Ok I'm fed up. Why does it cost me £45 to have my hair cut and dried. Whereas my husband goes to the same hairdresser and gets away with £15 for the same.

OK, I do have slightly longer locks and it may take a little while longer to tress them, but it does seem outrageous that there's such a price differential.

Anyone else fed up with paying over the odds for hair/beauty treatments? Do you think that hair cuts should be graded on amount of hair/length of hair, rather than whether you're male and female.

What about child's haircuts - anyone else paid £10 for a child's trim or £4 for a fringe cut (which takes all of two minutes) - again doesn't this seem a lot - or am I going to the wrong hairdresser! Ed

Bring back Granny and the pudding basin i say, so simple sit protagonist on stand up chair place pudding basin on head and what hair sticks out cut off,done no charge easy

The haircut only costs a couple of quid. Its the chat you pay for!!!!

It annoys me too. My hairdresser doesn't charge a set price for cut and blow but it does tend to be less for men regardless. Mine is always the top whack because I have all manner of layering done. I don't mind so much for the colour as although I pay the highest rate for that also, I tend to have 3/4 different shades and go through about the same number of those squeezy bottles having it applied. That and it is shampooed 4 times to get the colour out fully and really for 3.5 hours worth of work it doesn't seem so bad.

However I was working with somenoe who again has colours and doesn't mind paying for that, but had long hair with a straight fringe, which she basically would have trimmed. But she would get no price reduction for that - so around £45 for a trim. Not good!

I do wonder though if I went in and asked for a dry cut, which is what most blokes do at barbers, what they would charge.

£8 for a haircut at my local barbers, you are in and out in 15 minutes. A friend of mine was persuaded by his new lady to use a salon, cost him £36 including some "product" for his hair, and he never went back!

I had a wash, blow dry, gorgeous cut and my hair straightened for £15 at my local salon. It took the girl about an hour and a half.

it makes a difference where the premises are, i spose they pay more to be on a high street - i always go for quieter areas, never posh areas and not near a station! My hairdresser is £15 and very skilled - but that's a dry cut.

i went to a posher salon in wimbledon for convenience a while ago - £32 - the cut was same but they did extras - drinks and biscuits, wash, condition shampoo, blow dry, products etc. that's why they charge more i think.

used to simple quick salons I found the posh one uncomfortable and boring. i can bring my own biscuits thanks!

I have hair below my waist, and the last time I had a cut, I paid £35 approx for it. It was basically a trim, but I thought that was vfm!

£7...in and out in 15 mins.


BLISS....

(TBH I have never paid more than £8 for a haircut...though ONE day I will treat myself to an expensive haircut to see what the fuss is all about)

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Originally posted by akkcrawley:

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Posted 09-08-06 11:45
I have hair below

that`s a merkin,surely?

And she paid £35 to trim it.... like, how bushy was it???

LOL

hairdressers charge what they can do not what they will give you. crap

Cost me £90 for a cut and colour, disgrace.

Don't mind paying for the colour as it's a skilled job (unless you are just having an all over same colour which you could do yourself like shampooing). You only have to look at someone's hair to tell immediately if they've spent a fair whack on it or had it done cheaply.

I always thought that at nearly all salons, the 'stylists' were self employed and bought a chair for a set amount, then were allowed to set their own prices.

I go in during the day when it's not busy and also pay less.

i live in a small town but the shop rent is very high also i only like the very qualifyed hair dressers to cut my hair lol so it costs a lot.

Well ok... hairstylist here - hope i can help, some hairdressers 'rent a chair' some dont and for that the charges could be different, in the salon where i work the charges would be the same for both men & women (dry cut)but more costly for long hair if washed & finished - only £20-£25 - we are all fully qualified...as for childrens cuts, in my opinion they should (tho they're not) be the most expensive because they are so difficult to do - they fidget,twist,scream, Ohhh Nightmare!! Hope that answers some of your questions x

Ex-Hairdresser here.Don`t know how they get
away with the charges because the stylists
don`t get paid well AT ALL! Go to salon
services & to buy a tube of colour costs you
a couple of quid.

i paid 102 squid for a full head of foil highlights with a trim and blow dry.

i have paid 70 squid for all over colour.

my mate pays 35 squid for all over colour, trim and blow dry!

i wish i could get to here salon but i just dont have the means

I have been to a "branded" salon and I have been to a backstreet salon.

Wherever I go, my hair gets cut the same way, only difference is the cost.

"Branded" salon charged £40 for a trim and blow dry straight, backstreet salon charged £18.

If you are not having anything too "technical" then it really isn't worth wasting your money.

Another thing I used to do was go to my nearest hairdressing "academy" and get it done by a trainee. Again, if its just a basic cut then its really good value.

There isn't alwways a big difference in price. My salon charges from £37 for a ladies cut and blow dry, and from £20 for a man's, which I'd say is fair: my hair takes at least 45 minutes to do whereas my boyfriends (who goes to the same salon) takes about 25 minutes, if that

And you can get haircuts a lot cheaper than £45! I admit that's what mine costs me, but there are a few salons near by where prices start at around £10 for a dry cut, £15 for a cut and blow dry

OMG! so i have been duped!!!!! last week, i went to get my hair cut to the salon and paid £50 my hair was not that long..... i will never set foot there... oh well it was my fault too anyway...