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 pay £160 for full head of highlights on long hair, multi toned scandi-look. Toner and CBD.

The prices are crazy, my hairdresser has almost doubled in price since Covid. I’m £200 for a cut and colour and when I pay the card machine gives me the option to tip 10%, 15% or 20%. It’s a large salon and it’s always full

I'm in an expensive bit of London but found a hairdresser (she put an ad in local Facebook group and several people said she was great) who does my cut and colour at home for £80. She's here for 2 1/2 hrs so I think that's more than fair.

£160 for half head of highlights, cut and blow dry - in london zone 3

Yeah those prices sound about right for the salon I go to in Manchester. I have thick hair so always end up paying more. It was one of the reasons I decided to stop dyeing my hair. Now I only need to go every 3-4 months and I could leave it a lot longer if I needed to. My hair is very wavy so it tends to look the same for ages until it reaches the point of being too long and the curls stop forming.

I use Josh Wood colour (the cheaper one without the toner). If I buy it at Boots on offer it’s less than a tenner. I do it every 3 weeks & am really happy with how it looks. It looks totally natural.

It’s so annoying that a “creative director “ can charge ridiculous amounts and the lower down the ladder stylists cannot charge the amounts. I dear they pluckma figure out of their arses.

When I was in London in July I got a full head balayage, cut & blow dry for £319. This was Central London and a moderately experienced hairdresser. So £168 excluding cut doesn’t sound too much to me, especially if it’s a creative director.

My highlights and a cut are £200 in London if that helps you assess the worth.

if you go every 4 weeks, how much do you usually pay? or do you have one of these hairdressers who makes it up on the spot?

I think it does sound quite normal for outside London. Used to be a thing ‘London prices’ but lots of places are catching up hairdresser wise

Find someone else.
Mu lovely hairdresser works from home and I pay £46 average for roots, t panel highlights with face frame, toner and cut. I don’t have it blow dried as I have curly hair.

I left London in 2004 and at that stage I was paying £230 for a cut and colour so it doesn’t sound that bad to me! Up north I paid about £150 for the same though I moved to Europe 2 years ago so now I pay less.

Midlands. Last highlights cut and blow was £250. It was a new hairdresser. I am torn about going back as cut so good.

How long does that take? Because that's barely covering 2 hours wages and materials

I would say that is overcharging! I get a tint on my roots , a half head of highlights, cut and blow dry with the senior colourist. It costs just under 200 pounds . This is in the SE England and a very good salon. Am I clear in reading that you only had roots done with a tint? Ie all the same colour?

My hairdresser recently raised her price by 5 quid for root regrowth and blow dry. She's now a princely £34 😁
Lancashire.

That quite expensive

I remember paying £90 odd quid in a hairdresser 15 or so years ago a d being ASTOUNDED. Let alone the price you just paid.

I cut my own hair now and have let it go its natural colour and it looks fab. The amount of money I must have saved in hairdressers since I stopped using them will be thousands of pounds.

I go to an expensive hairdressers and that price is ridiculous! That’s just insane! Exited to say… unless regrowth is some sort of lift then tint and then she’s also doing foils to break up the colour. Even then it’s top end prices.

I pay just less than that, but it also includes the cut. I go less often and do the colour myself in between. I’m a dab hand now at box dye, my hairdresser says I’m really good at it, so I’m not ruining things between visits.

I go to an experienced hairdresser. She does a full head of highlights, toner, cut and dry for less than £150. Yours is defo ripping you off!!

This is one reason why I have never dyed my hair. How can anyone afford that level of maintenance?!??

I just paid £166 for a full head of highlights, treatment, cut and blow dry, I’ve got extremely think hair so they use about four times as much dye as a regular person and I get an extra long appointment, this was a fancy salon in an expensive area, the stylist has won awards.

Exactly the same here OP, I could have written that. Gradually gone up here and there since 2020 and last time it was £180. I’ve been sat on this for a while now, it’s too much isn’t it, it’s just not ok really. I’m not London. But this is the general price for my area too and I just don’t know what to do. I really like my hair when they do it, but I think it’s too much and I don’t know who to move to and still get decent results. My appointment is next week and I’ve been sat on this for 7 weeks now!