Hair dressers

Yes I have Sabre. Many years ago I used to have my hair done at a top stylist in central London but could no longer afford that when we moved away from London and got a mortgage. Until a couple of years ago I was very loyal to a hairdresser with a salon in a rather expensive area but his prices went up and up and I was also driving 20 miles or so each way to get my hair cut. So I reluctantly tried some local hairdressers and have now found one which is much cheaper and does a reasonable (though not such a stylish) job. I pay a bit more than you do as my stylist has just been 'upgraded'!

They sure know how to charge.
I buy a L'Oreal highlighter and apply it once every six weeks myself.
Being very fair haired I haven't gone grey as such more a pale version of what I once was. The highlighter just conditions it more and leaves it a little healthier looking.

Hi Sabre i totally agree that some hair dressers hnow how to charge the last time i paid to have my hair done was last year, it cost over £80 for a cut and highlights even though to start with it was suppost to be £50 aparently because i have long hair they has to use more colour that they didnt tell me about to start with. I have changed to useing the local beuty collage it costs me £12 for the lot. It just takes longer. a lot longer!!

I have to add also that I didn't go to a top salon in London which I know would have cost a fortune but to a little village salon.

When I first decided that I could not afford a London salon one of the girls that worked there and did my hair was leaving so she used to drive over to my house and do my hair at home for a fraction of the cost. We eventually moved away and I was very sad to have to find someone else at a much higher cost.

I pay £30 for a cut and blow dry - a colour would be another £40 and I just can't afford it..my silver hihglights are becoming more noticeable,,think I'll just have to grow old disgracefully :)

Absolutely. I go for a grade one or two home trim with my Remington. Costs £30 for around 5 years' worth of fortnightly trims :)

I always cut and trim my husband's hair G-Man. It looks ok and he's happy with it as like he say's "he doesn't have to look at himself". I suppose there is some logic in what he says and it saves about £80 a year.

No, I haven't so far, Sabre. I just got my hair coloured and trimmed today in my local salon (local, in the sense that it's in our small market town, but it's part of a bigger chain) and it cost £78, and that was with my discount card which gives me 20% off. The prices have gone up hugely in the last couple of years. I really hope I can continue to find the money to do this as my hair is very thick, very long and very rebellious, and would be a nightmare to do at home! Not to mention the mess of having it Gothic red! :-)

I must admit I get annoyed at having to pay the same price to have my long hair trimmed as someone who has a proper style cut as I just literally have the length ends trimmed off, but they just seem to have the one price for a 'cut', regardless of how long it takes. I am seriously thinking of getting a local mobile hairdresser just to do the trim, and so avoid that bit of the salon bill in future.

I'm sure they have upped the prices Fruity because I have gone to the same hairdressers for year's but had a bad experience when they put my neck on to the cold bowl and my neck had a spasm so I changed hairdressers but then found the one in my own village, although very nice and friendly, was costing me a fortune. Then when I got home my husband didn't like it. That's men for you, you go to all that trouble for them and all he could say was "you can do it better yourself". Grrrrrrrrrrr Why do I bother ?

Going to hairdressers is so pricey, Sabre!! I am a beauty nails and holistic therapist. I used to work in salons many years ago then went onto managing and then teaching. Now i am self employed and have been for 10 years and my clients would love for me to learn to do hair and i wish i did as i cannot believe the prices they charge!!! I missed out on that one!!! Anyway i found friends along the way and i and my friend, who is a top hair stylist charges over £100, does my hair colur and my daughter's hightlights and i do her waxing nails and tinting this has really worked out well as i also have another friend who cuts my hair and my daughter's, she also charges over £100, and i do her waxing etc so both girls do myself and my 14yr old daughter and i do them. This arrangement has worked well in the last 10 years. I have saved money in the long run and and so have both my friends.

I would recommend if you know or hear of a mobile hairdresser give them a try, Sabre. You will hear through the grapevine i also think young hairdressers that leave salon to have a family do end up taking on homers as they call it would be grateful to come out to doing mobile hairdressing or you can always go to their house while they fit it in with kids routine... Ask about, its getting very popular...

I used to hate going to the salon, apart from the cost which was horrendous, I got so fed up with the hairdresser constantly going off to talk to clients on the phone or check on somebody else while I was left sitting there. A couple of times it took so long I got a bloody parking ticket to add insult to injury!

I now have it done by a friend in the village, at my house or hers. It costs a quarter of what I used to pay and I get individual attention.

Not being a lady but a bloke my wife cuts my hair number 2 all over neat tidy and free what a saving////