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

But your overall question is “why do women keep paying for haircuts” and you keep talking about how easy it is to cut your own. You need to realise it’s not that easy for everyone.

I have hair down to my waist and haven't been to a hairdresser in 5 years. I trim it at home but it’s wavy and all one length so easy.

I’ve had a few snide remarks on how I can afford highlights. I do a full head at home and it costs under £10 using Jerome Russell bleach and toner.

I have really thick hair so going to the hairdressers would be very expensive. Even when I had money, I would have refused to pay £50 for a trim.

Of course it makes sense. When my dcs were very young I thoroughly enjoyed 90 mins at the hairdresser’s !

You may find it easy to cut your own hair, many people don't. I've done my own a few times when I've not wanted to go to a salon and it is nowhere near as good as having a professional cut.

Did you read my post? I am out at the moment so don't have the ability to look in a mirror and get the photo right. I was extremely careful to say that it would not be right now.

agree. for my simple, thin, one-length hair, that i'd like an inch off, dry cut, no wash, no blow dry, no styling ... there isnt an appropriate category to put me into in a hairdressers. They can only price for the full salon experience and you still pay £40+ when you sat in the chair for ten minutes.

In most businesses, forcing users into a bundled price for features they don’t want causes them to not renew or not come back.

Salons try to do the same thing, but times are changing. They bundle wash, blow-dry, styling, time buffers then wonder why people with simple needs drop out, ask a friend to run the scissors iver it, do it themselves or go to men's barbers.

Straight hair is much harder to cut, if you want it to look good. Bar trimming the ends of very long hair anyway. Wavy and curls hair is much more forgiving for a home hack 😆

Why don't I cut my own hair...?

1. I don't have eyes in the back of my head so I couldn't see what I was doing
2. I am not adapt at anything requiring small detailed manual dexterity
3. I have very thick, very straight, heavy hair
4. My hair doesn't hang evenly
5. I spent 7 years finding a hairdresser who could even cut it to sit level, most hairdressers made a complete pigs ear of it and they were trained and experienced.
6. It still takes my hairdresser an hour of careful layering to get it even.
7. Having lost all my hair to chemotherapy in 2022, and now regrown, I want an expert to keep an eye on it all.

Possibly the silliest suggestion ever on Mumsnet

Yes but you could have done anything in that 90 minutes!

The poster wrote it like going to the hairdressers was the ONLY option for women to have some time to themselves.

Yes, OP seems to be struggling with reading comprehension
lol..

And if your hair won’t go in a ponytail at the front of your face?

That's nice that you do your own highlights! My friend does hers at home too.

Of course I could have done. My choice and that is what I chose.

Then use the technique for shorter hair

Which is..?

Why do you have an issue with women choosing to spend their time getting their hair done?

Since when can people not take photos when they are outside?

Very easy to do

My hair won't even tie in a pony tail behind my head let alone in front of my face.

I can now fringe trim between cuts thanks to YouTube videos during lockdown but I really can't cut my very fine straight hair to make it look nice/in a style.

I suspect although you can physically cut your hair that's the main reason you won't post an anonymised photo because it would disprove your assertion that anyone can cut their hair (nicely).

But that isn’t what she said she would do…
still struggling with the reading comprehension..

I know it's beyond weird....

Sounds like an excuse to me. You can take a photo outside.

You insisted on asking me to post a photo.

Another poster then said to you "why don't YOU post a photo"

You haven't. I don't care about seeing a photo of you as im not weird. Stop asking other people for photos

I don't think I'd be able to cut my own hair- though I have thought that there should be an invention to make cutting your own hair easier.

My neighbour (somehow!) cuts her own hair- and that of her dh and dc . I would ask her to do mine but I feel she may only have one style in her.

Sounds like an excuse to me. You can take a photo outside.

You insisted on asking me to post a photo.

Another poster then said to you "why don't YOU post a photo"

You haven't. I don't care about seeing a photo of you as I'm not weird. Stop asking other people for photos

Exactly. When my DCs were very young, it was lovely to sit in the chair and relax and nobody asked me anything or expected anything from me.

I have very short hair and I razor cut it every couple of weeks or so. I hated the blunt scissor and clipper cut I got for £65 every 4 weeks and much prefer a softer razor cut. Really easy with a 3 way mirror .