Jonathan’s (Beverly Hills, CA) charge $400 (if Jonathan is the artist). His staff gets $225. I thought this thread was to bash Presidential candidate Edwards?
A woman’s haircut and style with an experienced stylist in a decent salon in this area runs $40-45. With tips, you’re looking at $50-55. I just got my hair cut very short, I’ll probably be paying this about every four weeks. It’s worth it, my hair is fantastic looking.
I won’t pay for my hair to be colored in a salon. The last time I did was seven or so years ago and was upwards of $80 for a single process all over color.
Edwards’s $400 haircut was because the stylist came out to his campaign plane, I thought?
**fishbicycle ** - hair styling angel. I’ve had the same experience before.
Well, it’s a year later and we’re finally booked (for the last weekend in August)! 
This is in tandem with our other major New York excursion, though I should note that Nick’s prices have gone up since I wrote the OP (he now charges $500).
As promised, I’ll keep everyone posted (including pix, hopefully). 
Thanks!
The only time I’ve ever paid for a haircut after I moved out of my parent’s house was in Brazil, where I think it was $10R (Reals, pronounced hey EYES) for the haircut and $5R for the straight razor shave. so about $7.
Around $100 for cut, from the top stylist at my local Toni & Guy salon. I don’t usually get it blow dried because my hair is pretty thick and it adds an extra half hour for something I really don’t care about.
I only pay that much once or twice a year though. In between I cheat by trimming my own split ends and getting frequent fringe trims for free to keep my haircut looking new-ish.
Just cut & style? $75 before tip.
Too bad you couldn’t talk her into a day at the spa or something that would relax her for hours. The bad thing about paying that for a cut is that unless you can afford keep it up, the next person will just jack up his work. It’ll look good for about 6 or 8 weeks. ;(
$300, but that includes tip and some expensive purple streaks. It looked awesome, but I won’t be doing that again. Way too much money–and TIME. The whole process took more than two hours.
I made up for the cost, though–my next haircut was a $13 one at one of those chain hair places.
Normally 15 to 20 max bucks depending on Tip.
and I get a Haircut AND a shampoo wash. Oh yeah!
Never paid more than $15, and that was a one-time thing when I couldn’t use my normal barber. I usually pay $10-$12, and don’t usually tip. I’m not into fashionable haircuts and don’t have anyone I need to impress, so your basic haircut does fine for me. The thing that throws me about haircut prices is how much of that is actual haircutting, and how much is actually styling. I’ve always gone to traditional barbershops. Do any women out there just get their hair cut without styling, and how much does it cost?
Highest ever was $20 with tip. My current barber is $12 plus the $3 I throw in, so $15 total.
The Haircut is a week from tomorrow! Now I just have to figure out how to use our (new) digital camera…
A plain hair cut is an example of something that just doesn’t get any better as the price exceeds about $40 or so. And I usually go to the Hair Butchery so it’s more like $25.
If you’re paying $400, then what you’re really doing is paying $40 for the hair cut and $360 for a 45 minute date with the stylist. And it probably won’t even end with sex. What a rip-off.
How coincidental, I just got back from my every-seven-weeks visit to my hairdresser. I have hair that varies in length from bra-strap length to waist length. I get it cut, colored and highlighted.
$200, including tip.
Yea, it’s mega expensive, but I don’t buy clothes often, I don’t wear a lot of make-up, I don’t like uncomfortable (read, high-heeled) shoes, I really am not much of a girly-girl in any other way. So, it’s my one girl expense.
I usually spend about $80 at my hairdresser for cut and color; knock about $25-30 off if I don’t get my hair cut. I go every 6 weeks. My husband had his hair cut there once, and said it was the best haircut he’s ever had, end of story, but he doesn’t like paying that much for a haircut. :smack: So he goes back to BoRics instead.
I had a serious professional do a haircut for me in high school but hell if I can recall what I paid then. That was a long time ago, too.
The stylist I went to for color work before my current stylist charged about $90 for just color. (No highlighting, cellophane, anything like that.) Her work was great, but my current stylist was highly recommended to me and I can get a haircut too for that price. Plus my current stylist has a great sense of my hair and what would look good; I constantly get compliments on the cut, and typically people think my color is natural. (Those who know me well enough to know that I dye it think it’s a great color.)
Almost forgot - I adore Nick Arrojo and think that if she wants to do that as an extra-special treat for herself, she should go for it. Then take a picture and see if you can reproduce it later. 
A couple of times a year, my office has a hairdresser come to the office on Saturday. She charges $1000 for the whole day, and everyone who comes in gets whatever they want done to their hair.
I once had the whole deal…shampoo, conditioner, haircut, styling. We figure it took her about three hours, and since she stayed about six hours, it was a $500 treatment.
The office picks up the tab. The amount of good will it creates in the employees is priceless.
I missed that this was a resurrected thread, as well as the announcement that the haircut was very soon! I hope she has a great time.
Most I’ve spent on a cut (plus colour etc) was around AUS$250 - it was a magic cut, and lasted me a good 3 months, but I’ve stopped going there because he’s an ‘artiste’ and has no concept of customer service.
I would say though that while she spends $500 on this cut now, if you take the right photos etc, it should be easy enough for a lesser cutter to copy the style /shape etc. Obviously the finer points will be lost, but the general shape which he recommends for her face is the advice she is paying a lot for - which she gets to keep.
Hope she has fun!
A barber shop a mile from my house has 6 chairs. tTey are usually quite busy. They charge 7 dollars per cut. Leave a ten and you are over tipping.
I think I’ve mentioned here before that the same guy has cut my hair since I was twelve or thirteen. I’m now 40. Currently he charges a whopping $12 ( this in the SF Bay Area, home of the overpriced everything ), working out of a little in-law apartment studio. I tip $8 for a total of $20, largely because I get my hair cut only every 5-8 months, going from fairly short to fairly long and back again with the seasons.
Low maintanence? Oh my, yes. Style horse? Most definitely not :p.