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.

Good Lord. I paid £55 for roots, cut and blow dry today. It’s £65 for half head foils, cut and blow dry.

I was taken to a super-swish hairdresser down South for my brother’s wedding to my SIL and it lasted 30 mins. You can’t underestimate the value of a hairdresser who completely knows your hair

Extortionate. But in these times where small businesses are paying through the nose with business rates, I can’t blame them.

I had toner done a few weeks ago with no cut, and it was £59.00. This is in an expensive area in SE England but not London. Today my cut and blow dry was £54.00 - I have long hair so it's more. It's £45 for shorter hair. Half head highlights were £67.50.

You're not allowed to do this at an expensive salon I used to go to. They say that it takes away from the final look and finish. Yeah right!

The add-ons are shocking. I've been to salons where you can't book a colour without a blow dry. In your situation, the worst thing is that the trainee did the majority of the work but you were still charged creative director prices!

Honestly I think the cost of hairdressing has gone through the roof! It’s crazy. Yes I know you’re paying for someone’s experience but I do think it shouldn’t be THAT much!

Tube of decent colour costs about £13 as well. I do think there is a huge markup.

I don’t mind paying that much if the service is very good.

I just left a salon (Wirral) that did amazing colour. But they always ran late and were overbooked, and I’d sit for ages between steps.

For that much money, I want a very good cut and colour and I want to be in and out.

People spend their money in different ways?

I’m in Edinburgh but go to a local salon rather than one in town. I’m just under £80 for colour, cut and blow dry. I would not pay £168!

That is mental, granted I'm not in London but wow that's expensive. I was in the hairdressers one day for 9 hours as her sole customer for a colour correction and it was 160. I get half head highlights, root tint, olaplex, toner and a cut and blow dry for 95. No juniors in their salon. Takes about 3.5 to 4 hours as I have ALOT of hair.

With a senior stylist at my Home Counties hairdressers, a cut, root tint and blow dry is £120, root touch up only is about £45-50, blow dry £30.

I’d ask around for other local recommendations .

I do my own roots in between salon visits and a tube of decent colour is actually more like £22 nowadays. It’s gone up a lot in the last few years.

Having said that, the price the OP paid is what I pay in a nice city centre salon including a cut.

Always loved music and dancing since I was a child. I would love watching the school performances in their beautiful green huge netted ballroom dresses and others in pink ballet tutus and slippers. Wishing I could do the same. Later on age 11 a friend and I were taken to disco lessons in a hall I went twice only but would've continued for years as I absolutely loved it learning Saturday Night Fever. I knew one day I’d get to do this on my own steam. By the time I was 17 I was clubbing regularly and have being doing dance fitness classes since I was 18 so 40 years now and could join and fund a gym myself and motivate myself now to keep going.

My bad I was viewing prices in trade acct not retail! But even saying that £168 is crazy for sure

I was paying £140 for half head of highlights or £160 for full head. Not London, not even close. It was getting ridiculous, I really did like my hairdresser and was happy with the results but it's just too much money. Every visit she would have had a 'promotion' and new job title meaning her prices were bumped up again.

I took a risk and changed to a newly qualified stylist at a smaller salon and she was £75 + £10 for toner (she wasn't upfront about the toner being extra which did irk me!). The result is pretty much identical. I'll be going to her from now on, she was half the price!

Well she got charged for a ‘creative director’ hair do but it wasn’t the creative director doing her hair! That’s not on, really…

Do all Hairdressers have Creative Directors. Seems a bit over the top.
Maybe so they can charge outrageous prices?

Also a few women l know who have more money than sense like to boast about how much they have have paid.

Their hair looks mo different than the styles and colours by the local hight street hairdresser.

Get another hairdresser.

I'm totally gobsmacked reading through these responses. I am not and never have been wealthy, but I am currently saving to get my hair done by a guy I trust, who really takes his time to understand what I want and uses Aveda products. I'm expecting to pay close to £250 but this will be for a transition colour on long hair, and I usually have three colours and an overall toner.

I haven't had my hair coloured in a very long time, finances meant that I did it myself for a while, but having now gone salt and pepper and grown sick of it, he's the only person I want to change it up. To me it's worth it, but there's no way I'd be paying that every month or so. It, and seeing him, is a real tonic, very uplifting, and if I could afford to see him on a regular basis, I would. I can't, and so it has to be just for the "big" events.

The salon visit is a bit of an 'experience', and I'm always treated to lovely coffees and even delicious cake. I have sometimes been there close to 4 hours, so as a treat, I realise it is a lot of money, but it feels worth it to me.

I have a roots colour cut and blow dry every 9 weeks it's £74

Find someone more reasonable you should get your hair dried so you can see how it looks imagine if you got home and you hated it there must be other hairdressers you can use or a mobile one who you can afford.

F - me I just paid 10£ in asda for garner box. My last haircut was 62" £ , small salon outside London. Anything over 100£ is insanity.

That is expensive - and I live in London. You can buy a root touch-up like Colour Wow which would mean you didn't have to go quite so often. Look around online for hairdressers available in your area (and read the reviews), Prices vary but you will get a better deal somewhere that isn't part of a big chain. And for that sort of money you should definitely get a cut as well.

At mine they will ‘dry it off’ for you so you’re not walking out with dripping hair.
rather than blow dry style it - I’ve only done that a couple of times, but it’s worth doing so if you’re not going anywhere I think.

I’ve also been present when another client said she didn’t want a blow dry as she didn’t want to pay for it, but asked if she could use the hairdryer so her hair wasn’t soaking, then proceed to give herself a full blow dry in the salon.