Back ground: for about 10 years I box dyed my hair mostly dark/ red/ purple colours. In a moment of madness about 5 years ago, I stripped my hair and dyed it light it didn’t look great but looked ok and one of my friends, a hairdresser offered to fix it for me.
& I’ve been blonde or thereabouts ever since.
For the last 5 years I’ve been going to her exclusively (bar lockdown in which I unsuccessfully switched to box dyes again) she is self employed & always given me friends and family discount and has cut and coloured my hair nicely.
However the price has slowly crept from £50 to now £140 for each appointment. I’m fully aware of the reasons why, she’s now in a better salon/ chair, inflation, paying for experience etc etc.
However my mum who has a similar hair colour to me recently got her hair coloured by a local, much less fancy salon and paid full price with no discount and it cost her £90 and he hair looked lovely.
If my hairdresser wasn’t my friend (albeit from a wider circle) I’d move to this new salon in a heartbeat. However I feel almost a sense of guilt for cheating on my current hairdresser and will inevitably bump into her at social events and she’ll see I’ve had my hair done.
so
YABU - save some pennies for the same result
or
YANBU - your hairdresser is a friend and I should be supporting her business instead of looking elsewhere for a saving.