Local hairdresser charges me $5, but I don’t have a lot of hair.
Brian
$10.95 at supercuts in bloomington, In. most places here charge 10-12 for a simple haircut for a man.
$5.99 with coupon at Great Clips. (plus tip)
$12 if I’m really desperate and can’t get a coupon.
I’ve never gotten a bad haircut. Okay, once I did, and she fixed it for free the next day.
I/my mother used to pay $25 at a salon in my hometown. We went to one particular lady there.
I would never pay more for a haircut because I’m female. My hair is six inches shorter than my boyfriend’s and has a less complicated style.
That’s a big load of crap, if you ask me.
Fairly similar to MeanJoe: $A30 for a straight forward cut;* $A60 if I get bleached tips put in (which hurts like fuck, takes forever, and looks vaguely silly). I have to get my hair cut every three weeks or so (it grows fast and thick).
I could get it down for $15-$20 at a cheaper men’s place, but I think the extra money is worth it. Dunno what the women pay, but I’m guessing upwards of $A100 for a cut-and-colour.
One Australian dollar = 0.7893 US cents, by the way.
- Including washing, drying, styling… and a head massage!
$12 plus tip at a very traditional barber shop in San Diego. (The place even has a pool table. Never seen it being used myself, maybe because when I do go it’s always first thing Saturday morning.)
There’s a shop by my office that advertises “10 minutes/1000yen haricuts” (about US$10), so I stop by during lunch whenever I’m getting a little too shaggy. They’re not bad. Most other barber shops are twice that, minimum, although they include a shampoo and shave.
Oh, and the ‘haircut’ mis-spelling is mine, not theirs.
$10-12 at GreatClips. If I have a coupon I just add the extra to the tip.
Female, Nashville
StG
well i guess that you can chalk this up to me living in rural american but my haircuts cost eight dollars straight up. this includes everything from a trim to shaving the whole head.
I’m an Aussie in Brisbane, and I pay about $18. 18 is about the minimum you can pay for a haircut. I only want a trim, not a stylecut, so why go to an expensive place?
Colouring, especially foils, is hellish expensive. (I colour at home.)
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I know my hair doesn’t look crap regardless of the fact that I don’t spend a lot of money on it because I get compliments all the time. 
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I’m growing my hair out for Locks of Love. I pay nothing. NOTHING!
Well, ok. 15 bucks every three months, just to keep things somewhat neat.
Nuthin. I’ve been cutting my own hair since I was about 14 (I’m 20 now), and before that my mom cut it. I’ve only had one major disaster, and mom fixed that one as soon as she saw it. It was horrendously short, though… But in the last couple years I figured out how to do my own layers (as my hair is terribly thick), so I’m all set. I also do all my own coloring, which has lead to some interesting things… I’m sure my hair hates me.
I had my hair professionally cut once, when I had a solo in the choir concert in high school and my mom said I simply had to have even hair. I believe it was $14 at the walk-in place at the mall for shampoo, cut and style. (I was annoyed… I never ever ever blow-dry my hair. The woman blasted it with a dryer for like 15 minutes and then had the nerve to tell me how dried-out it was…)
My other experience with professional hair-care was the summer after my freshman year of college, I’d spent the last month or so of the semester going nuts with hair colors (cherry red, purple, others…) and my hair was… ugh… like an inch of brown roots, auburn to the ends, with cherry red and purple streaks over it all. I went in and just said “Fix this.” THey had to strip the purple, dye the roots and blend everything into a nice coppery color. And cut in layers for me because this was before I figured out how to do layers and I’d recently chopped my hair up and it was triangular. That, I believe, took about 3 hours and cost me around $95, plus tip. And it came out very nicely. Since then, though, it’s DIY for me.
Male, north Chicago suburbs.
$12 at Great Clips, every 6-8 weeks.
I should add that I don’t tip at a place like Great Clips unless I’m using a coupon. Those places are factories that don’t offer any personalized service. Not to mention I usually spend less than 10 minutes in the chair. At the barbershop in my home town, it’s a different story. I recently stopped in for a trim after at least three years. The barber knew my name (I was stunned), made real conversation, and seemed to genuinely care that I had chosen to get my hair cut there. It was also a way better haircut. Those guys always get a tip.
New Orleans. About $25 a cut, in what I’d guess is a moderately upscale salon. I got highlights once, and will again, and he charged me $80. It’s worth every penny even though I don’t get complicated cuts; I swore off the cheap places forever after running into a woman at one who could not trim my bangs straight. How hard is THAT? I can do that myself, for Og’s sake! Why should I pay you to screw up?
What’s more, my hair guy is cute, single, and STRAIGHT. I wonder if he thinks I’m cute. I’d DEFINITELY go out with him.
Phoenix checking in.
I pay roughly $25 plus tip for a haircut. The place I go to has a sliding scale based on the experience of the stylist – i.e., “Master Stylists” get paid more than “Stylists,” or something to that effect. In any case, the woman who cuts mine is a middle of the road stylist, so I’m neither getting hosed nor a great deal. It is what it is.
BTW, you should always tip the guy/gal cutting your hair, kids. Memories are long and you definitely want them to remember your generosity next time around.
Cheapskate bloke, Melbourne, Australia: $A15 ($US12). I recently had my hair cut in Jaipur, India. Same quality as normal (including erudite conversation about cricket): Rs20 ($US0.5).
Nothin’!
For a few years, I let my hair grow. Then I got annoyed that after cycling somewhere I had to sit around with a head full of sweat for a couple hours, so I took it all off. Now I shave it every three months, just about the time it gets long enough to have to comb.
Haven’t been inside a barber shop since, oh, 1998 or '99.
The last time I paid for a hair cut it was about $3.00. That was over 23 years ago.
My wife cuts my hair with a barber kit we got at Kmart for $15 (we replace it about every 5 years because it gets dull, clogged up, etc.).
Over the last 7 years we’ve also been using a FlowBee we got at an estate auction for one dollar, brand new.
My wife still has hers cut professionally. Depending on where she goes and what she has done it costs between $20-$50.
She doesn’t trust me to do it with the FlowBee!:D:p
$14 in the Bay Area, before tip. This is a chain place. I used to go to an old style barber’s where it
was $12, but the owner seemed to lay off all the other barbers, and it was taking hours of waiting to go on a Saturday morning.