To think hairdressers are CF?

[AuntyBess]

Passing on PPE charge to customers.

Have been going 30 years to this chain.

In the last 10 since going grey, I've visited every 17 days damn you fast growing hair currently £58 per visit. Then hair cut every 3 months at approx another £50.

AIBU to think they should absorb this cost?

@MUM2019

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I cbfa to get my laptop out, but assure you I tried to tag you to reply to your discourse.

HTH

The PPE charge is £6.50 per visit at my salon. It looks like the charges have gone up a bit too.
I have survived since February without a visit to a salon so I'm planning on just having 3" off on my next visit rather than 1"

I have grown out my highlights onto balayage last year so I can also do box dyes at home.

You have to cut your cloth to your means OP. If the extra charge is too much just work out how many extra days you need to space your apps out?

Personally it's not so much the extra cost for me but the thought of regional multiple small lockdown. I need more sustainable low maintenance hair. I have got V lazy

And it's not because I'm abbrevating your name, I know what I'm doing, I've been around a while. The system appears not to like all capitals.

And it's not because I'm abbrevating your name, I know what I'm doing, I've been around a while. The system appears not to like all capitals.

System appears to be an arse atm

Abbreviating

OP I think the issue is not the hairdressers but your own business approach. From reading this thread it’s clear customers are willing to incur a temporary uplift in the price of services due to Covid. You shouldn’t be adsorbing all the cost.

For how much better I feel now my hideous roots have been done and the improvement in my self esteem - I view the extra cost of today’s appointment as a good investment

How are people getting roots done today? A patch test has to be done when you havent had a colour applied for a long time?

No you don't need a patch test if it's a few months

Hairdressers HAVE to use the ppe - otherwise they would be closed down

The barbers i walked past today just after 5 seemed to be getting away with not doing so.

@AuntyBess yea course you did also great way to avoid the subject matter all together when someone has a very valid point..didn't deny that you'd made an appointment did you love. What exactly did you help..apart from yourself to an entitled and snobby attitude..and stop ranting about people doing their job helping you or don't go to them simple. Have a lovely day!!

As for embracing grey - think it depends what way your hair goes with the grey. My Nanna went stunning white and I have friends who naturally have gone grey early and that very bang on trend silver colour. Some of us, like me, just go mousy yuk and my hair is really fine and lank and stringy and bleaching it actually makes the texture of it much more manageable to handle. It knocks my hair’s delinquency down into mild rebellion.

Some women are lucky to go stunning shades of grey - not everyone is. I would probably just go dirty yellowy grey and I don’t fancy that.

Glad for the concern over patch tests- head fine, hairdresser fine and I normally get the same mix used every 4 weeks diligently. You worry about you and I will worry about me.

My hairdresser has an £8 surcharge at the moment

Mine isn't charging for PPE and going to be using washable items. Won't be washing hair, (I never have it washed anyway)

The owner is concerned about the increase in plastic waste, so doing all she can to avoid this.

If there had been a charge, so be it. I've saved by not having my hair done for months. I am not going until August though, I could have gone a little earlier, but my hair is through the annoying length stage, so I'm happy to wait and let someone else go earlier.

I’m greyish white on top and in front and dark brown everywhere else so I colour. I’d love to be white or silver all over.

@DominaShantotto totally agree! I am 🙄 at people who say embrace the grey. Said to me again yesterday by someone who has brown hair, with occasional full grey strands running through. I’m 5 years younger than her, but where’s she’s maybe 2% grey (those silver strands) I am about 90% grey. Which means growing out my colour means a solid badger stripe of grey gradually extending down the length of my hair. I don’t suit short hair (nor in fact do I want it anyway). So can’t fast track that badger stripe. It looks fucking ridiculous.

Go every 20 days- that'll teach them!

There’s no way I’m embracing the grey either but when I had to box dye my naturally dark brown hair every 3 weeks due to the grey I just went blonde. Takes a bit of getting used to but so much easier in terms of maintenance. No plans to embrace the grey for the foreseeable future and if that makes me a crap woman and feminist so be it!

I'll probably be flamed for this but here goes- I dont think grey is ever flattering on anyone. At all.

I havent seen a single person who I thought looked better grey- it always ages people immensely and is a difficult shade to pull off next to any skin tone. Firstly, because most people dont go a lovely silver colour- they go salt and pepper and the whiter strands go wiry and unmanageable. If you have very long hair, going grey makes it look witch like and its deeply unflattering. I think it easily adds 15 years onto someone's age and you'll have to prise the hair dye out of my cold dead hands before I go grey by choice.

Let the flames commence!

I have no problem paying it. It’s £3 at my salon.

@AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter

I'll probably be flamed for this but here goes- I dont think grey is ever flattering on anyone. At all.

I havent seen a single person who I thought looked better grey- it always ages people immensely and is a difficult shade to pull off next to any skin tone. Firstly, because most people dont go a lovely silver colour- they go salt and pepper and the whiter strands go wiry and unmanageable. If you have very long hair, going grey makes it look witch like and its deeply unflattering. I think it easily adds 15 years onto someone's age and you'll have to prise the hair dye out of my cold dead hands before I go grey by choice.

Let the flames commence!

A picture is worth 1000 words.

In other words, bollocks.

I didnt expect everyone to agree with it!

[quote MUM2019MARVEL]@AuntyBess yea course you did also great way to avoid the subject matter all together when someone has a very valid point..didn't deny that you'd made an appointment did you love. What exactly did you help..apart from yourself to an entitled and snobby attitude..and stop ranting about people doing their job helping you or don't go to them simple. Have a lovely day!! [/quote]
I haven't ranted once.

I don't see any valid points.

All I see it unnecessary name calling and assumptions.

@AuntyBess yet again..you didn't tag me in the post. I wonder why when you tagged me in the last one no valid points.. *except the fact you haven't refuted you have made an appointment.
*That you are putting all 'CF' hairdressers in a box with a blanket statement.
*Some/most salons aren't even charging for the PPE and have provided their own.
*Not an unnecessary name call..my genuine opinion on someone who would (in this climate) complain about the people who service you and do the work you don't want to do..for protecting themselves and charging you a miniscule percentage of what you say you pay every 17days! Absolutely fantastic we have people like you in this world.

Yes I have made an appt. For late next week, not the first day beserker that you're suggesting.

And I was only asking if MY hairdressers were CF not a class of hairdressers,

If you'd read post OP posts of mine, I'd reviewed my thoughts and reiterated many times that I'd been irked by the way it was presented to me and realised that it was not unreasonable.

You continuing to rant and mane call at me was unnecessary after my evolution on the thread.

I hope you can understand this and see that I'm neither entitled or snobby.

I also reiterate that my app will NOT let me tag you by giving your name as suggested when I @ you. I have no idea why, a glitch, perhaps, but out of my control. I'll apologise regarding my inability to reply to you in your preferred manner.

I wish you well and safety in your occupation, which will be stressful and strange for the future. Take care