Is £40 a lot for cut and blow-dry at home?

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Hoping there are some mobile hairdressers out there, or clients of mobile hairdressers, who can advise as I'm really not sure what to think.

My elderly mother is more or less housebound and has a mobile hairdresser come to do her hair once a month. Her hair is very short. She has a wash/cut/blow dry, very simple, no styling products or anything. The hairdresser lives about 7 or 8 miles away I think, and I realise she has to factor petrol costs into her rates.

We're in the East Midlands.

She charges £40 for this and it just seems a bit steep to me considering she doesn't have the overheads of owning a salon. When I have my (long) hair cut and coloured at a salon it costs me in the region of £65, so £40 just for a cut and blow dry of very short hair seems a lot.

Am I out of touch? Perfectly happy to accept if I am, so hopefully no one will jump on me for asking this😄- I'm just asking because I'm wondering if we should shop around a bit or whether £40 is reasonable.

Thanks in advance.

She's usually here about 40 mins to trim all of our hair, as long as mine is ready washed. My kids just have a dry trim as their hair is straight.

I am in the East Midlands. My mobile hairdresser charges £28 for cut, blow dry and straightening, including hair products. That’s for a very good hairdresser who used to work at an expensive salon. My hair is longer than your mum‘s but not shoulder length.

I do wash my hair myself before she comes, so that might account for some of the difference.

I think that price is ok . I pay £45 for a cut and blow at a local salon . I guess the mobile hairdresser can’t do as many heads as she would in a Salon and does have travelling expenses .

Thanks for the input, folks. Only just getting back to this after a weekend away.

Definitely think we will be shopping around as the hairdresser in question was quite rude on the phone to me today as well as to my mum when we were trying to sort out the next appointment. 😬Useful to get some info/figures on what others locally are paying.

I'm in the East Midlands and my friend is charged £13 for a dry cut at her her retirement home if that helps and lovely. Not rude at all. She lives very local though.