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.

I just worked my haircut and colour costs out and it comes to around £1,000 a year which shocked me a little. My hairdresser messaged to say she's going to have to put her charges up but made no mention of how much which irritated me - I think she should be upfront about it.

Around £400 a year. Total confidence changer for me as I get older. I think good hair makes me feel more ‘together’

I don't like going to the hairdressers but I like to get my hair done. I know makes no sense, I don't enjoy the time there but like how it looks after.

I'm a natural brunette. My hair is usually waist length or longer, shorter if just been cut. Usually get it cut once or twice a year. Sometimes I do it myself and just take 3-4 inches off. Haven't had it done since last summer. It's £45 for cut and blow dry.

I am starting to get some greys now so know in the next few years I may have to start dying it which I'm dreading 😭 I haven't coloured my hair for nearly 20yrs. I won't attempt it myself so wld need a lot more regular trips to the hairdresser.

Around £500 per year. £60 every six weeks for a root touch up, trim, and blow dry.

The shampoo and conditioner I use isn't the cheapest but I haven't included that in the price.

I think I'm pretty average for someone with coloured hair. If you do colour your hair not many styles allow you to go weeks and weeks between salon visits.

I think the box dyes are fine, I used them for years. But having it done at the hairdressers is much less messy, and she gets to all the bits you can't see properly at the back 😁

Just shampoo from Aldi 😁

Probably the best part of £1,000. I alternate between a full head and half head of highlights, followed by wash, cut and blow dry every 6-8 weeks, costing about £100 each time.

For me, it's worth it. I love my blonde hair!

Maybe 2 haircuts a year- £60 total (in London).

Liese box dye every 2 months- between £11-15. So max £90

£150 per year.

I just use conditioner and shampoo and brush my hair.

£60 on a curly haircut every three months or so. No way I could cut it myself and I see a specialist hairdresser after years of having my hair butchered by other stylists.

Spend quite a bit on frizzease and curlsmith products, probably around £200 a year.

Cut every 3 months: £50 (x4 = £200)
Balayage every 6 months £150 (x2 = £300)
Shampoo, Elasticizer, masks, heat protection and styling sprays, amounts to another £100 a year. So around £600 a year, or £50 a month.
Which, by the way, is the same amount as my DH and his bloody B E A R D .... He goes to a barber monthly, for a haircut and beard trim (and a hot towel, neck massage and all that) - 50£ per appointment.

Pre cut backs about £600

Now I am down to about £250

I miss it though, I don’t do much self care and I enjoyed the hairdressers. I used to go every 8 weeks for cut and colour. Now 4 cuts a year and home dye.

Anyone can learn to give themselves a passable trim of a fairly easy haircut, but that's about it.

There is a LOT more to cutting hair than that, which is why people really notice the difference when they switch from a mediocre hairdresser to a good one.

There are so, so many different techniques for cutting hair and also, good hairdressers know how to adapt cuts and styles for different hair types, including things like hairlines etc. For example, my haircut looks like a short one-length bob. But it isn't. It's very, very cleverly cut to look like a one-length bob. If I actually did have a one-length bob, it would like crap on me and wouldn't be the right shape. It is not something you could do with a video and a three-way-mirror.

about £100 in shampoo, conditioner, curl cream (afro hair). I cut my own hair and don't dye it so no hairdresser costs.

The salon I go to offers silent appointments for people who don't want to chat. They're more than happy for you to sit and read a book for the duration of your visit if you want, or just for you to zone out and daydream!

They'll also happily give you an iPad loaded with digital publications if you prefer to read the newspapers or a magazine, and they'll provide earplugs if you want to block out any chat that's going on around you.

About £600. I have a cut and highlights every 10 weeks on average.

Between £450-550. My hairdresser charges £90 but between her skills and the kind of layered cut I have, I can usually go 3 months between appointments. I don't use tonnes of products but do need to use tgel for my scalp and incredibly light conditioning products so it doesn't get weighed down.

For me whatever I spend on my hair is money well spent. I wear it every day and a good cut, that needs very little work to style, means it always looks good without me having to sacrifice a lie in.

About £500 - 4 x cut and colours throughout the year.

Cut and blow every six weeks at £30 a time, every second appointment I have a few highlights added which is another £30 added on.

I think most hairdressers don't cut their own hair either.

Trims every 3 months so less than £200. I don’t use products really.

I’d love to be able to afford fancy highlights and blow dries but I can’t… luckily I still have my natural colour and quite like it.

Wet cut x 4 year at £26 a time =104

Home coloring £60 a year
Special shampoo and conditioner maybe 100 a year

Styling products Maybe 40

So apx £300?

Used to get professional colour but it got too expensive

0 haven't had my hair cut in about 5 years pr coloured. But I'm going to change that and treat myself to a salon trip for the full works soon!

£300.

8 haircuts and approx. £30 on mouse and hairspray

I get my hair cut every 7 weeks (shorter style to maintain) and coloured every 14. The cut costs £30 and the colour and cut £75 (mobile hairdresser), so £115 every 14 weeks, or about £450 a year.

I do buy professional grade shampoo and conditioner though in terms of value it's actually pretty good. I bought a 1l bottle of shampoo in July last year for £20 and it's just starting to run low. My conditioner was 1l also, bought in November last year and I'm about half way through it and that cost £27.

I don't use much in terms of styling products - just a heat protectant that I buy a couple of times a year and Elnett hairspray.

My biggest splurge was my Dyson AirWrap, but it was totally worth it - my hair has literally never been so nice.

So, all in all, about £550 per year on regular maintenance type costs.

Nothing on hairdresser. About a grand a year on products. Lion’s share of that is Olaplex. It’s the only thing that properly calms my hair’s tendency to perimenopausal frizz.

I use Olaplex 0 + 3 once a month , Olaplex 3 once a week and Olaplex 9 after every wash.