$65 for a cut, shampoo, and shave.
And for some reason every female hairdresser I’ve ever had has always made it a point to both poke me in the back with their boobs a couple of times and always do that leaning over, showing off the girls “let me make sure I got your sideburns even” move from the front.
Do they think I’m some sort of pushover? Well they’re right… 
About £70 ($130+) in the UK - but now that I’m in the Dominican Republic it’s more like £15 ($25+) - and that’s at a posh joint. The standard price would be a quarter of that, and local women have their hair done at least once a week, while I go about every two months so I suppose it evens out.
[mild hijack] While I’m impressed by the transformations that those hairdressers achieve on makeover shows, I’m still looking for one to find a way of making a subject look good with a realistic low-maintenance style - those primped and blow-dried styles only last a few hours, in my experience. If they get a frizzy-haired girl and blow-dry her hair all straight and glossy I think “cop out” - they should help her find a good style that’s practical for her hair and that she can go on using in her real life well after the cameras are gone.[/mild hijack]
If you can afford it, send her to Nick - not for every haircut, but for a really great once-in-a-lifetime treat that she’ll always remember and think you are a hero for sending her.
For my budget, my hairdresser is a little pricey, but I don’t get my nails done, get massages, buy deisgner labels, etc. so I look at my hair as my one personal indulgence.
She will feel SUPERSEXY with her new doo and will want to DOO-DOO-DOO you, too.
This thread has shocked me! I’ve never paid more than $11.99!
My wife and I cut my hair now, but I did go 2 months ago with a coupon(Bo-rics). People really pay $25+ for a haircut?
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Oy. When I had long hair, I would pay ~$30 including tip for a shampoo, cut, and dry. Now that I have short hair, I pay $12 for a haircut at the local barber shop. You know it’s a good shop, it has taxidermy. Every once in a while, I’ll spring for a shave, too.
My wife gets a Shampoo, color, cut, and blow dry for about $50 a pop.
$19 plus tip (I figure $3 is plenty). That’s my barber’s current price.
Curiously, haircuts were substantially cheaper in Chicago than they are in Houston. I think I was paying $8 or $10 there in 1990; then I moved back to Houston and the price was $15.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to nominate your wife for What Not to Wear and then “secretly” videotape her wearing some god-awful crap, then let that annoying pair throw all her clothes away and give her money to buy new ones? Plus, hey! she gets a new wardrobe.
God, I’d love to have Nick cut my hair. But the most I’ve ever paid (shampoo, cut and blowdry/style) was $40, at my last appointment. I do the color myself.
This is how I do mine. I run about $100 to $120 for cut and highlights, 3 or 4 times per year. The difference in cost depends on if I get the highlights just on top or if she does my whole head.
OT- I just got my highlights done and they are too light and I don’t know what to do about it.
When I had hair past my shoulders, I couldn’t get it washed and cut (even just a blunt cut) without getting the “long hair” fee levied on me. (I honestly don’t understand this, as, well, some places only charged that when it was down to my elbows, while others charged it if it was past my neck.) I haven’t had a haircut that was under $30 in a while; last time I had a $15 haircut was when I went to the Aveda school’s salon in Tallahassee. As long as you know what you want and the student understands what you want and the teacher understands what you want, you’ll get a good haircut for pretty damned cheap.
The most I’ve ever paid is around $150 for a cut and color (My hair is short and spiky, darkish brown naturally and I get white-blond tipping done on it–takes forever and at least two lightening cycles to get it as light as I want it). I do this maybe twice a year, and get a regular haircut (same stylist, no color) about three other times a year for about $60.
It’s one of my only vanities–my clothes are mostly jeans, T-shirts, and hoodies, and I don’t own any makeup (wouldn’t know what to do with it if I had any!) I don’t do anything with my hair other than wash it and put some stuff in it to make it spiky. So spread out over the course of a year, $480 for hair stuff only works out to about $40/month. I can live with that.
About $40 tip included. It would have been in the low $30s for wash and cut at Penney’s. I’m a Supercuts woman.
It was over $80, I know that. Just a wash and cut.
I don’t trust Supercuts or most other lower-cost chains anymore. I don’t trust the $5.99 haircut on Guadalupe. I have curly hair, and WHY is it that EVERY time I try to spend less than $40-including-tip on a haircut I get someone whose idea of a trim on medium-length curly hair is an inch? :eek:
And then they say: “Are you sure you don’t want this layered?” :eek: :eek: (This makes me look like a puffball. Srsly folks.)
And then they say: “Have you ever considered bangs?” :eek: :eek: :eek:
Or maybe: “You want a wash AND a cut, are you sure?” WTF mate. You seriously think you can cut this stuff dry? I had one person try when I was about fourteen. It took me YEARS to grow it out. She started literally attacking my hair with a pair of scissors, just cutting wedges out of it. I don’t know why my normally intelligent mother did not beat her with a floor lamp; possibly she was only shocked.
I hate spending that much money, but it’s once every three months at most and I actually have found that spending more money gets me a better cut. That $80 cut I had was the best I’ve ever had.
These days I go to Fantastic Sam’s to get a scissor cut. Pretty cheap. But 35 years ago when I wanted my hair cut longer and not with clippers I went to a salon in Pasadena and paid $15. That’s about what it costs me now with a tip. But all those years ago it would be like, what, $60 today? I’d say screw it now and just get a buzz cut, but my head is so round I’d be in grave danger anywhere near a bowling alley.
I’m a guy so $30.00. It usually costs me $20.00. My hair looks best short so it is an easy haircut at my local barbershop.
I was going to say $20, but now that I think of it, I got my hair cut at “A Little Off The Top”, a lingerie hair cutting salon in Vegas, of course. The hair stylists weren’t all that awesome, but they gave you a good shampoo/head massage. I think it probably cost $50 or so. I can’t find a link for it (There’s a place with the same name that gives discounts for kids, so I suspect it’s a different place now). The haircut was actually pretty good.
I wouldn’t pay a whole lot for just a hair cut. When I go to the salon, though, it’s to get my hair colored, which is about a 2-3 hour process* (see why I only do it 3 times a year?) and I just get the cut at the same time. I don’t ever go to just get my hair cut. It feels too much like throwing away money.
*but it’s just *so sexy! *
I cut my own hair. No reallly. I get compliments on it. I do have some else do the trim in the back. I can’t remember what I paid the last time I went In for an actual haircut. Probably 30 or 40 bucks back then. The most was probably when I changed from dyed black to bleach blonde which was complicated, of course, so I think it was about 80 plus tip. I can’t imagine 200 plus dollers for a haircut.
I only paid 50 for my tattoo and that doesn’t grow out 
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I spent £70 last time I was at the salon. Cut and colour. That’s the most I’ve ever spent.