What do you pay for a haircut/color or both?

[SaraMc]

Ok, Im a leo. I refuse to skimp on my hair.. or at least I used to before I had my son
Just a cut is $50 ( I still do that just not as often) and colour was 140 because my hair was highlighted ect. Now I do the colour myself with Loreal Coloure Expert.
My hairdresser is great though, she knows that the salon is expensive and every other time I get it cut I book a "blowdry and style" for $25 but she "trims" my bangs Saves a bit there.

 

[eh24fan]

That's it - they weave the color in and use foils (you look like some strange science experiment!) Color is rubbed all over your hair - no foil needed -

Ahhhh..ok. My mom HATES foiling. She doesn't even do it all that often. She'll pull it through a cap or just paint it on. However, for me, she has foiled. LOL I told ya I'm spoiled.

When I read weave I was thinking a TOTALLY different sort of thing.

 

[My2Cinderellas]

$100 is not out of line to me. I think it is average for this area. I get a cut, highlights and all over color for $100 plus tip, but I know that is a deal compared to what some high end stylists charge. My stylist recently left the large frou-frou salon she was managing and set up her own chair as an independent. The salon was offering 25% off to her clients if they would switch to a different stylist. Out of curiousity I asked about pricing for one of the other stylists I knew there and wow - very high. Even with 25% off it was still more expensive. Not that I was even slightly interested in changing, I'll follow a stylist I like regardless of what salon they work for. My stylist had said that the salon's owner was after her to raise her prices through the roof, it was one of many reasons that she left.

 

[keishashadow]

This is why I am so THRILLED I went to Beauty School. I do my own.

Yes - cut too.... Although I will admit to teaching my tattoo'd long-hair, eyebrow pierced man how to cut the back! I hold mirror and guide him through it.

Coloring is EXPENSIVE!!! Seriously expensive....

My hair: (it's a bit more extreme now, darker dark, and lighter light) But this was taken after I decided to "treat" myself and get it done.... and they totally messed it up. I should have taken a "before" but this is the "after"

luv the hair!
I've been going to same salon for past 10 years, price has creeped up to over $100 plus tip. Annoying when the sign on the wall sez $60 for foils & cut but, I get charged additional for "extra-long hair" mine is below my shoulders, not half-way down my back (wonder what that would be called?) and another $10 for each different color. always tip a $20 and never get so much as a thank you

Which is why I'm trying out a new salon, much closer to my home. Hope I'm not sorry lol.

BTW, DH came home last summer w/world's worst haircut from Supercuts...huge chunks were missing in the back. I fixed it & have been cutting it since.

 

[shamrock30]

My last cut was $24.99, and that was at Mastercuts. She did a nice job. I've had pretty good luck there, but I'd like to start seeing the same stylist all of the time.

If anyone knows of a reasonable, non-pretentious hairstylist north of Boston, let me know.

 

[branv]

I have yet to find a stylist that I stick with (I dunno, I keep looking for one that can advise me on a good cut for my face, I'm looking for a style counselor AND a stylist ), but before tips my haircuts are always $40-$50.

Shhhh...I always use box for my color but everytime I go to get my haircut they complement my color. I just say "thank you" and don't tell them it's a home job, but it's really funny when I hear someone at another chair telling a customer how they terrible home kits are. To be fair, I'm guessing not everyone's hair can take it. L'Oreal Golden Blonde has been good to me

I have had my hair cut at the Aveda Institute School in San Antonio. The cut was decent, but it was only $15. My friend has her hair dyed for $30. If they weren't 50+ miles away I'd go there more often.

DH always had his haircut at Supercuts, until last week when I took him to my current salon of choice. The difference is there, though it's the same style, his hair is just much cleaner, "smoother" looking. Where his hair goes from longer on top to short in back, at Supercuts there was a definite visible "break", where as now it's just very gradual and unnoticeable. I think I've converted him.

 

[disneysteve]

Just a guy's opinion here, but you ladies are spending a small fortune. Fortunately, DW cuts her own hair and doesn't need coloring (yet). When the day comes when she needs to have it colored, I'm quite certain she'll do that herself, too, so just whatever a bottle of dye costs at Target.

As for me, I cut my own hair as well. So our annual spending on hair cuts is currently zero.

 

[jckdisneybound]

$120 w/ tip for Cut and Color, $200 w/ tip for Cut, Color and Highlight. Tack on my 4 hour drive from Maine to NY to actually get my hair done.

