I’m interested in what the going rate is for your hairdresser. I left my favorite 11 years ago as I thought she was getting too expensive and it was that time in life I was trying to cut the fat. Well, I’ve been from bad to just OK hairdressers since then. My current one, who lacks any real talent, just gave me one of the top 5 worse haircuts I’ve ever had. She only charges $25 for a cut and $65 for a cut and one tone color, which seemed to start fading after a week. I just did my own roots and I’m on week 3 with not much grey showing.
Anyway, I really trust this old stylist. She owns her own shop for years, is the ultimate professional in every way and now charges $100+ for a shampoo, cut and style. I imagine the plus means it would be $120 for my length. She charged $65 when I left. $125 for a cut and color…$200 now.
I need to get this fixed, the sooner the better. I know her work and trust her completely. I would have my color done by someone who charges less, maybe one of her new staff.
What do you pay and would you go back to an old stylist? The prodigal customer I would be.
I pay $250 including tip for a cut and color in the Boston metro area. The color varies - sometimes just base color with a glaze, other times three different foils, but I pay the same every time. I do it every three weeks because I like my hair to look exactly the same without much deviation and no gray roots showing. My view is that it’s better to pay more for good consistent work. It seems to me that $200 is a fair price for a talented stylist. I know that prices for the same service can reach $800 in LA or NYC, but IMO, there is little actual value and you’re paying for a trendy salon or well-known stylist. $200 is the sweet spot for a good cut/color by an experienced stylist.
I’m also in the Boston area, but I must be getting a bargain. I pay $185 for a cut and partial foil, including tip. My stylist does a great job with both color and cut. She paints my roots all over with the gray covering stuff, then foils the top layers with the highlights. She’s also very good at cutting curly hair and uses the Deva Curl line of products.
I have to do this once a month now because I am so old, so I’m glad I’m not in LA or NYC.
It may depend where you live. Some places with a higher cost of living may be higher. I pay 125+ tip for color, cut, and blow dry. A girlfriend goes to Dallas for her hair and it is ridiculously high. My mom has gone to the same lady for years and has her hair done 1-2 times a week (shes not in great health) and it is 35+ tip each trip. She has the brown helmet steel magnolia Sally Field style so it is not complicated. I think that is expensive for what she gets.
I pay $75 for a cut and style. $230 for a cut and four color foils. My hair is silver without the color because I am a ginger. I only need to do the foils three times a year with no noticeable difference at the roots. Those are prices before tip because everyone tips differently. In fact, my hairdresser says some people never tip.
Both my hair dresser and my dog groomer do not raise prices for established regular customers. I think they realize they make up the difference with tips, holiday gifts, and referral business.
Just a gentle thought . . . . a little suggestion . . . silver can be a lovely color and is much cheaper to maintain! In NYC at least a current trend for young women is silver. They are purposefully dying their hair gray. It looks startling at first, but then you realize that it really looks great. Older folks can (it’s possible) let their natural silver shine.
suburban NJ - I pay $65 for a cut and blow out and about the same for a one-step color process (without blow-out which would be like $40 more). I have two different hair stylists/salons that I go to as one is a color specialist.
My daughter got a gorgeous cut at an Aveda teaching salon - Seattle - recently for only $45 - a bargain!
CT here. I pay $100 for a cut, foil and dry. But the hairdresser is a friend and gives me a price break. She charges others $155 for the same thing.
Tip: get yourselves Style Edit powder root touch up. It is easy peasy to apply (do not get the spray which is a challenge). You just use the little sponge applicator to put the stuff on your roots as they start to show. Using this gets me from every six weeks to every 10 weeks for hair color…and I probably could go longer…but my hair needs to be trimmed by then anyway! You can get Style Edit on Amazon. My salon carries it too.
I live in the south and go to the trendiest salon around. I pay $40 (without tip) for the best haircut I’ve ever had in my life. I’m silver haired and don’t color.
I pay my long-time stylist $110 for just a cut, plus tip. I can go as long as three months between cuts.
I go to another place for color – just a one-step process, no highlights – and pay something in the neighborhood of $100 plus tip. I need to go about every eight weeks. I think it’s expensive, but that’s what the going rate around here (southern Fairfield County) seems to be.
I pay $145 for cut, color w/highlight. I have no idea what I would pay for just a cut.
My sister goes to a salon in NYC. She pays $400.
I use Style Edit, too, but the spray. I don’t find it challenging to use. I only have to go every 5 weeks instead of 4. It really helps if I go longer then 5 weeks because I have a special event like a weddin where I want to have fresh color/cut for.
I pay 145 for highlights and color with no cut and no blow dry usually but I just tried a hole in the wall place that did cut, color, blow dry for $90. I am changing places.
155 for haircut, base color and highlight; 105 without highlights (every other time) - every 5-6 weeks. Plus a tip. This is a new stylist for me and the price is a little higher than what I had been paying, but the work is far better.
I just paid $70 with tip for a difficult shag cut (new hairdresser and fabulous!). I do my own color, usually every 6 weeks, although I think I will start doing it more often. The new cut will require more frequent visits to the salon, so I will have to cut back on the donuts, lol. I used to go every 6 months. H would love me more if he knew how much some of you spend on your hair, haha!
I am changing places.