in a particularly cheap area of the country, don’t forego haircuts or new clothes. DGS has a nice little life too.

I do hate threads like this, though. People always grumble about the price of haircuts and nails etc but the women, and it is mainly women, who are doing these jobs are not doing them as a hobby. They still have overheads, families to feeds, houses to pay for and cars to run. You don’t have to go, no one is forcing you to.

I go to a local salon, full head foils with a cut and blow dry is £60. I would expect a more expensive salon to be £110. £170 seems an awful lot

A few women I know who have family outside the south east will have their hair done while visiting. Half the price and usually a better job.

which home colours have you tried ?

Just repeating this.

I have huge respect for those working in the NHS, but the OP is not on a pittance. 3k take home a month is decent money.

€50 here in France cut & colour to my medium length greying hair. Lovely English lady in her home salon. I just don’t have time to get there this week 😢
I’m back to the UK next week and will be paying about £240 to my UK salon based hairdresser. Yes, the colour(s) are slightly better, but £200 better? UK has more expenses involved, but it’s literally 5 x more expensive and I can’t justify it any longer.
It may be my last UK cut & colour.

With any service there will be a price point over which people will not pay. It can depend on location, how good you are, how nice where you work is, the ambience.
If hairdressers get enough custom and can charge around £150 upwards for a highlight and cut and blow dry they will continue to do so. They will charge as much as they can.
If people don't pay it, they have to drop their prices if they want the custom.

This is one of the reasons I also didn't replace the cleaner when she left - just can't justify the cost anymore and I'd rather do it myself.

@Monty34 No. Most are not working like this at all! The standard hairdresser has overheads. The renting a chair has costs! Plus the self employed have no pension at all unless they pay 100% of the contributions. Rental prices include heat, water, council tax, cleaning, etc. The premises have costs, and they are high!

I go to a salon about six miles outside the city and pay £120 for cut and highlights. I don’t pay for blow dry though.

Mine is £85ish for full head colour, cut and blow dryer. I have lots of hair and will take 3-4 tubes of colour which are £10ish each. It takes 2.5 hours too. This is a fairly standard amount to pay around me. It’s sounds like the labour part of yours is 3-4* as expensive. Maybe time for a new hairdressser? We live in an affluent ish part of Yorkshire.

I'm having full head highlights today, £80 and a free cut thrown in if I want it. Hair dresser rents a chair in a salon.

You could go to a college. Mr Monkey started getting his hair and beard done for free at a barbers training college when he was out of work but continued to go by choice. They are supervised by a teacher so no horrors, but it does take longer than the usual appointment.

Most hairdressers are self employed and rent out the space. So no staff to pay. No NI contributions. Just rent ( which will no doubt be included in the space rental costs) tax and electricity and so on.

Exactly! Im in the UK and I've found a mobile hairdresser who is very good and who sometimes takes clients in at two different salons which look lovely and cozy etc plus the price you pay (at the salon) is exactly the same as when she comes to your house. I've had a haircut and colour for 60 pounds. And yes, I'm in London. For an ombré it would be around 80 pounds without a cut. For highlights similar. Same results as paying £150 + at salons my friends go to!

It’s well worth doing some legwork, as they’ll some excellent well trained hairdressers that work from home. Look them up in your local area.

I had mine done on Tuesday cut and colour with highlights , in a salon . I'm in Cumbria and was £65 .

To you maybe.