How much do you pay your mobile hairdresser?

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I'm having trouble getting new clients. As soon as I mention my prices, they vanish into the nether never to be heard from again. One woman even went so far as to block me after replying she would just leave it. I only wanted to reply 'no problem. Sorry, I couldn't help more.' when I refused to put bleach on her hair and leave it in for her to wash off herself.

My prices are £20 for a full head colour (inc quick blowdry)
£30 for a full head colour, cut and blow dry.
£30 for full head foil highlights or balayage inc blow dry or £35 inc cut
£25 for half head highlights.
£7.50 to add Olaplex.

I bring my own shampoo, conditioner, styling tools, towels and products. I don't use cheap shit I use branded, quality products. If my prices were any lower I would be paying towards my client's hair which I'm not willing to do.

My price for a wet cut is £10 and my kid's cuts are £7.50, so it seems my cutting prices are in line with what some of you pay, it's my colour which is the issue.

What's going on is I'm taking the cost of a blow dry/cut and blow dry off the coloyr when people barter. My price list states £20 for a colour, £10 for a blow dry and £15 for a cut and blow dry, making a colour, cut and blow dry £35. Maybe I should keep my prices as they are listed and stop making them cheaper when people message me asking.

Don't let people barter, your prices are extremely reasonable

I pay £25 for cut and blow dry,using my own shampoo, not had a colour,but i know she charges £45
I am in North Yorkshire, but ut varies here too

I'm in the south east. I pay £30 for a cut for me, and £10 each for my (teenage) kids. I don't have colour. I go to my hairdresser's house rather than her coming to me, if that makes a difference?

I pay £70 for full head cut and french plat.

Price seems very cheap

When I was looking for a new mobile hairdresser I would discount anyone with your prices. Too many awful £15 haircuts I was looking for someone around £25-30 for a cut

£10 for a wet cut and £37 for a full head of highlights with a cut.

What do your local salons charge?

Our nearest Saks (the most 'exclusive' salon we have close-by) charges £31 for a full head colour and £40 for a cut and blow-dry. Supercuts is £16 for a cut and blow dry and £53 for colour, cut and blow-dry.

I pay £10 for my cut...no blow dry

I tracked my hairdresser down and offered her money to come round my house

Very stalkerish behaviour

You sound cheap! Mine charges £20 for a blow dry, and £20 for a root tint. I think she's cheap too.

Sounds as if prices vary a lot across the country.

I pay £35 colour, cut and blow dry. I haven't been in a salon for years so no idea what they charge now. I'm in Midlands BTW.

I wonder if you are living in a quite deprived area and perhaps people who are contacting you have been doing their own hair as can't afford salon, and are hoping you would be affordable for them so they ask but find that in fact they can't afford this.

Perhaps you just need s little more time to find your client base.

I do live in a very deprived area but I can't afford to pay to get my own hair done, so there's no way in Hell I'm going to pay towards someone else's, which is what I would be doing if I was any cheaper. The colour alone costs me £9 a tube and then there's the wear and tear on my tools.

I'd be willing to work with people and perhaps buy cheaper (but still perfectly decent and better than box dye) colours but how would I world that without offending people?

I’m in north east OP and I paid yesterday £85 for cut and full head of highlights and I have short hair.
It’s not a super swish salon but extremely popular.

I pay £77 for half head of foil highlights and cut and blow dry. This is in a salon

By the way, is it normal for highlights to be left on for 1 hour and 10 minutes before washing off? I’ve never been so long in the chair and my hair is a bit fluffy now, not sure if it was left on too long?

£55 for a full head of highlights, cut and blow dry. I call it £60 with a tip. I wash my own hair out, she literally does the colour, takes foils out, cuts & dries after.

Generally manufacturers advise 50 minutes max but there are exceptions to this. I've left bleach on for longer before but only with a v low developer, Olaplex and constant monitoring. Bleach does dry your hair.

Try deep conditioning for a few days with a moisturising conditioner. Although it's not a high-end Bleach London's Resurrection mask is the best I've tried for bleached hair. Joico K-Pak is also great but can be hard to get hold of.

If that doesn't help go back to the salon and ask them to fix it with regular treatments.

I mean this in the non-snobbiest way possible but is it that your market are also people who (in your words) ‘can’t afford to get my own hair done’? If they have no hope of affording a salon and, for example, usually get their mum/a friend to trim/add a box home colour, they’re going to find any amount expensive.

Could you flyer a more affluent area/do some targeted FB advertising or do something else to reach the market that matches your price range (because it certainly exists!).

£20 for a root tint, that I wash off myself. £65 for foils, root tint, cut and blow dry.

Yep, I think cheap prices are attracting low brow clientele (ie annoying, difficult, haggling already cheap prices, want something for nothing etc). It reminds me of when I used to work in high end fashion retail, the usual customers were polite and tidy, but when sale launched we had droves of customers that were rude, essentially trashed the store by leaving clothes on the floor/tangled mess in the fitting rooms, would switch price tags etc. Especially as you say, you live in a ‘deprived’ area anyway so your potential customers may not be spending the average salon service costs in your area to begin with so they’re not going to realise the value in your services if they’re used to doing their hair themselves

You say you use olaplex and higher end brands, do your customers need/want that if they’re on a tight budget? Are you unnecessarily increasing your overheads by buying products that are too luxe for your client’s needs? Would it be worth advertising in a better area?

Also do the pictures of your work on social media match your prices?

If you lived near me I would snap you up

I’m from the southwest the prices are around £40for long hair even at the college Is getting to expensive charging what ever they want from the manager is the 1 who is telling his students to tell clients the price or if you phone they always seem to ask his approval on the prices . Very wrong . SW Bristol

Long hair cut is £40 southwest.

My MIL paid £95 yesterday for full head of highlights and a cut (Surrey). That seemed fairly standard to me.