For the ladies......hair venting, again!
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For the ladies......hair venting, again!
Hey all, with the economy as it is and budgets stretched as tight as can be, I wish hairdressers would realize that customers are just trying to make ends meet. I don't want to go back to cutting my own hair again (did that for over 2 years, only because I had lost trust in this profession!) but I would like to get a quality haircut without the blow-dry. But each time you even ask if this is possible, the hairdresser picks up the blow-dryer and almost bends your arm to let her dry it for you. Of course if you agree, your total bill is much higher and her tip is higher.
But I want to say - keep this up and you won't have me for a customer until things turn around!
It would just be nice if professionals such as hairdressers would realize - okay, my customers still want me cutting their hair, they just want to save $.
Put down the blow-dryer!
Thanks. Just had to vent. I'm cutting costs all over the place on our budget and I'm sitting here typing, brushing aside overgrown bangs that are bugging me. Ready to take scissors in hand. LOL Then I think, no I need a decent, "real" haircut. But it will be expensive if I make an appt!
Sigh....
Mary
But I want to say - keep this up and you won't have me for a customer until things turn around!
It would just be nice if professionals such as hairdressers would realize - okay, my customers still want me cutting their hair, they just want to save $.
Put down the blow-dryer!
Thanks. Just had to vent. I'm cutting costs all over the place on our budget and I'm sitting here typing, brushing aside overgrown bangs that are bugging me. Ready to take scissors in hand. LOL Then I think, no I need a decent, "real" haircut. But it will be expensive if I make an appt!
Sigh....
Mary
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For guys I think it is easier just to cut their hair themselves. Get an appointment with a really good stylist once to find a style you like then memorize the finger guides in the back. stretching visits between haircuts by months is kind of silly when you think about it. Only takes a minute to snip here and there once a week.
There are lower maintenance styles that some women could easily maintain indefinitely themselves. Its actually easier cutting hair when its dry.
There are lower maintenance styles that some women could easily maintain indefinitely themselves. Its actually easier cutting hair when its dry.
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Kathy - my hairdresser's fee includes blow-dry, that's $38. With tip, it comes to $46. I tip 20%, rounding up that 20 cents for each dollar.
But $46 is a LOT of money right now!
When if you book the appt. the inexpensive way, you get a wash and cut, for $30. I tip $6 in this case. Or TRY to tip $6.......
This saves me $10. But in between making the appt. with the receptionist who understands you have a tight budget and sitting in your hairdresser's chair, who has dollar signs in her eyes, and her hand poised on the blow-dryer, you cave.
And then pay the extra $10, to have what your hairdresser's pushing for - the whole deal.
If this happens one more time I'm going to do the math for her. Truly I am. I will pull out a $10 bill from my pocket for proof - this is how much I'll save today if you don't dry my hair!
It's just the point and a racket, I tell ya.....when I'm trying to keep services such as these and cut out unnecessary extras (I don't need the blow-dry!).
I probably didn't make my original post clear enough. LOL
*Edit* Nimbus, I had a hairdresser once who cut my hair dry and it was probably the best cut I've had in decades, it was a point cut bob and she said it had to be done while dry, so she could see each actual section as she point cut the layers. But then after a year she scalped me, when I was just trying to change a few things about the cut. That's when I lost my trust in this profession. Which led me to cutting my own hair (we have mirrored closet doors off our bathroom, full length and folding, so I can angle them such a way to see the entire back of my head. I did okay I think for a few years, saving myself a BUNDLE!).
But $46 is a LOT of money right now!
When if you book the appt. the inexpensive way, you get a wash and cut, for $30. I tip $6 in this case. Or TRY to tip $6.......
This saves me $10. But in between making the appt. with the receptionist who understands you have a tight budget and sitting in your hairdresser's chair, who has dollar signs in her eyes, and her hand poised on the blow-dryer, you cave.
And then pay the extra $10, to have what your hairdresser's pushing for - the whole deal.
If this happens one more time I'm going to do the math for her. Truly I am. I will pull out a $10 bill from my pocket for proof - this is how much I'll save today if you don't dry my hair!
It's just the point and a racket, I tell ya.....when I'm trying to keep services such as these and cut out unnecessary extras (I don't need the blow-dry!).
I probably didn't make my original post clear enough. LOL
*Edit* Nimbus, I had a hairdresser once who cut my hair dry and it was probably the best cut I've had in decades, it was a point cut bob and she said it had to be done while dry, so she could see each actual section as she point cut the layers. But then after a year she scalped me, when I was just trying to change a few things about the cut. That's when I lost my trust in this profession. Which led me to cutting my own hair (we have mirrored closet doors off our bathroom, full length and folding, so I can angle them such a way to see the entire back of my head. I did okay I think for a few years, saving myself a BUNDLE!).
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Re: For the ladies......hair venting, again!
I know that you can just say at my hair salon you just want your hair cut, you don't need it blown dry. I'm sure that there is pressure though from some stylists to blow dry your hair while you're still sitting there.
I get my hair cut and colored every 6 - 7 weeks for $70 with a blow dry, plus tip. I couldn't do the coloring on my own anymore with the non-permanent hair color. It wasn't covering the grey as well. My stylist uses semi-permanent color.
I started getting my hair colored by him last year, just in time for the increase in gas prices and now the whole economy going to pot. GREAT timing!
I get my hair cut and colored every 6 - 7 weeks for $70 with a blow dry, plus tip. I couldn't do the coloring on my own anymore with the non-permanent hair color. It wasn't covering the grey as well. My stylist uses semi-permanent color.
I started getting my hair colored by him last year, just in time for the increase in gas prices and now the whole economy going to pot. GREAT timing!

