To ask how much you spend on your hair a year

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I mean hair cuts, colour, styling and special products. Over and above normal shampoo.
Just read on a thread where prices were mentioned casually and I am amazed at the costs.
I get my hair cut maybe three times a year. Spend less than £150 in total. My hair could look significantly better if I spent more I'm sure, and if you can afford it then no reason not to spend more.
Just wondering what is normal.

My salon has an online tipping system via a QR code stuck to the mirror. It’s great, Cuts out any awkwardness and having to make sure you have cash for tips.

Wow! That's a holiday for me. However I bet you a million quid you look about ten times better than me 😁.

I get my own hair it's long and easy to do. I also cut all my kids hair and DHs. I'm quite good now, even the teens let me!

£95 every three months so £380 / year. I LOVE my hairdresser!

I generally get it cut once a year, so about £60

Around £1000.

Cut every 6 weeks, with foils and toner every other cut, and just toner when no foils.

Will occasionally buy a special treatment/product, but I wash my hair like once a week so they tend to last and don't really add much cost.

I've been to the hairdresser's once since COVID and I think it was about £30 for a cut. I've got a few grey strands that I don't dye and I only use supermarket conditioner. This is not a humble brag, my hair looks seriously shit, but lack of time due to life circumstances means it has had to be way way down the list of priorities.

£15 every 2 months for a dry cut. Then box dye every 6 weeks (usually buy from supermarket when it's on offer so around £5 per box. Shampoo/conditioner is just from Home Bargain.

About £600 a year - cut and colour every 8 weeks or so at £100 a pop. My hairdresser is a friend, it would cost quite a bit more in a salon around here.

What's it like going to a training salon? I realize that you must be happy with it, of course, since you keep going there, but other than that?
Is it a different student/trainee every time, or can you get the same student to cut your hair on several visits?
Is there a teacher present that can help out if they need it?

Maybe €50 on two haircuts. If conditioner and hair mask count too then an extra €25-30 on top of that. My hairdryer is 15 years old and my straightener 8, but I rarely use them.

About £500.

Have it cut every 8-10 weeks (£35) and on alternate visits have colour (£100 approx including cut), although trying to extend periods between each visit.

I'd love to see photos that go with these crazy prices.

I spend £100 a year on me, dd15, and ds9. We all have hair halfway down our backs.

Nothing. Try learning to do it well, yourself. Hairdressers aren't rocket scientists. Anybody can learn how to do it. You can buy 3 way mirrors and there are plenty of free videos online to teach you. If you want to save money, you're a mug if you're paying for someone else to sort your hair out.

I have tried doing what my hair stylists do but I have hypermobility in my fingers and repetitive movements cause them to dislocate or lock. What takes them a few hours, takes me a 1.5 days min just so my hands have a break and doing things in between like making meals, school run, helping DC’s with their school work, etc.

I’ve only just found this year a way to detangle my fine, curly, coily, wavy in some places hair in less than an hour and that is a mix of white vinegar and water sprayed on my hair. I’ve changed it to water steeped in cloves and rosemary with white vinegar and it has helped tremendously. Works on DS1 and DS2’s wavy, curly hair too.

Appts can cost me about £600 a year not including other fees so would say £800 max. Each appt around £100 which is very reasonable for what they do.

Hair products maybe around £300 but I have been spending less due to making my own products. My hair loves yogurt and hot oils treatments which are cheap to do.

About £550 that is a cut and colour every 6 weeks.
I spend more on my nails!

I pay about £50 for a cut every 6-8 weeks and about £60-80 for a colour every 4-6 months.

I don't know what I spend on shampoo but a bottle of Aveeno lasts ages and costs about £8 a bottle. I wash my hair about 4-5 times a week.

Nothing. I just buy average priced shampoo and conditioner, and very occasionally use things from one of my beauty advent calendars just to use them up. I've been to a hairdresser once in about 25 years - my hair is long and I trim my own fringe and the ends when they need it. My hair is getting quite grey now I'm in my mid sixties and I really like the colour. I don't own a hairdryer but I have got a straightener which I use on my fringe from time to time.

@SkaneTos its fine - you get a different student each time and they check stages with a teacher each time they are about to start a new bit.
I have pretty much straight long hair, so hard to get it that wrong (2-3 inches cut off, still at shoulder or below length) and my fringe is generally left to last and the teacher tends to monitor that bit very carefully (as do i!)

the blow dry is always good experience as i never do that at home.

I'd probably not recommend it for more complex hair, unless you are very laid back.

Why are the GHDs better? I’ve sometimes been tempted to buy them but baulked at the cost. I get that they’re great for people with really curly hair who straighten it, but do you think they are good for fine-ish straight which needs a kink?

I spend about £150 every 10 weeks at the hairdressers, in a year that’s £750. But on top of that I buy decent shampoo and hair products. Living Proof, Philip Kingsley, Kerastace etc. That probably adds a good few hundred quid over the year.

I sincerely doubt I'd be able to replicate what my stylist does in the salon. I have thick hair so he thins as well as cuts it every appointment.

If money was really tight I'd give up the highlights as I managed to find a nice box dye during lockdown.

Frankly though I like having my hair looking decent. I don't spend on other beauty treatments- no manicures and use Philips IPL and hair removal cream for that bit, maybe get my eyebrows waxed once per year, so spending money on one of the first things people see when they notice you is a good investment for me.

I lost my hair due to chemotherapy at 42 and it grew back grey so ever since I've been on the Regrowth root treadmill along with highlights every other visit. I'm ashamed to say this probably costs me about £1200 per year.

Oh and because of my thick greasy menopausal hair, I've found cheaper shampoo is better as no silicon or parabens. Herbal Essences works well.

Around 1k. Roots/trim done every 4-6 weeks. Balyage re-done when needed. Occasional blow drys/hair ups for special occasions

I go about 3 times a year and it's £140 each time (balayage, cut & blow dry) so £420 a year. I have a very sensitive scalp so also buy expensive shampoo & conditioner but it's been a game changer for my hair - and I tried pretty much everything on the market whether cheap, expensive, medicated, baby shampoo cleansing conditioner etc. As I go more and more grey I'll probably need to up the frequency of hairdresser visits.

Have no shame. I hope you feel well, I'm sure you look great 🙂