So I read an article (Hillary Clinton’s $600 haircut | Page Six) about a $600 haircut.
My question is, what do you get for a $600 haircut? Is it just the “pride” of having a “celebrity” hair person cut your hair?
I pay about $10 for my haircuts and it looks pretty darn good, I cant imagine spending more than $50 for a haircut.
I just wonder what all you get for $600
For $600 you can rent 2 runways at Los Angeles airport for 3 hours. Bring your own plane.
Not what I was asking but okay. I wanted to know what a $600 haircut gets you that justifies the cost, whether its just for a name brand stylist or what
That seems awfully awfully cheap, if you are talking about LAX. I’m basing this only on my exgirlfriend who did property management for a high-rise downtown. She told me they charge $10k minimum just to land a helicopter on the roof for an hour. And it’s not like there is dozens of international commercial helicopters coming in and out every hour like there would be at LAX. She said maybe half a dozen time ever in the years she worked there.
As for the haircut, I would hope it would come with hookers and blow…
There’s only one way to find out.
What does $10,000 get you in business class? A little more leg room, a nicer meal and a hot towel. I mean seriously, you could go together with 3 other people going to the same destination and rent a G-5 with actual hookers and blow.
In the last paragraph, it mentions the supposed $200 haircut that Clinton got in 1993 that supposedly shut down an airport, which didn’t happen the way it was described in the initial news stories:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_haircut_controversy
I’d wait a little while to see if the story about Hillary Clinton is accurate.
Here’s the website for the hair stylist that Hillary Clinton visited. The site says the haircut is “from $125.” If she really paid $600, she might have had other services as well. (Something called a Japanese straightener is a thousand bucks.) And perhaps her haircut cost more for being done by the guy who owns the salon?
It shut down half the runways at the airport for an hour. It’s one of the busiest airports in the world. They average a landing ever 55 seconds so that means about 60 planes were delayed. Probably more because there are fewer landings in the early morning hours.
Hillary needs about 3 times more attention to her looks so the price seems about right.
No, Clinton’s haircut did not shut down the airport’s runways. A KNX news radio (AM1070, Los Angeles, a CBS affiliate) reporter was broadcasting live from LAX and debunked this right at the get-go. It is a fable that is repeated back and forth by true believers to each other, but it is not a true story.
Yikes! At my local barber shop just outside Tokyo, I get a great cut, shampoo washing, shave and light head massage for about US$16. No tip necessary.
Women pay more for styling than dudes. Those in the public eye really really don’t want a bad haircut.
I’ll note that the OP links to the NY Post, which a laughable citation.
For women, coloring alone can cost a few hundred dollars.
More to the point, it’s a rather neat double-bind: If she pays enough for a good haircut, she’s wasting money on vanity. If she doesn’t, and therefore looks less than perfect, she’s a slob and (gasp!) unfeminine.
I’d call it classic election-year bullshit, but the election is still over a year away.
Maybe he has a lot of hair?
Hell yeah. My wife and I have basically the same haircut, and yet she pays almost three times as much as I do - at the same salon.
I was waiting at a local salon for my daughter recently, within earshot of the till. There was a woman there with her son, about seven/eight years old who was just finishing up.
He stood beside his mother while she paid and watched as she put her card in the slot. “FORTY SIX POUNDS!” he exclaimed in a loud clear voice. “FOR A HAIRCUT?”
His mother shushed him and hustled him off.
A couple points having nothing to do with the specifics of this supposed “event”, but the Q the OP asked in general …
When you are wealthy and powerful, a lot of what you do is competitive spending to demonstrate to your peers & near-peers where you stand in the pecking order of wallet size. Besides, what use is money if you don’t use ( = spend) it?
The most valuable thing one buys with an overpriced experience is freedom from associating with the scruffy people. Us ordinary schlubs can see the difference in clientele between dinner at Denney’s, at TGI Fridays, and at Ruth’s Chris. Imagine how that looks to the folks for whom Ruth’s Chris is slumming.
Rarity has a value all its own. There are (tens of) thousands of anonymous stylists who can competently do hair. Only a handful are famous. (see #1).
I can’t address the Op specifically except to echo others who note that a woman will pay much more than a man would pay for a similar cut (my wife pays roughly 3x what I do). If you add in coloring or other add-ons, the multiplier only goes up from there.
I will point out that these stories pop up like clockwork every election cycle. Others have mentioned various stories about Clinton haircuts from the past. Here’s one about John Kerry from 2004. And here’s one about John Edwards from 2007.
The OP’s article says “It is not known how much, or if, Clinton paid for the haircut…” So the entire story can be summed up as “Hillary gets a haircut” because that’s the extent of the facts in the article. And given the fact that they say haircuts start at $600 there and include the long debunked Air Force 1 story, I’d like to see proof that she even got a haircut because their batting record isn’t impressing me enough to trust them on even that.