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Post by kittylady on Oct 26, 2023 17:35:36 GMT
I think the last time I had my hair cut at a hairdressers it was £26 (about $30). All they did was spray water across the bottom, trimmed the straggly ends across the bottom and I was done. It took less than five minutes from sitting in the chair to paying. Mind you, this was pre-Covid so I can't tell you how much it is now. I'm kind of letting my hair do its own thing these days and seeing how long it'll actually grow if I leave it alone.
Meanwhile Bloke went to the barbers last week and paid £12 for full haircut and eyebrow trim. Women's hairdressing is a ripoff.
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Post by imnotbitter on Oct 27, 2023 16:19:45 GMT
I'm never happy with my haircuts, even though I don't really get expensive ones, and after the last time ($85 + tip) I decided to just start doing it myself once a month. So far it's going ok, I found a great tutorial on YouTube that I plan to keep using. If I color it, I do it myself also and the last time I did it, salons kept asking who did my balayage, so I guess I did an ok job!
I used to get Botox fairly regularly but stopped, I don't know why. Probably need it again.
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Post by waterslide on Oct 31, 2023 18:08:08 GMT
Holy shit. I thought I paid a lot for the highlights in my hair last month! My stylist didn't say how much she charges an hour, but I paid about $175 for about an hour and half so it's probably $100 per hour? But I'm lucky to have thin, fine hair (lol - so lucky) so most of the process was trying to see how much it would lift and whether it was going to turn orange (which it is wont to do). I got my hair cut at the end of August and had the color done at the very beginning of October - and by then my stylist had to trim my bangs. I was so anxiety-ridden and thought I was going bald from my last 2-3 jobs, but I've been taking biotin and MSM and it's almost growing too fast, but I will take it, but I don't want to pay $80 for anything every 6-8 weeks at the moment. But yeah, the other thing is that my hair is a bit longer than chin length so that factors in as well.
And I live outside of Chicago, so you would think that would run cheaper than SoCal and Brooklyn, but it's not too far behind if at all. When I was in New York (Manhattan) last year and the year before, a lot of the restaurant prices were cheaper than crappy restaurant food in Chicago or about the same, but I'm not sure how that factors in in terms of salon services, but it sounds more expensive here for my haircut and highlights for short hair. I also live in (apparently, because I just looked) the richest county in Illinois, so let me tell you how poor that makes me feel.
@burnt_toast - I have family in southern Indiana and was down there outside Terre Haute in March and I felt like things are kind of expensive there, too. I mean, you used to be able to tell a real difference between Chicago prices. It's bizarre because my family lives amongst the rolling hills of corn but somehow still are inside a retail desert making prices kind of ridiculous.
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