Hairdresser costs £168?!

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I have just been charged £168 for my regrowth colour. No cut. The hairdresser explained the cost was high as it had to cover the toner, a treatment and a blow dry. She is a creative director level but the 16 year old trainee did the toner, treatment and hair wash.

i am not in london so I would not expect the cost to be so high. Also I go every 4 weeks as I have rapidly growing hair and have been totally grey for many years. So I can’t afford this.

I don’t know if she is taking liberties and thinking I will fork out for all these additional things (I did the k18 at home, otherwise it would have been nearly £200!). Or if this is the cost nowadays if you go to an experienced hairdresser.

grateful for any advice. As I feel a bit of a fool and I don’t know whether I can trust the hairdresser (if she is just adding costs on) or if this is standard. She does a good blow dry but the colour isn’t anything amazing and I have purchased all the extra things she has suggested (various shampoos, conditioners, k18, glowwa, wella shape me)

any advice would be so helpful! Even just to say ‘yes thats to be expected from a director level person. And if so o light rotate between her and a less experienced person.

thank you.

I bought ican £6 Amazon powder. I have black hair and so my routes this this

Absurd prices - particularly without a cut! Wouldn’t pay anywhere near that in London! 80 pounds for cut and colour last time I did it.

What!!!!

I have my highlights touched up every 7 weeks. I also have a toner, cut and blowdry. It costs me approx £100

Wow that is a lot! I box dye my hair (and root regrowth) which might be worth a go!

I’m £62 for root tint, highlights and cut. Small village so no city centre rent.

All 3 hairdressers in my street drive luxury cars and lead an expensive lifestyle.

"I have purchased all the extra things she has suggested (various shampoos, conditioners, k18, glowwa, wella shape me)"

why? So you paid all this extra on top of £168.

And also, what price did they quote you before you went to the salon?

Where I live if it's a fancy salon and a director with treatments etc then it's around those prices.

I mean if your going to a hairdresser with 'creative director' as their title I would suggest that would be a expensive salon.

If the colour isn't that impressive I would suggest moving.

It’s a normal amount to pay a creative director for the sort of colour work you’ve described, depending of course on the salon. It wasn’t helpful of them not to talk you through it beforehand and check the price was OK for you though. That’s not on.

I pay just under £200 for full head highlights (very long hair), toner, cut, and blow-dry with the salon owner (small salon). Market town, not a big city. They use lovely products and it's the first hairdresser I've been to where I'm confident I will come out with EXACTLY what I've asked for, so it's worth it to me. I don't get my hair done that often, though, as I do wince a bit at the price.

I have my roots done and a blow dry with straighteners for £64. I have roots plus highlighters about twice a year. About £85 if no cut included. If I'm having the lot ...roots, highlighters cut and blow dry about £96. £168 for just roots and blow dry?? That is almost 3 times what I pay and if I was asked that much for what you had done I would faint clean away 😱 Either they have made a mistake about what you had done or it's time to find a new salon op. Like you I need grey coverage every month but far less often hair cut. Many people with grey to cover monthly tend to always get their colour with their cut so it's possible they've made a mistake or e and have charged you for a cut as well..that did happen to me once. Even if that was the case I do think their prices are extremely high.

i stopped going to my local hairdresser because it was coming up to £180 for a cut colour every time, and rising,

they charge more depending on whether your hair is above or below the shoulder, they then started charging more for when you last had your hair cut, so if it was 8 weeks, it was one price, if it was 10 weeks, another, 12 weeks another and anymore than 12 weeks they charged you a restyle fee

literally everyone I know who went to them has stopped because they were doing two price rises a year and you’d never know how much it was going to cost. This was just in Ipswich, so no where fancy!

as a result, they are now always posting last minute availability on social media - clearly everyone has just gone elsewhere. Serves them right for being greedy.

I paid £75 for my daughter to have half a head of highlights and a toner. That was with out a cut or even a blow dry. I nearly cried when she said how much!

That is insanity. I go to an upscale city centre salon in the middle of Leeds every four weeks for root growth and toner from a stylist who wins national awards. I pay £50 if no cut. I'd say you have been royally ripped off

And this is why I just use a box colour now.

I have just paid £150 for root touch up on my highlights, plus blow dry.
However it's a high end (famous name) city centre place and I only need to go about 4 times a year so I think it's worth it - they do such a professional job.
I used to go to my local place and pay about £50 but honestly I was never happy with it and it looked 'cheap' in comparison.
You get what you pay for.

I paid that today for exactly the same. Yeh it's a lot but when I tried to change hairdressers to a cheaper one they were rubbish.

Buy the recovery dye from a private hairdresser directly and do touch ups yourself

I live East Yorkshire and I’ve just paid £68 for cut blow dry and half head highlights… nearly £200 is insane!!

Im not in London and have paid around that price for a full head of highlights and toner in a middle of the range salon. But that's because I'm in the chair for three hours and it's a time consuming process. I would say £168 just for your roots plus toner is extremely high for a non London salon.

I couldn't get in to my normal hairdressers and booked a tiny place near our house (north east)

Cut and full head colour was £40. It's no different to what I usually pay £80 for! I couldn't believe it and told her she was way too cheap. I sent her £55 and she was over the moon.

I live in London and in my opinion many hairdressers here are taking a piss. I’m so tired of the excuse of an increased cost of living. Most of them are just greedy! Extremely expensive and juggling too many customers at once so you spend too many hours there. Of course there must be some lovely place that I don’t know but generally speaking.

This price is par with a fab salon in Leeds where I got possibly the best haircut of my life. I don’t mean to minimise it, because I was shocked when I checked the price list for you.

I wish my hair was not so tricky. Sadly only some expensive stylists (mostly Sassoon trained) seem able to cut it well. All of them work in city centres.

I tint it myself because otherwise I would need a stylist in my village just for colour. Too complicated and I worry about offending them.

I dye my own hair, box dye, takes half an hour!
Last time I went for a cut the girl was asking who my colourist was because it was so good....er me and 'garnier rich brown number 64' 😆😆
I get pretty baffled when people say they can't dye their own hair(apart from blond), it's so easy.

Thanks so much for sharing all your experiences. The consensus is this is way too high (and I can’t afford it anyway!). But I have looked at websites and they all seem to add on costs easily eg toner is an extra £33 , a blowdry is £49 (you’d think that would be included when they do your colour! And I’m not evening going anyway- maybe I should just walk out with wet hair and save the £49!). I’m inspired to do my own, but it was pretty bad when I did it myself during Covid ! Anyway I’ll shop around; thx again for the different perspectives.