I need to vent

[Anonymous]

I went to a new hairdresser (my second time with her, first time all was ok) to get the roots toucher up. I have blond highlights. I asked her to just add few highlights around my face to lighten up the roots. She did add maybe 10 foils and then colored the roots.

She charged me $350 including $170 for partial highlights. I paid.

I came home and what i see is I have 5-6 highlights on only one side of my hairline. I have brass spotsat the base of the temples. It looks as if a child done a coloring. I was dissapointed - 350 is a lot of money for me.

By the way she is an owner of he salon with agreat reputation. I let her know that I have unever highlights very politely and she said come back and I will add them.

Do you encounter situations like that and what would you have done? The problem is that I need to take another afteroon off from eork to get this done and I know it is not going ot be fixed. So dissaointing. I feel like prices are so inflated in this area for a below mediocore service. I dont minf paying for a good stylist but i hate to be felt liek that.

[Anonymous]

The cost of hair has jumped the shark. I believe stylists deserve a living wage but the 30 minutes it spends to cut my hair into the same thing every time cannot possibly be worth $150 and certainly the 20 minutes it takes for them to put the color in my hair is not worth $250. I get I am paying for their expertise from years of practice, but I don’t make anywhere near $300/hr. I wish I had an alternative. If I could but my own hair I definitely would. I’ll cut my kids’ hair until they need something better.

I feel like we all realized how much we love our stylists during Covid but nobody else got a pay rise like they did.

[Anonymous]

Totally agree

[Anonymous]

It’s ridiculous. I stopped going. I still take my elderly parent to the salon, and all the stylists look like fake maga people, almost clownish.
And the money I see changing hands! Good lord they make a ton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cost of hair has jumped the shark. I believe stylists deserve a living wage but the 30 minutes it spends to cut my hair into the same thing every time cannot possibly be worth $150 and certainly the 20 minutes it takes for them to put the color in my hair is not worth $250. I get I am paying for their expertise from years of practice, but I don’t make anywhere near $300/hr. I wish I had an alternative. If I could but my own hair I definitely would. I’ll cut my kids’ hair until they need something better.

I feel like we all realized how much we love our stylists during Covid but nobody else got a pay rise like they did.

Haircut price factors in opportunity cost - if they are taking time to cut your hair when they could be doing a more expensive service for someone else then the cost of the cut will reflect that