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Hairdressers prices

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Derrymare · 14/08/2022 19:46

I've stopped going to my hairdresser as she charges me £22 to have snippets off my ends and wants £140 for highlights.
Does anyone else think this is expensive.

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Carreterra · 14/08/2022 22:03

I am in the north west of England, and pay £50 for a cut & half head of foils, £60 for a full head. Another hairdresser just 6 miles away charges £75 and £85 for the same !

Misty84 · 14/08/2022 22:07

I live in Greater London and was being charged £65 for a wash, trim and blow dry at my hairdressers house. Ended up switching to the salon opposite, it now costs me £38. Takes hardly any time to do my fine, shoulder length hair!

MoveOnTheCards · 14/08/2022 22:07

£280 for full head foils, olaplex and cut and blow. London salon and I’m happy to pay that. I’m there for about 3h and get a lovely result.

BEAM123 · 14/08/2022 22:08

£29 for a dry trim that takes 15 mins :-(, East Anglia

roxisolerenshaw · 14/08/2022 22:14

I pay £160 for highlights and a cut and blow dry.

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Derrymare · 14/08/2022 22:22

I've just been somewhere else for a trim and was charged just £10 for a dry trim. She said it's only the ends and no layering etc the £22 one was also just a dry trim.

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sellthesizzle · 14/08/2022 22:35

I'm also in the West Midlands and pay £130 for colour, cut and blow dry. Would be £50 for cut and blow dry.

hilariousnamehere · 14/08/2022 22:42

@Metabigot aw thank you for asking! Here are my last couple :) first one is at about a month's fade, washing every 2-3 days, second one is brand new and shiny before I left the salon. Happy hair!

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Elphame · 14/08/2022 22:43

£160 every 6 weeks for root dye and highlights, cut, undercut and blow dry.

Takes 3-4 hours depending on whether I need more highlights put in or just a toner. The blow dry takes the best part of 30 minutes alone.

South West

hilariousnamehere · 14/08/2022 22:44

(naturally a very dark brown which is why I'm so overexcited by proper vivid colour - I thought it was impossible till I met her!)

Elphame · 14/08/2022 22:47

@hilariousnamehere

Looks amazing. I would so love that but I don't think my hair would take the bleaching required.

Mine's not quite so long but is too dark to take that degree of colour change without bleaching it first.

Yeezytiger · 14/08/2022 22:48

Women's Hairdressing is massively over priced

MinglingFlamingo · 14/08/2022 22:48

My full head highlights, cut & blowdry last week was £105. Southwest

NorthernPud · 14/08/2022 22:51

That seems reasonable. In the North and I pay £60 for a cut and dry, and it was around £150 last time I had full head highlights, two years ago

hilariousnamehere · 14/08/2022 22:51

@Elphame thank you! I suspect that's why she charges what she does and I'm happy to pay, because my hair is very dark and somehow with bleaching still super soft and healthy. Although I only get it done about twice a year at most :) it's still magical to me that it's possible at all! You could try just a few streaks to see if the bleach would take? Mind you, I started out with a single streak and an inch of colour at the ends and now look - it's a slippery slope 😂😂

NorthernPud · 14/08/2022 22:52

The £150 included my cut

Sims400 · 14/08/2022 22:53

Na I think that’s pretty normal, the energy rates are going to fuck salons over if they don’t put up their rates.

Elphame · 14/08/2022 22:58

hilariousnamehere · 14/08/2022 22:51

@Elphame thank you! I suspect that's why she charges what she does and I'm happy to pay, because my hair is very dark and somehow with bleaching still super soft and healthy. Although I only get it done about twice a year at most :) it's still magical to me that it's possible at all! You could try just a few streaks to see if the bleach would take? Mind you, I started out with a single streak and an inch of colour at the ends and now look - it's a slippery slope 😂😂

I'm really going to have to work on the condition of mine before I can do that. It's very dry and even highlights are pushing it at the moment.

Maybe I should go for a rainbow pixie!

Judelawswife68 · 14/08/2022 23:01

About £100 give or take a fiver either way. That's for full highlights, toner and trim in SE London. She is worth every penny too as she gives me beautifully blonde hair in a shade that suits me.

No more leaving a salon pissed off and upset after being given ginger streaks.

SavingsThreads · 14/08/2022 23:01

I think that's cheap!!! And don't always assume the more you get 'thrown in' the better.

I pay £200 for half head and cut precisely because he is a good colourist and therefore doesn't use bleach to get my colour lighter. So no need for toner or olaplex.

Naturelover5 · 14/08/2022 23:01

I stopped going to the hairdressers after Christmas. I was spending 70 quid every 6-8 weeks for a tint, crazy money looking back & unsustainable for my bottom line.. I do my own roots now, cláirol root touch up, so simple to do, looks the same as before & only 5 quid a box!
Delighted with my savings, DH trims the back every so often, he has a steady hand, I have wavy hair so doesn't have to be too perfect😁

Boobsakimbo2 · 14/08/2022 23:03

Okay for the trim Expensive for the colour…

Allywill · 14/08/2022 23:17

Sims400 · 14/08/2022 22:53

Na I think that’s pretty normal, the energy rates are going to fuck salons over if they don’t put up their rates.

Energy rates are going to fuck us all over. If we have to find and extra 300 - 400 pound a month there will be no hairdressers for a lot of people. Anything that can be cut out (no pun intended) will be. Hairdressers, fortnightly cleaner, and gym membership are on my list of “non essentials” that if it came to it will have to go. Putting prices up to cover the energy rate increase ( when I’ve been told that my wage can’t go up as it would be “inflationary”) may prove the nail in their coffin especially if they are a non chain local salon

AppleBottomRats · 14/08/2022 23:19

I can’t even find anywhere here that will still do a trim/dry cut so I’ve just stopped going and do it myself. I’m not paying £50+ for a wash/dry I don’t even want.

Sims400 · 14/08/2022 23:26

Allywill · 14/08/2022 23:17

Energy rates are going to fuck us all over. If we have to find and extra 300 - 400 pound a month there will be no hairdressers for a lot of people. Anything that can be cut out (no pun intended) will be. Hairdressers, fortnightly cleaner, and gym membership are on my list of “non essentials” that if it came to it will have to go. Putting prices up to cover the energy rate increase ( when I’ve been told that my wage can’t go up as it would be “inflationary”) may prove the nail in their coffin especially if they are a non chain local salon

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I understand that but choice isn’t going to come into it really.