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

Oh and there's no way I could cut my own hair! As was proven during covid...

DH and DS didn't let me near theirs after one attempt either...

Possibly I could cut my own hair.. it’s long, straight and probably easy to do. But for £60 I get it washed, conditioned, a scalp massage and then I spend half an hour gossiping and setting the world to rights with my hairdresser. Money well spent in my opinion.

Yes you are but your point was it was true, posting twice does not make it true. It means you think it’s true but thinking is not the same as it being .

There is no way I'd risk another dry haircut.

I only pay £50 a cut. It takes an hour. She snips and chats and wanders. She had double booked herself last time, but didn't want to let either client down, so she did us both. My wash cut and blow dry took less than 20 mins and looked exactly the same as when she faffs about.
That's the service I want tbh. No faffage, and ideally to pay a bit less.

The difference is that men and women are charged the same for a meal out.

They are not charged the same for a trim.

Women are not even charged double. They are usually charged 3 -4 times what men pay.

Im arguing against the discrimination

If I look at it as an hourly rate my DH pays a much higher rate than I do.
He pays £23 for 20/25 mins
I pay £90 for a minimum of 3 hours but it's often closer to 4.

I could never even cut DDs’ fringes straight, so how on earth I’d ever manage to do my own…

I pay around £50 for a cut from a very good Brazilian chap at a local salon.

And?

Surely, if you can cut the back of your own hair, you are capable of putting something to hide your identity when you post a picture of this hair cut? I really want to see it.

Why would i lie about a colleague complainig about her overpriced haircut.

It would be a very bizarre thing to lie about. Its such a silly thing to say to me! This place is mad

Oh come on...nobody picked up on your spelling mistakes. Commenting on SPAG errors is considered poor form.

The OP misspelled "house" earlier, maybe we should have pointed that out to her seeing as its so important to her

My stylist does the preliminary cut on my wet hair, then blow dries it and straightens it, then finishes the cut.

Slightly scared to post this given the strength of feeling on this thread but here goes. Just putting it out there to add to the discusssion.

There’s a book by Naomi Wolf called The Beauty Myth which explores how the time, effort and money some women spend on conforming to society’s beauty standards can be detrimental to the development of their careers, hobbies and financial security.

I have some sympathy with the sentiment, because I see how much more time and money men seem to have for hobbies , but I don’t see it as women being ‘deluded’ into anything. Some will genuinely enjoy it (as a form of self care).

I do think there’s a very real and strong social pressure that exists for women in a way that it doesn’t for men (although that’s changing as capitalism has realised that it can make more money). I can get away with my messy hair because of where I work, but in a high-powered corporate role I’d be expected to look more groomed (something black women have experienced a lot of discrimination about) and my hair type means this would need professional help. Without using half a tonne of product to slick it back, it would look like I’ve been drawn through a hedge backwards. And yes, it shouldn’t matter (my hair in no way dictates my ability) but let’s be honest, appearances matter and people do judge us on them, women particularly.

Women are held to far higher appearance standards than men, for a lot of women there are social and financial consequences if they don’t conform, and conforming means spending money in many cases.

I can't even cut paper in a straight line, never going near my own hair. Tried to cut my fringe during Covid, never again!

No. No is a full sentence. Don't ask me again. Im not putting a photo that hides my face.

I'm disgusted at the people even asking me.
You should never ask anyone to post a photo
of themselves onto a chat forum, that is read by thousands of people

Don't do it to anyone else.

Brilliant!

I pay a professional to do my hair because I want it to look nice. Anyone who can cut their own hair and it look good has both skills and easy hair; I have neither.

Fringes are the hardest thing to cut, I think. People often underestimate length and cut them too short.

Diagusted? And a "return" in the middle of a sentence. im is actually I'm. Unnecessary full stop between you and so. You were the one who started with the grammar and spelling ....

You are clearly from under the bridge. Not sure how the thread has gone on for so long.

Typos on phones happen to everyone.

However, writing "pretty much unanimously" - now that made me laugh!

Yes, I've noticed that with the bald men increasingly. The Turkish barber used to be really quick visit with my sons' hair and now there's a row of men having hot wax stuck up their noses and 'steamings' and all sorts of beard weirdness going on. And they all leave looking exactly the same as when they came in.

My dd has cut my hair since she was age 10. She started in lockdown when it didn’t matter and she is now very good . I have proper scissors for the job. I have fine straight hair and a simple blunt bob not worth paying a fortune for

Your grammar is also shit. You shouldn't be criticising others if you can't even do it properly yourself