AIBU that a haircut shouldn't cost £60!?

[HollyLondoner]

Why is the cost of my haircut increased every time I visit? I have my haircut every 12 weeks on average and the price increase a few pounds every time. It's gone from £35 around 5 years ago when I started to £60. My favourite hairdresser hasn't been promoted so it's not that. I know she gets paid minimum wage and it doesn't feel right but she's an amazing hairdresser. I went today and was charged £62!?

The cheapest person is £58 and most expensive £90! Not a crazy fancy salon. I'm on the outskirts of London fyi so no means central!

YABU - that's how much it cost
YANBU - it's become so expensive!

Yes!! Clearly most of the moaners on here have never run a business.

And that’s fine. It’s those that moan about it. Don’t like the prices, whip out the kitchen scissors and butcher your hair yourself.

Mine costs £30, and he comes to my house!

If you only want your hair cut phone around some local barbers for a price.

I pay £89 for colour and trim in Cardiff. Not even a fancy salon with trendy cutting edge stylists. It's usually full of pensioners having their hair set.

We’re allowed to moan.

I went today as a pre birthday treat. Price had shot up, again. She hacked in a fringe I didn’t ask for and then insulted me by saying things about my appearance and slagged off me having a new build.

It’s really no wonder there is never another client in the salon. I’ve stuck with her for years but it’s time to find someone who’s worth paying the extra for.

I pay £105 - curly hair specialist. Only go every 6-9 months though

Have a quiet word and see if she'll come to your house

TBH if she's that good she should have moved on by now. That wage is ridiculous

Yes. Costs have gone up.
Trying to fool you they need to put the ENTIRE price increase on to each and every customer or single piece of product is a fucking huge scam thought. A scam that's being perpetrated by many a business for the last five years and the public is buying it, literally, completely.

Example...Let's say Bob works a machine that produces one hundred thousand widgets a week and they give him a £4 per week pay rise. Companies are expecting any person buying one widget to pay £4 extra for that one widget, citing Bob's huge business destroying £4 pay rise as the reason widgets have gone up in price. £4 extra costs, bit of moaning gaffer, four hundred thousand in extra sales, still moaning gaffer and the customer totally believing it.

It's obviously not that simple in the real world but it is definitely happening.

Exactly what I do. But she charges £20 a dry cut. (I give her £25.) She does it better than the hairdressers who cost 3 times more too.

I just paid £130 for half head highlights toner and cut n blowdry , outer London

Mine charges £30, works out of her house 2 minutes walk from mine

Blimey, I wouldn't go there again! Try and find a hairdresser who will visit your house. They can often be found on your local Facebook page. They are often well trained and very experienced, and have gone it alone after getting disillusioned with the overpriced hairdressing salons, and the way they are treated. They are usually 2-3 times cheaper too.

@Soddingcat couldn’t say it more clearly.

So many people do not understand the costs that businesses have. Even before the recent NI increase the additional cost of employment is huge and many people have no idea what % this is. For the industry I work in the NI, pension, apprenticeship levy costs are around 40% so whilst you think your hairdresser is paid £12 the actual cost to the business is likely to be closer to £20 per hour.

Many also want their hairdresser to know the latest methods and techniques; the cost of training is another cost that people don’t consider then add in the day to day running costs and you’ll be close to the amount your being charged especially for salons in the south where business rates and rents are extortionate, that’s why many high street have empty shop after shop.

How do you know what she’s paid by the hour, and why is it less than NMW? If she has five years’ experience and has never had a pay rise above NMW then she is being exploited.

How do you know they're on the payroll and not renting a chair?

Any decent salon in Bristol, cut, blow dry plus full head of highlights and treatments is best part of £3-400

Lower priced salons are £150-200

Not sure where people are getting these ultra cheap treatments from.

Also, most businesses owners are just trying to make ends meet. I don't think anyone is trying to rip you off.

Offer her forty to come to your house and do it - you both benefit

Happens on every thread about hair. Competitive thrift. ‘I hack at my hair with the kitchen scissors and I look great.’ Etc etc.

I used to pay £45 in zone 6 20 years ago. That’s not bad!

I pay £58 for a cut in a salon in an upmarket city. I only go 4 times a year. It takes about 45 minutes. As an hourly rate I think that’s reasonable. My hairdresser has to pay to rent the space in the salon. He’s good and do I manage fine going at 3-month intervals.

I have fine hair of one length, naturally straight. It ends where my shoulders start.

For the last few years my mum trims it every couple of months...snip snip! I do hers, too.

It is actually better than when a hairdresser did it - proper blunt cut like I always wanted.

When I went to a salon it used to cost £40 for two seconds work, no styled blow blow dry either because I never put heat on my hair. I just can't justify the cost considering all the other demands on my finances when I can basically get what I feel is the same at home.

Post links to 6 hairdressers in your area (Bristol) that charge £400 for a cut and blow dry, and highlights.

Go on.

I started cutting my own hair during the first Covid lockdown. I haven't been to a hairdresser since late 2019. Up until then I used to have my hair cut and highlighted every 12 weeks and paid at least £150, often more, so I've saved a fortune in the past 5 years.