Why do women pay so much for haircuts

OP asks a question. Is pretty much unanimously told people disagree with her because (and they list their very valid reasons)….

OP continues to argue that they’re wrong. Bonkers!

As it happens I pay £23 for a cut and blow dry every 6/7 weeks. My son and husband pay £14 for a cut every 3 weeks so they work out roughly the same cost.

Well, we interpret that post differently.

It had the same sneery undertone as your posts.

DIY haircuts need to remain firmly in 2020. As do diy dog grooms etc etc

Neither my DS or miniature poodle have ever really forgiven me for my attempts back then

I meant you, you said women are brainwashed...

Well yes a short back and sides and shaving a beard is not the same as a balayage, but there is some cross over for women with masculine styles and men with feminine styles.

If I'm going to sit in a salon and get one to one attention for 3 hours, then I'll expect to pay about £100. It really isn't a rip off. It's all about choice, I work hard for my family and deserve to be able to treat myself to a decent haircut. I'm sure it could cut and colour it myself if i spent enough time training myself, but prefer to let a professional do the job whilst I relax.

Yes, but if a woman wants a cut like a man she can ask for that. Some hairdressers will do it like that. As children, we went to the barber's so that's also an option if the barber agrees.

Fun fact - Male barbering and female hair cutting are actually different skills with separate training.

"I think there's a cultural idea of visits to the hairdressers' being a self-care thing, with long sit downs in comfortable chairs, scalp massage as well as a hair wash, glass of bubbly (or at the very least a cuppa) and a BFF-style chat with the hairdresser. And it wouldn't feel luxurious if it was cheap."

Oh no. I hate the whole experience, but I'm still VERY happy to pay for it because I think the way my hair looks is very important. I don't bother with professional nails or anything else similar, but your hair frames your face.

If money was very short, I'd ask for a quick dry trim like some men get at the barber's and doing it myself would be last resort.

Women's hairstyles tend to be more complicated.

Why are you insulting any woman who pays to get their haircut brainwashed? Don't you think they can make informed decisions about how they spend their own money?

@Moontan presumably you apply the idea that marketing companies have fooled people into paying for things they could do themselves to other areas? What other areas?

I glanced at one of our town's hairdressers' price list yesterday. They have lower prices for men than for women and I'm aware that most if not all others do this, too. And it's not because men tend to have short hair and women long - the women's prices are scaled for length of hair.

HOW do hairdressers get away with this?

I cut my own hair when I was a teenager.

Now I'm an adult one of the luxuries of having an adult salary is having someone else do it for me. It's long, thick and curly and looks so much better when my stylist who specialises in curly hair cuts it.

I also pay a cleaner even though I'm quite capable of cleaning myself, and a waxer even though I could wax myself. All of the above make my life easier and mean a better job than I could do gets done. I'm ok with that.

This 100%

Why are you calling women ridiculous for spending their money how they like?

And not all women have long hair. So you technique doesn't apply to all of us.

I pay 20 but it was 25 last time for a wet cut twice a day. I think that's a bargain and the hairdresser is skilled cutter. We've a training college near by and I have had my hair cut for free although I have her a Easter egg as it was Easter and I had one in my bag. There's always requests near me for every type of haircut you ever need for the college

Well good for you, but that's just one style.

Makes me laugh when people say this. As if anyone would post a photo of themselves on here!

And what if your hair looks lovely (which I'm sure it does.) What then? Such a pointless thing to say! Of course the OP's hair is going to look OK. No-one is going to go through life looking like they had a fight with the lawnmower!

I pay £97 for my haircut. I have been going to him for nearly thirty years and he is amazing. I have a disfigurement (horrible word) which made it awful and embarrassing to go to hairdressers from a child to when I found him, and he has always worked around it and even made ways for it to almost show and me not actually care.
People tut and look appalled when I mention his but I couldn't give a monkeys! Sometimes it's a bit of a financial stretch, but it's a non negotiable expense for my mental health to be honest

£88 every 8 weeks including a half head of foils. Worth it to me. I have no other professional treatments

Yes, there has been a weird influx of posts like this recently. I thought school had re-started already