Anonymous wrote:Learn to cut your own hair.

Anonymous wrote:I have curly hair with different curl types over my head. Havign someone who doesn't understand curly hair cut it results in terrible cuts. I now pay $135 (up from $115 last year) for a dry cut - which is better for curly hair - no shampoo, no styling. I go twice a year. So worth it. Those cuts last forever because they're well done in the first place and once curly hair is past the shoulders, it's not noticeable when it's been growing for a while. So I get my hair cut 2x/year for, now, $270 plus tips. I'm ok with that. I don't leave the salon sad about the way I look.

But if I had straight hair or short hair that quickly looks sloppy if not trimmed regularly, etc.? I'd be looking for Hair Cuttery Prices.

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Anonymous wrote:I am vain; I will eat ramen noodles, drive a used car, wear thrift store clothes, but I will go every month for a trim/highlight/blow out (about $200 to include tip, sometimes products) and manicure & pedicure every two weeks (about $150).

No apologies and I’d spend my last few bucks on this self-care - so relaxing and enjoyable for me.

I agree. My hair is important to me. I can't believe some people are so cheap.

Imagine what people are saying about you and how pathetic it is that you value you hair so much!

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Anonymous wrote:I am vain; I will eat ramen noodles, drive a used car, wear thrift store clothes, but I will go every month for a trim/highlight/blow out (about $200 to include tip, sometimes products) and manicure & pedicure every two weeks (about $150).

No apologies and I’d spend my last few bucks on this self-care - so relaxing and enjoyable for me.

I agree. My hair is important to me. I can't believe some people are so cheap.

PP said she would be willing to eat ramen in order to get her hair done. More power to her (and I love top ramen), but if you really feel the same way then aren't you kind of cheap too? Top ramen is basically the epitome of going cheap on food.

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Anonymous wrote:I am vain; I will eat ramen noodles, drive a used car, wear thrift store clothes, but I will go every month for a trim/highlight/blow out (about $200 to include tip, sometimes products) and manicure & pedicure every two weeks (about $150).

No apologies and I’d spend my last few bucks on this self-care - so relaxing and enjoyable for me.

I agree. My hair is important to me. I can't believe some people are so cheap.

Other people would think the two of you are cheap for spending so little on other things. Everyone has different priorities.

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Anonymous wrote:I am vain; I will eat ramen noodles, drive a used car, wear thrift store clothes, but I will go every month for a trim/highlight/blow out (about $200 to include tip, sometimes products) and manicure & pedicure every two weeks (about $150).

No apologies and I’d spend my last few bucks on this self-care - so relaxing and enjoyable for me.

I agree. My hair is important to me. I can't believe some people are so cheap.

I used to be this way. My hair was the one thing I would splurge on because it was the one thing I wore every day, so I was going to the most expensive people in the nicest salons. Then two things happened. One is that I have a teen with super curly hair that doesn't trust most stylists, so she started cutting her own. Two is the pandemic, and it was so hard to get appointments, I gave up and started cutting and coloring my own. Then I decided I could not actually tell the difference between what I did and what the stylist was doing. I've been watching the stylists for years, so I basically know what they were doing, and I mocked it. I get compliments all the time on my haircut -- it's just not that hard to cut shoulder length hair with some layers and angles. I do splurge on expensive conditioner and hair care products, though -- that, along with a good blow-dryer and styling tool, seems to make more difference for me than the cut. It's not even about the money for me -- it's more about the inconvenience of having to make an appointment, take time off work on one of the few days that my stylist works, get up there, get parking, sit there for two hours, etc. Whereas I can do it in my bathroom whenever I have a spare hour and watch TV or answer emails while the color sets.

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Anonymous wrote:I've stopped going.
I was going every 8 weeks like clockwork for $80. Then she went to $90, $100, $120. All since Covid.

I actually had my teen daughter do my last 2 cuts after she watched some You Tube videos. I can't tell any difference from the $100 plus tip haircuts.

That's awesome! For everyone else reading this it's much easier than you think it is. I've been cutting my own hair since covid and it looks exactly how they cut it at the salon.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought of this thread today when I went to make an appt with my stylist.

She's great, have been going to her for years and would love to continue getting my hair cut by her but she recently moved her studio. When I went to make the appt, I see that she now charges $250 for a 1 hour appt to cut hair. That was $100 more than the last time she cut my hair. I can't. I just can't. As much as I loved her as a stylist and want to support her, I just can't justify a $250 hair cut.

Because it is insane.

+1. She’s going to lose a lot of customers. That’s just for a shampoo, cut and blowout?

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Anonymous wrote:I am vain; I will eat ramen noodles, drive a used car, wear thrift store clothes, but I will go every month for a trim/highlight/blow out (about $200 to include tip, sometimes products) and manicure & pedicure every two weeks (about $150).

No apologies and I’d spend my last few bucks on this self-care - so relaxing and enjoyable for me.

I agree. My hair is important to me. I can't believe some people are so cheap.

I used to be this way. My hair was the one thing I would splurge on because it was the one thing I wore every day, so I was going to the most expensive people in the nicest salons. Then two things happened. One is that I have a teen with super curly hair that doesn't trust most stylists, so she started cutting her own. Two is the pandemic, and it was so hard to get appointments, I gave up and started cutting and coloring my own. Then I decided I could not actually tell the difference between what I did and what the stylist was doing. I've been watching the stylists for years, so I basically know what they were doing, and I mocked it. I get compliments all the time on my haircut -- it's just not that hard to cut shoulder length hair with some layers and angles. I do splurge on expensive conditioner and hair care products, though -- that, along with a good blow-dryer and styling tool, seems to make more difference for me than the cut. It's not even about the money for me -- it's more about the inconvenience of having to make an appointment, take time off work on one of the few days that my stylist works, get up there, get parking, sit there for two hours, etc. Whereas I can do it in my bathroom whenever I have a spare hour and watch TV or answer emails while the color sets.

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Anonymous wrote:I have curly hair with different curl types over my head. Havign someone who doesn't understand curly hair cut it results in terrible cuts. I now pay $135 (up from $115 last year) for a dry cut - which is better for curly hair - no shampoo, no styling. I go twice a year. So worth it. Those cuts last forever because they're well done in the first place and once curly hair is past the shoulders, it's not noticeable when it's been growing for a while. So I get my hair cut 2x/year for, now, $270 plus tips. I'm ok with that. I don't leave the salon sad about the way I look.

But if I had straight hair or short hair that quickly looks sloppy if not trimmed regularly, etc.? I'd be looking for Hair Cuttery Prices.

I have chin length curly hair and have had so many bad or inconsistent hair cuts over the years that I've given up on professional stylists. I now go to Hair Cuttery to get a blunt straight across cut for the length and cut my own curly layers at home.

I have fine, curly, very low density hair and so so many stylists seem to think that thinning shears are the way to go on my hair. I will walk out of the salon where you can see my scalp through my hair and my curls just poof because they have been thinned and will no longer clump. If I go to a curly specialist, they are usually used to denser hair and cut chunky layers that result in see through dangly, scraggly ends. None of it is good.

It's not about being cheap, but about not wanting to have a terrible haircut for 4-6 mo while the catastrophe on my head grows out only to play the hair stylist lotto again.