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I color my own hair now. But I used to get it done too. That total bill was over $80! Now my color costs anywhere between $6 to $8 a box/color session. If I didn't have those mirrored louvered doors I don't think I could color my hair though. I always tell my husband - don't ever get rid of those doors! LOL I have a system now, I do vertical rows on the back of my head (not what the box recommends). I start at the crown and go down, every 3/4 inch or so across. To this day, I have never skipped a section. That was my fear, that I'd have a wide strip of gray hair in the back, LOL. But because I do the vertical rows of color, I get every section with the dye. Each time I almost say outloud - I'm saving myself $ each time I color!
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I color, cut & hilite my hair every six weeks. $120 for me (I get what they call dimensional color). I went back to work fulltime so I could spend this on myself. I refuse to be gray!!!!!!!!!!! I can't color my hair myself. My hair ended up being so brassy looking and dried out like a piece of straw before a month was over. I'll give up something else before i give up my hairdresser
It's hard times for many people, including hairdressers who don't see all of that money that we pay them. If they're not salaried they have booth rental, electricity, products such as shampoo & conditioner, tools such as their scissors (which are not cheap at all), combs, brushes, blowdryers, flatirons. Most of these the hairdresser has to purchase on their own.

It's hard times for many people, including hairdressers who don't see all of that money that we pay them. If they're not salaried they have booth rental, electricity, products such as shampoo & conditioner, tools such as their scissors (which are not cheap at all), combs, brushes, blowdryers, flatirons. Most of these the hairdresser has to purchase on their own.
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CM - I hear ya. But I can't afford to cave on that. I only work 20 hours a week. Wish I could work full time though. I'm thinking the best thing would be not even walk in the door. LOL Then that way I'm not disappointing them with my $30 fee instead of $38. My point is they should be happy to get at least $30 out of this customer!
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I was correct in not even trying to walk into my hairdresser salon with this request. Via phone - I asked if they offered a wash and cut, w/o blow-dry, explaining that the economy is so bad right now and our family budget's is extremely tight. The receptionist's reply?
"Yes, we caaaaaaaaaaaaan do that, we can offffffffer a wash and cut onnnnnnnnly, our norrrrrrrrmal fees range from $36 to $58......... (depending upon which hairdresser you go with apparently, mine must be at the low end of that range, LOL)." So in her head she was trying to do the math because it wasn't typed on a fee list.
I really have no idea what the price would be for a wash and cut only, for my specific hairdresser. But it's highly frowned upon. And unlike Kathy, I really don't like the way my hair looks after a blow-dry anyway, it's not the way I style it. LOL
But I got the clear impression they don't like doing this, even though the economy is in a terrible state!
I just sighed and said - well you really need to consider this, especially now.
I think I'm back to cutting my own hair again! LOL
"Yes, we caaaaaaaaaaaaan do that, we can offffffffer a wash and cut onnnnnnnnly, our norrrrrrrrmal fees range from $36 to $58......... (depending upon which hairdresser you go with apparently, mine must be at the low end of that range, LOL)." So in her head she was trying to do the math because it wasn't typed on a fee list.
I really have no idea what the price would be for a wash and cut only, for my specific hairdresser. But it's highly frowned upon. And unlike Kathy, I really don't like the way my hair looks after a blow-dry anyway, it's not the way I style it. LOL
But I got the clear impression they don't like doing this, even though the economy is in a terrible state!
I just sighed and said - well you really need to consider this, especially now.
I think I'm back to cutting my own hair again! LOL
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Haircut price update......my stylist does indeed offer an express cut - wash, cut and that's it - for $30. You have to fight for this though!
So with tip a trim for me should only be $36.
With warmer temps here I don't mind walking out with a wet head of hair, if it's just been trimmed.
Hey gals, here's something I thought you'd like to read, MSNBC rated shampoos, according to readers' reviews - best and worst. Surprised Neutragena wasn't among the best. It's pricey, it's almost $6 a bottle but it removes built up shampoo and makes your hair shine. It's also great to use the day before coloring your hair. The color grabs better after using this shampoo (so built up shampoo and conditions are not on your hair when you color).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918222/
(scroll down to see links for hairstyles, conditioners, etc.).
So with tip a trim for me should only be $36.
With warmer temps here I don't mind walking out with a wet head of hair, if it's just been trimmed.
Hey gals, here's something I thought you'd like to read, MSNBC rated shampoos, according to readers' reviews - best and worst. Surprised Neutragena wasn't among the best. It's pricey, it's almost $6 a bottle but it removes built up shampoo and makes your hair shine. It's also great to use the day before coloring your hair. The color grabs better after using this shampoo (so built up shampoo and conditions are not on your hair when you color).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918222/
(scroll down to see links for hairstyles, conditioners, etc.).
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Miss Mary wrote:Hey gals, here's something I thought you'd like to read, MSNBC rated shampoos, according to readers' reviews - best and worst. Surprised Neutragena wasn't among the best. It's pricey, it's almost $6 a bottle but it removes built up shampoo and makes your hair shine. It's also great to use the day before coloring your hair. The color grabs better after using this shampoo (so built up shampoo and conditions are not on your hair when you color).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918222/
(scroll down to see links for hairstyles, conditioners, etc.).
lol - I'm not gonna tell you what I pay for shampoo Mary!! But since I cut and color my own hair I guess it equals out

