Fashionable Hair is Expensive!

it sounds great!
But yes, that type of stuff is soo expensive! Long hair can be super expensive in various ways and such a time waster (lol, to me only, for shampoo, conditioner, blow dry, and style, etc.), that is why I keep mine short

I bet you look great with your new cut & color! We need a picture

My normal hair cuts cost between $30-40 most of the time (I just get a trim and layers usually. I don't dye mine since I donate). My sister and mom get theirs colored on occassion though and I always think it looks cute!

My hair is short-ish now but it costs me way more than when it was long! Since it is a short style I have to get it cut a lot more often or else the style is gone and the layers grow into each other so it no longer looks good.

That is the only thing I miss about working in an expensive salon. I got my hair done as often as I wanted to, sometimes more, for only the cost of supplies. There was always a stylist wanting to try something new, so I usually has something fun going on with my hair. My fave was the black, purple and blue highlights. They could only be seen when the sunlight hit them, otherwise they just looked black.
Now it is just straight, shoulder length with bangs, and i do my own color.

I got my hair cut and highlighted this morning for $55 plus tip.

I'm glad you like yours.

Thankfully the salon here is not expensive. It is $18 for a wash, cut and style, $40 for a colour and I think about $25 for highlights. It is in the mall I work at, and they give all the mall employees 20% off.

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

I got my hair cut and highlighted this morning for $55 plus tip.

I'm glad you like yours.

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When I get mine done every 3-4 months, I get a haircut, highlight/lowlights, eyebrow wax and its $60 w/ the tip & my hair is about chin length.
$183, thats insane!

I'm glad you love yours, I hope your able to keep up the maintenance on it, doing the roots & such shouldn't be that expensive, like Pam said - about 1/2 the price or so.

I would love to dye my hair often - however, with my short cut, it's pointless to pay a fortune. I get a haircut ever 4 weeks (6 weeks max), or it's too long to stand up right. I'm paying $15 for a haircut as is, it would be another $60 for an all over color, despite the fact that I have 1-2" of hair!

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

I got my hair cut and highlighted this morning for $55 plus tip.

I'm glad you like yours.

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Originally Posted by babyharley

When I get mine done every 3-4 months, I get a haircut, highlight/lowlights, eyebrow wax and its $60 w/ the tip & my hair is about chin length.
$183, thats insane!

I'm glad you love yours, I hope your able to keep up the maintenance on it, doing the roots & such shouldn't be that expensive, like Pam said - about 1/2 the price or so.

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Whoa that is cheap!! My hair stylist is my mom's friend- and she doesn't charge that low!! do you guys get the highlights with foil or a cap? I know if ur hair is shorter and it can be done with a cap it's much cheaper and that would make sense, but still haircut AND highlights for that price is a really good deal!! Usually just the haircut is around $50, my mom's friend gives me a huge discount to like $30 but if I wanted highlights it'd probably be $130. I have dark brown hair though so I leave it the way it is as far as color goes since I am trying to reduce damage because I use heat on it a lot to straighten it.

Originally Posted by ut0pia

Whoa that is cheap!! My hair stylist is my mom's friend- and she doesn't charge that low!! do you guys get the highlights with foil or a cap? I know if ur hair is shorter and it can be done with a cap it's much cheaper and that would make sense, but still haircut AND highlights for that price is a really good deal!! Usually just the haircut is around $50, my mom's friend gives me a huge discount to like $30 but if I wanted highlights it'd probably be $130. I have dark brown hair though so I leave it the way it is as far as color goes since I am trying to reduce damage because I use heat on it a lot to straighten it.

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I get a full foil done - with highlights & lowlights, and a haircut w/ the eyebrow wax for the $60 including tip. My stylist does a great job, she's in a small town of about 1,000 people, so if she were to charge $130 for all of that, she wouldn't have any clients! I actually live 2 hours from where she is located (in my hometown) and I drive back everytime I need a haircut, its so worth it!

