Why do women pay so much for haircuts

[Moontan]

My colleague just came in complaining about how expensive it is to get her hair cut. She paid 100 pounds.

I was thinking - why don't more women cut their own hair

I think that advertising and marketing has convinced a lot of women - that they must pay someone else a huge amount of money to cut their hair for them.

When it is actually very easy to cut it ourselves.

My mum always cut her own hair.

i also always cut my own hair. Its really easy to cut it very straight at the back, and I also cut layers at the front of my hair

I don't have long hair.

I have a colleague who cuts her own hair, I always tell her it looks nice. In fact it looks shit but she’s not into her appearance so what’s the point in hurting her feelings?
my hairdresser doesn’t cut her own hair because it never looks as good as when someone else does it as you don’t have the full 360 view when doing yourself

I think YOU should post a picture of your hair with something hiding your face.

I'd really like to see your salon-cut hair. Go on, show us all what a perfect job a professional does when you pay for it.

You don't have to look like an advert, spend the money on something meaningful ❤️

Who are you to decide what is meaningful? I like having nice hair. It means a lot to me and it makes me feel good about myself. I can afford it so it's not an issue.
I also enjoy the process and as I've known my hairdresser for 20 years and consider her a friend. I enjoy her company.

But… many people do.

But they might want to. Just because you wouldn't send your time in that way doesn't mean others shouldn't. You don't get to speak for all women.

That's the lifestyle marketing - somehow it's easier for women to get the two hours to need a haircut than to do something else which would be potentially more pleasant for them.

Yes 😬

That would only be useful if they posted a picture when they had also cut their own hair to see the difference though, surely?

No one is suggesting that no one should cut their own hair but it’s absurd of the OP to suggest that everyone should/can.

As it happens, I can barely wash my hair at times due to pain..feck knows how I’d manage a cut.

Are you following the thread?

I replied to a specific poster .

She said 'not everyone has long hair that is easy to cut"

I replied to her, "I don't have long hair"

Very happy to - I like my hair and I cannot do it myself. I am out at the moment, but let me get back and I will post one. Probably only the front or side though as I am not capable of cutting the back of my hair and not taking a photo of it either. Please don't tell the OP though as she will report you.

This may come as a shock to you but perhaps they WANT to? Have you thought of that? I pay to get my hair done because I want to, I work hard and I decide what I spend my money on, no one is forcing me and I've not been brainwashed, I enjoy going because my hair looks amazing afterwards, worth every penny..

You wear your hair everyday. Price per use is therefore technically very low! I invest in a good cut and highlights

Yes of course they can want to.

I was replying to the poster who wrote "going to the hairdresser might be the only time they get to themselves". That sentence didn't make sense.

My MIL has posed the same question about why women pay to get their hair coloured when they can just do it themselves as she does. All I’ll say is I don’t know anybody else who would want hair the colour hers is.

I, and someone else has posted to say that our husbands, and in my case, my son, pay more over the course of a year than we do.

Obviously there’s the whole colouring etc, where it’s seemingly ‘acceptable’ for men to go grey but not women, but that’s completely different from the point OP is attempting to make.

Not everyone can cut their own hair, do their own eyebrows, nails. It require skills and patience which I don’t have; if you earn a decent salary you are happy to outsource for the things you are not expert it. Same thing with paying a cleaner, gardener, etc. Sometimes you don’t have the time, energy and skills.

You wrote very happy to, but you haven't.

Lol

There is no way I'd be able to cut my own hair. I wouldn't even know where to start. I have had enough crappy hair cuts in my time to completely appreciate how brilliant my hairdresser is and I'll never go to anyone else.

If you have long (ish) hair it might be.
I have short hair cut tight over my ears and at the back - no way could I do that myself.
I did cut it a couple of times over lockdown,and because it was a good cut originally I managed to keep it reasonable to begin with but it gradually got worse and worse as the original cut vanished!
And I couldn't cut it to be how it was meant to be, only so that it was okish.

Of course 'it's easy' to cut hair. A pair of kitchen scissors and off you go. What isn't easy is make it look great. And home haircuts don't look great.

poster says they are out at the moment. A little patience required…

Plus is nice being pampered

It made perfect sense. It might be and that person might choose to use that time to get their hair done.
It's not difficult to understand.

If you ever want to start.

You just put your hair in a ponytail in front of your face. Hair in ponytails or plaits are easier to cut than loose hair. Then you do a quick cut through the ponytail.

That's the trim done