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Re: For the ladies......hair venting, again!
I like just a haircut that I don't have to mess with as I have no time, a $8 cut does me fine, but I could kill the old man-he made me go get a perm because he was tired of my straight hair, so I had to go waste $50 for a curly frigging perm-that was before Christmas and I STILL look like I poked my finger in a light socket, sigh. Then he tells me I have a lot of gray, I tell him he has a lot of head, he went out and bought me hair color so that was $8! I told him what a waste of money that could have gone towards a bill! He said just do it, so I did, but I told him when the roots come, let them come, I am not dying my hair again unless he grows hair 

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8 buck a bottle hair color is a bargain. Of course I was reminded that my hair now costs about $64 an inch. Then, I was reminded that my 15 inches of hair has cost around $960. Oh well, it is the price to stay young looking sorta.....MGC
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Wow, I really opened a can of worms didn't I?
Keep it up ladies (and men....he he).
Years ago I used to buy Jeri Redding Milk and Honey Shampoo (now do not make fun of that name guys!). It was the BEST shampoo! But then, like so many other products, it just disappeared from store shelves. I could never find it again........it made my hair so soft and shiny. Of course this was long before gray set in.
Then I got into Henna......LOL
A used to buy a Henna product from a supplier that sold to the public. It saved me a lot of money by "coloring" it myself. I think I mixed neutral with an auburn shade.....forget now.
Then the supplier no longer carried the Henna line.
Let's see....turned 40. My eyesight went south. Turned 41 and those dozen or less gray strands quadrupled! Like overnight! So by the time I was oh 44 or 45 I was coloring it myself to save money. In between I was letting a hairdresser rob me of my wallet.......his cuts and color were close to $100 at one time....yikes, couldn't continue on that path.
Fast forward to 2009.....now I use watered down shampoo/conditioner from my daughters' bathroom stash (since they rarely use the last inch or so). Who knows what you'll find under my sink! Then I use Nice N Easy to color every 6 weeks.
I love it when we swap hair color, cuts, styles and such.....keep 'em coming!
Keep it up ladies (and men....he he).
Years ago I used to buy Jeri Redding Milk and Honey Shampoo (now do not make fun of that name guys!). It was the BEST shampoo! But then, like so many other products, it just disappeared from store shelves. I could never find it again........it made my hair so soft and shiny. Of course this was long before gray set in.
Then I got into Henna......LOL
A used to buy a Henna product from a supplier that sold to the public. It saved me a lot of money by "coloring" it myself. I think I mixed neutral with an auburn shade.....forget now.
Then the supplier no longer carried the Henna line.
Let's see....turned 40. My eyesight went south. Turned 41 and those dozen or less gray strands quadrupled! Like overnight! So by the time I was oh 44 or 45 I was coloring it myself to save money. In between I was letting a hairdresser rob me of my wallet.......his cuts and color were close to $100 at one time....yikes, couldn't continue on that path.
Fast forward to 2009.....now I use watered down shampoo/conditioner from my daughters' bathroom stash (since they rarely use the last inch or so). Who knows what you'll find under my sink! Then I use Nice N Easy to color every 6 weeks.
I love it when we swap hair color, cuts, styles and such.....keep 'em coming!
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Re: For the ladies......hair venting, again!
Well, the problem with me is my hair is fine, and in my 40+ years I find that product makes all the difference. I find the Aveda Pure Abundance fabulous, I absolutely love it! I use the shampoo and conditioner. I also use their Phomollient foam and voluming tonic. The Phomollient is SOOOO ligthweight, yet it adds a little bounce to my hair and helps keep it from being 'flyaway'. I color my hair every 5-6 weeks. Revolon Colorist works best for me, the Loreal makes my hair too soft and it won't do anything. Hair spray.....I need a touch of that on my crown and bangs, but too much hair spray and my hair goes flat 

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Re: For the ladies......hair venting, again!
Since we are on the issue of hair care lol.....how often do you ladies wash your hair? Every day or every other day? I wash mine everyday and a friend of mine fusses at me - she said it's bad and I should wash every other day!
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