I'm very fortunate. I'm 51 and still a natural blonde...not a speck of gray. Well there's an eyebrow hair that is very stubborn and gray, that's not too bad. I have a friend that cuts my hair, very simple as I have very straight fine hair. I use a curling iron on my bangs, and that's it. It must be the Norwegian in me. I'm not bragging, I know that I'm very lucky and owe it to my genes. But if the day comes when the gray starts knocking, I don't think I'll do anything about it, but I'll see, may change my mind.

I agree pictures are needed!

I went to the city and I had my oldest daughter's hair cut, and red streaks put in last October It was $195 I almost fainted. She just had Grad last weekend I decided I would splurge. I took to a local hairdresser it only cost $39 . I don't know why I thought it would be cheaper at a salon in the city.

Originally Posted by babyharley

I get a full foil done - with highlights & lowlights, and a haircut w/ the eyebrow wax for the $60 including tip. My stylist does a great job, she's in a small town of about 1,000 people, so if she were to charge $130 for all of that, she wouldn't have any clients! I actually live 2 hours from where she is located (in my hometown) and I drive back everytime I need a haircut, its so worth it!

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how nice!! you're lucky to live in a small town or at least close to it

spudsmom- my grandmother is 65 and still has no gray!! I don't know how that's possible.. Her hair color is very light brown and her hair is very straight. She has some awesome genes, she's very slim and fit, has very good skin and combine that with a good sense of fashion she looks like she is in her 50s..I wish I had her genes but I doubt it because I'm twice as tall as she is (she's very petite) and my hair is totally different from hers- curly and much darker.

This is the place I go:

http://www.josephmichaels.net/

I called the salon on Friday last week to ask for a quote on a cut, colour and highlight. They wouldn't give me a quote sighting the fact that they don't quote on colour and that I would have to go down there!

I decided to call back today and talk to the manager. She asked who I saw and I told her. I was told that I was charged $85.00 for the colour and $85.00 for the highlight and the cut was not charged for.

I told her that the other place I used to go to would charge me a total of $80.00 for cut/colour/highlight and my hair was jaw length at the time. She told me that the difference is that they use a permanent colour and other places don't even if they tell you that they do. I told her that was not true and I know the difference between non-permanent and permanent hair colour (one washes out over time and the other doesn't) and that when I've had my hair professionally coloured it's always grown out.

I told her that several co-workers have recently gotten their hair cut/coloured and/or highlighted and none of them paid more than $75.00. She insists their colour is "non-permanent." I told her that I won't be getting my hair coloured at their salon anymore because of the high price compared to other places that do the same thing.

You know what she told me?

"Get your hair cut somewhere else too."

And get this... she hung up on me!!!!!

I guess it's taboo to question their prices!!!

Well there isnt a general price that everyone uses.
You will certainly see a wide range of prices for the same service, depending on where you go.

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

You know what she told me?

"Get your hair cut somewhere else too."

And get this... she hung up on me!!!!!

I guess it's taboo to question their prices!!!

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If the manager is going to be a snotty brat like that, I wouldn't go back anyway... between charging way too much and attitudes like that, you can find WAY better service elsewhere. if that's a chain of some kind, I'd go above her and let a regional person know how you were treated... honestly... that attitude was uncalled for.

Amanda

Salons are like that, they have differences in prices for no reason. Well I mean they think there is a reason such as the skill that the stylists have. So it's not really about products that they use in your hair it's more about the quality of the experience...

I have an update.

My friend was at the mall yesterday and decided to stop in at Manhattan's and get a quote on her hair to see what they would charge her.

Her hair is jet black and about waist length. She told them she was interested in a short style with a colour and 2 different colours of highlights.

They quoted her $150.00 (plus 12% tax) for everything (cut, colour, 2 highlights).

That's $25.00 less than what I paid ($183.75 with tax) to get 1/2 an inch cut off of my already short hair style. And 1 highlight more than what I got.

Now I have confirmation based on the fact that last week I paid $23.75 for a cut when all my other cuts there were $35.00, and with the quote my friend was given, that they just make up prices as they go along.

Now that I have my documentation in order and can show there is a large discrepancy between prices, I will be sending off a letter to the Better Business Bureau. Their pricing seriously needs to be looked into.