# How much money do you spend on your hair in a year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796 "2007-01-28T03:11:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/41 "2007-01-28T20:16:29Z")
Between the two of us - probably about six to seven linear feet of hair - around $65 a year. He’s cutting his hair this summer though and I refuse to allow him to go to Fantastic Sam’s or the like, plus I’ll be doing a pity cut, so that number will easily quadruple. We trim each other’s hair for the most part. I got long layers put in last fall for $20 at my university salon, which was my first salon trip for my hair in 8 years. Female, 25. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/42 "2007-01-28T20:26:23Z")
Edit: I just realized I’m spending way too much on hair. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/43 "2007-01-28T21:41:56Z")
Lately it is about $100 a year 6 haircuts a year 15 bucks each 10 bucks in shampoo. In the past I used to spend 120 bucks a haircut (two tone color) then probably 100 bucks a year in shampoo conditioner and styling supplies. That was a time when hooking up at clubs was much more important to me. 28/m ---
**Author:** ![blue\_sky\_dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@blue\_sky\_dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_sky_dreamer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/44 "2007-01-28T22:01:05Z")
For the ladies who get their hair colored only a few times a year - I’m guessing you’re not trying to cover gray, are you? My roots are sufficiently noticeable after 4 weeks that I need to have it redone. I used to color myself, but the results were progressively less… pleasing… so my hairdresser does it now. $75 x 12 = $900. Hair trimmed once every three months, add $15 bucks to the coloring. $15 x 4 = $60. Shampoos and conditioners generally last me about two months a bottle, then there’s the assorted styling stuff… I’d say about another $100 or so per year. Bottom line is that I’m in the $1000+/year club. It’s my one significant personal indulgence, so I’m okay with that. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/45 "2007-01-28T22:17:15Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Hmmm. About $600. It’s one hundred every 8 weeks to color my hair-that’s about 6 times a year. I buy grocery store shampoo, so that’s maybe another $50. I used to color it myself at home-and it never looked as good. I enoy the pampering I get at the salon–it’s one of my few indulgences. (it has to be-it costs so much!). \ [/QUOTE] I spend right around the same about. $125 per visit; cut and highlights. I try to do that every 3-4 months. I buy grocery store shampoo but I get the more expensive ones. I don’t feel guilty about it because it’s a lot less than women who have to cover gray every 4-6 weeks. However, my girl doesn’t do much in the pampering department. I go to her because she’s convenient, but I’m sure I’d be as happy or happier somewhere else. It’s hard to break up with a hairdresser! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/46 "2007-01-28T22:30:22Z")
Gay male 38. I get my hair cut twice a week about $20 or so plus a couple hundred on hair products. Probably about $750 or so per year. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/47 "2007-01-28T22:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] Gay male 38. I get my hair cut twice a week about $20 or so plus a couple hundred on hair products. Probably about $750 or so per year. [/QUOTE] Twice a week? Wow. What sort of 'do are you sporting? I don’t think I could stand being in the chair that often. I can barely stand it four times per year! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/48 "2007-01-28T22:48:15Z")
At the moment, my dad cuts my hair with an electric razor (no guard) every four to eight weeks, so no haircut expenditures. I’ll count some of the shampoo as mine, so say ~$8 every two months=~$48. I don’t know if I’ll be cutting my own hair in college, but that would save a lot of money, since I don’t like having hair long enough to come and it’s usually too cold to get it totally shaved. Ideally, I’d live in a warm area and be able to keep my head shaved, saving money on haircuts and shampoo, but that’s probably not going to happen. For the record, male, 18. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/49 "2007-01-29T00:17:32Z")
Cuts 5 times a year - $70 each = $350 If I get things like highlights or lowlights or color it brings the price way up (maybe another $400/year), but I haven’t had my hair colored in almost a year. Shampoo and other products - maybe something like $300 a year. Hair accessories - another $50/year And I have my hair styled once a year for a special event, usually costs around $150. So, I’m also hovering somewhere around $1000 a year. Married, 36. My husband probably spends about half that. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/50 "2007-01-29T00:22:43Z")
