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.

My hairdresser charges £120 for full head of highlights, trim and blow-dry. But he comes to my house so I wash own hair using own products. At the salon the same near me for a senior stylist would be about £200. This is central London. But that's a full head.

Just don’t use the creative director. You don’t need to swap salons if you like it.

I always leave with wet hair as a salon can never dry it as well as I can at home (shoulder length curly/ringletty hair) but they do my colours so well and very inexpensive - £55 for foil highlights and my roots. I have so much hair, I'm in the chair for 2.5 hours and that's without a cut and blow dry!

I pay around £130 a cut but it’s with a curly specialist

How much did she charge when you last went 4 weeks ago?

Mine costs roots, £65 includes cut and blow dry. One woman salon on her own land not in a town centre. My hair is bra strap length, a full head of headlights with Olaplex and a lovely head massage with the toner on is £130. You need to shop around. I am in Yorkshire.

My daughter just did a cut (from long to short - £62, then a week after a full head highlights - £105). I thought it's very expensive. We are just outside of London. And all the hairdressers around have about the same price list.

I never pay for a blow dry. I get highlights and it’s extortionate - I’m not in the UK but for what I pay here for a half head, I can get at a salon in the UK a full head, cut and a treatment.

That is a ridiculous high price and even more crazy when most has been done by a trainee.

I would feel taken for a fool and would not go there again.

Was it a Toni and Guy? They do rip off at times.

My hair grows v fast so grey shows quite quickly. I just get clairol root touch up and found that even after opened the tubes are fine for weeks, so every fortnight I just touch up with half a box and use the remainder the next fortnight. This way, my roots cost me just £6 a month 🙂.

It’s cheaper than what I pay at Toni & guys for full head of hilights, toner & there version of wellaplex no cut and blow dry. If I went to a local independent salon with a top level stylist it would be approx £110 for hi-lights, wellaplex, toner, cut & blow dry.

Blimey that's high. I go to a "high end" hairdresser in Gloucestershire and they do add a lot on for colour if you don't get a cut at the same time but even then it's nothing like that cost. I had a t section of highlights last time without a cut and it was around £120 (they tried to add on £35 for a blow dry with a trainee but I said no thanks so she passed me the hairdryer so I could blast the worst of the wet off).

My natural hair is jet black. Box dyes do nothing for it, it needs bleaching first :(

Full head, toner, cut and blow dry is around £170-180 where I am.

To answer your previous question Op, I do literally walk out with rough dried (damp) hair to save on the £60 blow dry!

Not a Toni and guy. I did try and compare their prices but could not see them on their website. They could be more transparent.

Haha! I didn’t Realise people did this - but it totally makes sense!! I’d have saved £49. And I don’t need fancy hair to watch tv later!

Did you get a quote beforehand?

Yeah this is essentially what box dyes are for that price is insane

So do i! I pay £26 for a wet cut , north west but posh suburb of big city

Mine costs £110 for full head, cut and toner. I would look elsewhere

Less than £70 for cut, blow dry, roots, highlights and toner.

I no longer go, but it would cost me over £200 every few weeks for a colour. Hair cut and blow dry is £98. Bog standard little town. If I went to Brighton you could add 50% again. However the prices should be transparent. I had my first cut for two years yesterday and chose the apprentice who was 38.00 quid plus a fiver tip.

I stopped going to my hairdresser with a salon in her house when she charged me £280 for a balayage cut and blow dry. My new last charges £160 for the same thing!

New lady not last. Both did include a toner and my old hairdresser was absolutely incredible but £280 was an absolute piss take!