I go through a bottle of shampoo about every two months. Ibuy them on sale with coupons, and have sometimes gotten them for free.
I’d say $10.
$60 on a haircut probably 3x/year, plus probably $100/yr on shampoo, styling gel, spray, and various fun things to try that I see at the salon. So that is…$280-ish…
Less than £5 - I cut my own hair with a trimmer - I only spend on shampoo and I’ve got a big bottle that’s lasted me 2 years.
I used to spend zero on shaving products too - I was bearded - but I guess I spend £5 / month or less on gel and blades. A blade lasts me 2 weeks.
Haircut at Supercuts every six weeks, buy 8 and get one free.
$20 x 8 = $160
Big-ass Nexxus Therappe $19 * maybe six a year = $114
Big-ass Nexxus Humectress $30 * maybe six a year = $180
Neutrogena Anti-Residue Shampoo $6 * maybe three a year = $18
No product, no hair dryer to replace, no brushes
$472
[I wash and condition my hair every day and Nexxus gives remarkably different results so I guess it’s worth it.]
What is your plan for managing the awkward growing-out stage? I have a short-layers-all-over cut I was thinking about growing out, but as soon as the front gets unmanageable I cut the whole thing. I thought of trimming the front and letting the rest grow out but that reminds me of a mullet, and I’m not sure I want to end up with bangs/short layers in the front.
Until I read this thread, and learned about men who get haircuts every 2-3 weeks and women with pixie cuts who also need frequent trims, I didn’t realize that very short hair requires more maintenance than longer hair! I have learned something new today. 
Me:
7 cuts per year @ $45 ea (including tip) = $315
1 bottle of Garnier shampoo = $8
1 bottle of Garnier conditioner = $8
3 bottles of Garnier leave-in conditioner = $15
2 bottles of medicated shampoo from salon = $40
2 bottles of medicated conditioner from salon = $40
I don’t tend to buy new brushes, clips, etc. often at all, so I won’t count them, which makes my grand total per year $426. Not nearly as much as some others in this thread, but considering that I used to be happy cutting my own hair and buying a couple bottles of Pert Plus every year – :eek:
I’m 35, female, with shoulder-length hair.
Hair cuts - 3/ year at $50 each (including tip)
shampoo/conditioner between $40 and $50
products that promise to reduce frizz, boost shine, define curl, etc… way, Way WAY too much. (Actually I get a lot of this stuff free from my mom after she’s disappointed with it) Probably $50 to $100 depending on how my income was in a given year.
About twice a year I have events to attend which merit getting my hair “done” that’s another $100.
Yearly total: $350 to $400
I don’t color because I don’t have enough time or money to have it done professionally and am too lazy to keep it up doing it myself.
I have spent as little as $10 for a haircut and as much as $200 the degree of attention and ambience I want seems to fall in the $40 - $60 range.
I get a haircut every 5-6 weeks, so let’s say 10 times/year. I usually go to SuperCuts so, including tip, it’s unlikely to exceed $200.
I don’t buy any product and get my shampoo at CostCo.
I have promised my wife that I’ll be going to a “salon” now instead of SC so 2007 will probably be more in the neighborhood of $500.
8 cuts x ($136 +$20 tip)= $1248.
Color + partial foil + cut every 6 weeks
The henna I use to colour my hair with I think costs $15 a purchase, and is good for two treatments, so that’s probably $30 a year.
I honestly have no idea how often I buy shampoo or conditioner; not often enough that I pay notable attention.
Which means “$30 plus however much shampoo costs.”
Female, late twenties.
I’ve done the growing-out-short-hair thing without bangs before, and I’ve found that there’s always a couple months where I end up using headbands and nice clips to keep the hair in the front off my face. Luckily, I think I can pull off the headband look pretty well - some of my friends have tried but it makes them look like they’re eight years old. 
Actually, I have an appointment for a haircut/color tomorrow. My hairdresser sometimes teases me because I like to bring in pictures to show what I want (since I’m not the best at describing hair styles verbally). But now I have a few pictures I can post that I’m taking to my stylist tomorrow!
Basically, I’m just letting the layers on the top/sides grow out and “catch up” to the rest of the hair, which I keep trimmed.