Female, 25. I have Rapunzel hair. I generally just trim the fuzzy ends off when they split, and it’s slightly wavy down there so nobody notices or cares if I manage to get it straight, so that’s $0 on haircuts per annum. I have highlights in the front, but they’re blatantly obvious ones that have an “entirely on purpose” look whether they’re down to the scalp or have 2" of roots growing out. I get those done by someone else 3-4 times a year at about $40 per. $80-120 there. I’m not all that picky about shampoo. At the moment I use that Pantene red boost stuff, but anything in the $5/bottle price range will usually do. I need to use conditioner or I would break the comb every time I tried to get the knots out. I go through a bottle of each in 2-4 weeks, depending on whether I’ve been doing anything strenuous that requires extra showers in a day, so I’d guess that’s an average of $15/month on that – another $180. I don’t use other hair products. I may possess a bottle of gel, somewhere, but it was left in my care by someone else. I think I once bought a bottle of colored hair spray for Halloween, but that was years ago. I don’t really buy headbands or those toothy clips, because my hair just overruns them and they break, fall out, or otherwise fail, but I do periodically notice that I have lost all of my hair elastics and have to go buy more. I keep bobby pins/roller clips around for putting it up for real if I’m doing something where having 2.5" of braid might be dangerous. I probably spend, oh, $10-15 a year on that. So at most, I spend somewhere just over $300 on it per year. The money I save as compared to the other people in my peer group who get a thousand haircuts and buy sixteen different kind of hair mousse mostly goes to getting more computer parts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/51 "2007-01-29T02:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] Gay male 38. I get my hair cut twice a week about $20 or so plus a couple hundred on hair products. Probably about $750 or so per year. [/QUOTE] Twice a week!? :eek: Wouldn’t that work out to over $2000 at $20 a cut? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/52 "2007-01-29T02:46:11Z")
Somewhere around $100 Haircut every few months at the $10 shops: $60 Economy-size bottles of shampoo and conditioner, about $12 a pair: $36 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/53 "2007-01-29T03:42:15Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] Twice a week!? :eek: Wouldn’t that work out to over $2000 at $20 a cut? [/QUOTE] LOL..I meant twice a month! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/54 "2007-01-29T04:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] LOL..I meant twice a month! [/QUOTE] 😃 I was wondering if the stylists would even be able to cut as small an amount as would grow in half a week. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/55 "2007-01-29T10:44:05Z")
For last year: cut and color every two-three months, at 42€ a pop, let’s say 200€. Two bottles of “normal hair” shampoo for the whole year (I only need to wash it once a week, most of the year) and a bottle of anti-dandruff shampoo, which I use when I’m under stress because that’s when the white flakes tend to come around. Total less than 250€. This year I need to find a hairdresser or, alternatively, just stop cutting and coloring. ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/56 "2007-01-29T11:48:28Z")
I get my hair cut every 6-7 weeks so about 8 times per year at about $60-70 per cut. Colour once or twice per year. I don’t know how much wax/gel/stuff I use, maybe 8 jars or so at $15-20 each. It’s a fairly expensive brand but they last a long time and I tend to buy them when they’re on sale. I only use normal shampoo, but I have no idea how much I use. So in total I probably spend $700 per year plus whatever the shampoo cost is. Straight married male age 33. Looking at the figure above maybe I should hand in my hetero-male membership card though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/57 "2007-01-29T19:49:45Z")
Around $8 a year for hair spray. Around $6 a year for shampoo. So, about $14 a year. And I look EVERY BIT OF IT!!! 😃 (Seriously, I buy cheap shampoo when it’s on sale for $.89 a bottle, my hairspray is $1.99, and I cut my own hair.) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/58 "2007-01-29T20:18:03Z")
If you add up everyone in this thread - I think I still spend more that the total. I am a huge product whore - my bathroom is full of “stuff”, it helps that I am allowed to shop at the wholesalers, but just barely. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/59 "2007-01-29T20:33:31Z")
Spending money on my hair is pretty much the only indulgence I’m spending money on lately (not a lot of going out to clubs/movies, buying less stuff like clothing/books/DVDs). I’ve had short hair for the last couple years (not quite a pixie cut, but less than two inches), so it has to be cut every six weeks or so to keep looking good with that style. Currently I’m growing it out a little - hopefully to about chin length by the summertime. Then I’ll likely still go for color every six weeks (I _hate_ noticeable roots), but switch to getting it cut every twelve weeks. **$1006** _Hairdresser: $880_ Haircut = $40 every six weeks or so, call it 8 times per year Color (foils) = $60, usually get highlights and/or lowlights with every cut Tip = $10 - I usually tip about $10, but sometimes I’ll give more (e.g. $30 when I had an appointment just before Christmas) _Hair product: $126_ Shampoo and conditioner= $6 per bottle (on sale), bottle of each lasts about four months Mousse/gel/assorted hair goop = $5 per month (each bottle probably lasts three or four months, but on average it’s probably about $5 per month in total) Hair clips/headbands/scarves = about $30 per year ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796/60 "2007-01-29T20:37:51Z")
$25 or so every couple of months for a trim. $6 conditioner also every 2 months $4 shampoo every month $3 every 4-5 months for gel. $8 for a random bottle of leave-in conditioner, shiny stuff, or frizz control stuff. $4 twice a year for hair bands equals… …about 275 a year. Not bad considering my hair is my best feature. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-do-you-spend-on-your-hair-in-a-year/389796.md?page=4)