£75 for a haircut!!

[mankycat]

last year DP had a chain of well known hairdressers turn up at his shop with a offer of having 3 treatments done for £45 so he brought it for me. Anyway it turns out that the young man who cut my hair was very good and I returned to him most of last summer.

I like my hair short so it needs alot of maintenance. Anyway I am expecting DC2 and I am 37 weeks pregnant and have done nothing with my hair for months and months had a trim & tidy up and a really cheap place but thats it cos money is tight.

I am desperate for a nice haircut cant afford a colour so I rung said hairdressers and I asked how much for "Just a hair cut" with this person and they said £75 I nearly fell off my chair!!! When my hair is short it needs cutting every 5 weeks I cant afford that kind of money. AIBU to think that is too much or am I just out of touch????

My favourite hairdresser charged £280 for my last full-head of highlights and cut. Obviously that's ridiculous so I tend to go to one that charges just over £100 for half-head and cut.

£75 doesn't sound ridiculous at all.

Caonima I have to disagree, dh treated me to a posh salon once for my birthday, it cost a fortune but it was a treat, except that they didn't listen to what I said and I left with a hideous style I looked ridiculous with and took months to put right, spending more doesn't always mean better.

Agree with Cao, you get what you pay for (well, most of the time, unless you get lucky/unlucky). IME cheap haircuts look good for about 10 minutes, if they ever look good at all. When I've paid more, its grown out really nicely, and lasted much, much longer. Generally I've found cheap haircuts are a false economy of a high order i.e. you look awful too . But then I've always spent money on hair (agree: the clothes you wear every day!) and not much on anything else...

Also, in more expensive Salons with a reputation - if the cut is awful I always ask for it to be re-done by someone else with more experience, or I refuse to pay (did that at Vidal's once).

It is quite expensive - but it depends on where in the UK you are ?

In Edinburgh senior stylists cost about 60 quid across all the big salons. Down here in London town it is much much more... so 75 quid would seem to be about right.

Cao - is that pronounced 'Tsao Ni Ma', by the way? (Apologies for hijack, OP.)

My haircut costs me £80. It is my only beauty extravagance.

About 15 years ago I was quoted £45 for trimming an inch off my waist length hair. This was in a salon in a small town in the West Country. The salon was called [name] of London.

When I queried it I was told that the salon provided 'London standards of service'. Trouble was I didn't earn London wages, so went elsewhere and had it done for £6.

Now my hair is short and until recently was very well cut and blow dried at a salon very close to my house for £22 a go. Now she's moved on and I have the hideous task of finding a new one :( Might try the barber in the same street or do it myself with my husband's Remington :o

Sounds normal to me

I normally pay about £90 for colour (foils) and cut and finish.

My friend that is a hairdresser at Toni and Guy used to do my hair for me at home it was £30 for the same as above!

I go to headmasters, with a 25% off card for mon-fri. Even so it is around £100 for trim plus colour (sw london). They do something called 'standby appointments' for much cheaper, you call them first thing in the morning and if they have slots available you get a very cheap cut (DH does this,its £18)

I once paid £450 for nicky clarke to make a hash of it cut it.

75 seems a lot to me. I wonder what bruce willis et al pay.