 

[CamAnd]

Cut $44 , Highlights + cut $124 , + tip. That's high end in our area.

 

[tar heel]

I get my hair colored every five weeks for $25. Every other time, I add a haircut for another $10. She was charging $20 for color when I started getting it done a couple years ago, and I told her she needed to go up. I had had my first couple of colorings done by my aunt who charged me more even though she was discounting it. I would go to my aunt, of course, but she's two hours away. I go to a one-chair salon out in the country. She blends two colors for me (my aunt came up with the recipe), and it always turns out great. A lot of my friends assume I'm getting highlights, too, but it's just that it turns out that way b/c my natural color has lots of different shades.

 

[madge]

Hello all, It may be that I am ranting because money is tight for us but I went to get a haircut and a color and my hair guy charged me 100.00!!!!!!!!! Holy!!!!! Goodness I thought that was Expensive!!! What do you guys pay for a cut and a color (NO HIGHLIGHTS) just a cut and color

cut is $18, no idea what a color costs.

 

[kissy]

I'm a hairdresser, used to work for Regis where we charged $30 for a cut, starting at $45 for all over color, starting at $70 for highlites.
Now I work out of my house, charge $10 for a cut ( $5 for kids), $50 for a cut and color. I ONLY use foils. I hate using the cap and not knowing where my highlights are going to go....not to mention the leopard spots!

 

[maggiew]

I pay $65 for a cut.

I color my own hair with haircolor that I buy at the store with coupons and on sale!!!

Maggie

 

[crisi]

I'm a hairdresser slut. Really a one cut stand sort of girl. Sometimes I splurge - my last cut was $65, and I've paid $100 for all over color plus highlights. Sometimes its me, the cheap box of color from Walgreens, and the cut from Cost Cutters for $14.

Cost Cutters can be good, or it can be horrible. If you are lucky enough to get a regular stylist who does a good job, it can work just fine. However, its certainly a no-frills sort of experience. However, you can also get people who can't hack it in a "real" salon. I cried for two days after my last Cost Cutters haircut - and probably won't go back.

I've had some luck with Cost Cutters with the "spend a decent amount to get it cut in a salon once a year - have Cost Cutters trim it up every six weeks." However, that was how I ended up in tears - to me, telling someone to "trim" should not involve anyone cutting three inches off anywhere.

Had a wonderful hairdresser with a great eye for color who did my hair for a while - we actually had a "lasting relationship" and the $40 he charged me for a foil plus all over was worth every penny - three times better than the $19 box of Loreal with Highlights at home for twice the cost. However, he left (the reason I'm such a slut - I've been dumped by too many hairdressers - just when you start to think its a long term thing, they go and move or decide to stop cutting hair or switch to limited hours during the workday).

Paying more does not guarentee a better cut or color, but does seem to up your chances of getting one. And seems to add to the perks - i.e. if I go to Cost Cutters I get a cheap cut - but no shampoo, no blow dry and style. I spend three times as much and I'll get a shampoo, head and neck massage and blow dry, herbal tea - which turns getting a haircut from a utilitarian exercise into an hour mini-pamper.

 

[bookgirl]

I have a totally basic cut so it's Super cuts for me. I usually do my own bangs at home and then go in and get a trim every 3 or 4 months. (I have it long for a while then short then back to long but I do try to keep it trimmed for healthy hair growth) As for color I either do it my self if I'm doing a total color or I pay Super cuts 25 for a highlights. My mom was a hairdresser for years and I trim hers and she sometimes trims mine but we are both totally comfortable with home coloring. I used to go to my spa for haircuts (65 dollars) but honestly supercuts is just as good with my hair type and cut.

But if I had a "style" cut I'd probably go back to my spa. Some of those more trendy and stylized cuts really do require some skill to maintain.

 

[shoes99]

I pay $60 plus tip for a cut and one step color. I have been going to this hairdresser for years.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

My cuts are $35, color is $50. My stylist is worth her weight in gold. I am a "regular" (wash & blow dry every week, color & relaxers every few months), so sometimes she throws in a "trim" for free.

I really can't manage my hair myself, so I consider it money well spent.

 

[texasthree]

I pay $37 for a haircut. Color with highlights is $60.
Plus tip.

 

[Yardbird]

$55.00 for a cut, and $55.00 for color, which I think is ridiculous. As much as I like my hairdresser, I may be looking around for another.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

I own a salon and I charge $51 and that includes the cut...for full head foil highlights I start at $71 including cut...