Here’s a few pictures of me (Sorry if they’re not very good - camera phone). The one on the left (with blonder highlights) is from this past summer. The hair on top is slightly longer than in the back, where it’s under one inch long and styled kind of “spikey”. Last time I went for a cut I told her not to take any off the top and sides, and just to trim at the nape of the neck. Now it’s grown a bit (about 3/4" in 6 weeks, going by the length of my roots).
I took the picture on the right tonight. The way I’ve been styling it doesn’t seem much longer on the sides than in the previous picture, but that’s because of the way it’s swept back. The third, smaller image shows that the hair is about halfway down my ears now. When I get it trimmed tomorrow I’ll probably again take almost nothing off the top/sides, and just trim the nape. I’m also thinking I won’t keep the bangs short, but let them grow longer and swept off to the side - sort of “supermodel bangs.”
Here’s a collage of some pictures I found on the internet. Hopefully in a few months my hair on the sides will be somewhere between my ears and my chin, like the first picture here (although it probably won’t be that long in the back yet). Between cuts, when it’s getting long in the back, I kind of style it all messy-like, as in the second and then in the third image when it gets longer.
And here’s a few more pictures that are a bit longer hair. The first picture is similar to how I used to have my hair about six or seven years ago - a long bob with no bangs. Now I’ve gotten used to bangs I’ll probably go for long bangs/short layers in the front, like the second and third images.
My eventual goal is an angular bob at, or just past, chin length. It’s a really flattering length for me. I’ve had longer hair in the past (shoulder length and longer), but my hair is really fine and has no body, so if it’s long it just ends up in a ponytail all the time anyways.
Sorry if this was too much rambling on and on!
Waenara – your current haircut is adorable. In fact, it’s exactly the style I’m letting my hair grow out to. In fact, in fact, I saved the photo to my computer so I can print it out and take it with me when I get my hair cut next.
My husband calls it the “90 mile an hour 'do” because of the flippy thing.
Haircuts at quick cut barber 3 x $10 = $30
Grey cover (w/coupon) 12 x $5 = $60
V05 shampoo (sale price) 3 x $1 =$3
= $93
I get a haircut approximately thrice a year. How much is dollar in kroner again? 6.3, lets see, that makes it to 40$ times three. So I can’t say that hair cuts to much into my expenses.
My haircut is much more boring than yours, but these tips are still good ones. I guess I should keep getting the back cut while the top and sides grow out, to miminze the mulletness!
Those are all really fun styles, and you look like you can pull them off!
Thanks Jess and gigi! I know a lot of people (esp. men) prefer long hair on women, and it’s nice to get compliments on your hairstyle. I love my stylist, and she really seems to know how to cut my hair well. I always get tons of compliments after she does my hair - friends and co-workers of course, but also a surprising number of random strangers.
Like I said, due to fine/wispy hair I really can’t pull off long hair. Sometimes I’m worried that my shorter hair will look too “soccer mom-ish” or poofy, but my stylist is always honest and blunt and tells me if she doesn’t think something will work for me. That’s one of the main reasons why I don’t mind paying more for cuts ($40, instead of $15-20 at Supercuts or whatnot). I don’t mind getting a trim done at a lower-end place, or even getting a mediocre cut. I’ve never had a horrible haircut, but too many times in the past I’ve had inexpensive haircuts that probably were a decent cut - on someone else - but just totally didn’t work for me.
Mine is thick and wavy so it’s hard to mess it up. The Supercuts women just give me a basic layered all over short cut and I’m done.
Yep. Female, hair to the middle of my back. Zero cuts or styles a year (I trim the ends when needed). All the cost is in shampoo/conditioner, which I go through pretty quick because of all of the hair, but it’s probably not more than a hundred bucks or so a year (nothing fancy or from a salon).
I intentionally went with the long hair, not because of the cost of haircuts, but because I could never find anyone who could do it right. That, and like you said, it is actually a lot lower maintenance than some shorter styles. I haven’t owned a hair dryer in years - which really cuts down the styling time in the mornings!
Hair cut every 2 months or so at $20 each, incl tip
Highlights redone about every other haircut, extra $20, incl tip
Huge bottles of whatever is on sale at the salon, plus 20% discount: about 10 dollars.
Hair goo: maaaybe $10 dollars a year (I have short hair, and don’t use a whole lot)
Total: $200 per year.
Male, 20