$150 + tip for cut/color/highlights every 8 weeks. Otherwise, when I start seeing my gray hairs, I have to deal with my almost OCD level urge to pull them out.
I go to a Paul Mitchell Salon. Hair wash, cut, blowout is $12 to $17. (the higher end price is for a intermediate level stylist)
Base color $30 to $35
Partial highlights $30 to $35
Full highlights $42 to $47.
3 color shots $5
I pay $40 plus tip every 6-8 weeks for a cut and blow dry. Although now I’m growing it out so I just got a bangs trim today for $10. I don’t color. Apparently my gray looks good because people ask me where I got it done and what do I use on my hair (nowhere and nothing.) I still see brown hair when I look in the mirror but in pictures I can see it’s gray.
$150 shampoo, cut, style, highlights
D.C. outer suburbia
Ah, the Midwest…$30 without tip. I don’t color so I have no knowledge about that. If I can’t come when the girl I use is there, she will figure out a time that works for both of us.
I am showing this thread to my H - obviously I don’t go to a high end salon, and I am happily going gray, so my $33 cut every couple of months sounds like a real bargain. My stylist says my gray looks like highlights, but perhaps she is being nice because she knows I have no interest in coloring.
Silpat, that was my old technique!!! For the last 10 years or more, though, I have had long salt and pepper hair. $14.99 haircut once or twice a year, whether I need one or not…
I found an amazing stylist years ago and I and my two girls have been with her ever since.
For me, I get partial foils on long hair, and it costs me $120 (including a 20% tip). If I add a cut it’s $180.
Both girls go at the same time (16 and 17) one gets a cut and style, one gets a cut, style, and a few foils and it’s $120 (including 20% tip) for both of them.
We live in a suburb of Atlanta.
She’s worth every penny. I used to go to great clips and use box color on my own hair. I spent 18 months growing that s*** out several years ago and now my hair looks amazing under her care. Like getting a house cleaner every other week, it’s something I wish I had done decades ago and re-prioritized other things lower.
Don’t tell my husband but my full color (to cover the grey), highlights (& a few lowlights), glaze and haircut yesterday were $390. I do that combo 4 times/year
I live in a big east coast city and admittedly go to a high-end place. I had been monogamous with my previous stylist for 20 years until he started messing up both the color and the cut constantly, so I “divorced” him about 5 years ago and bounced around for a few years looking for the sweet spot of reasonable price/good cut and color. I was never able to find it, so I caved and went to the expensive place with the color expert. As painful as it is to pay that amount every 3 months (I do full color for less than $100 at 6 week intervals), I’m very happy with the results.
Re hair looking good. I always had “good hair” (no, my real name isn’t Becky) and used Suave or VO5 or other cheap shampoo because I didn’t see any difference. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve now switched to better shampoos. I splurge on this Moroccanoil Weightless Hair Masque (it’s named something like that) as a conditioner and it makes my hair look ah-ma-zing even if I am just going to Supercuts 
When I lived in Jacksonville, Fl. I paid $95 for a cut, color and set. We have since moved to a small town. I pay $60 for the same thing. I get my hair done every 4-5 weeks. My husband thinks it is atrocious to pay that much. I think it is a bargain.
Thanks all…I feel much better about paying higher prices now. im going tomorrow to get it fixed, but haven’t made my mind up yet if I’ll go back to my old stylist. The salon I’m going to costs about 60 for a cut, and 90 for cut and color.
My old haircut in the DC area was $70-$75 + tip and where I moved I now pay $45 - $50. Whoo hoo! Unfortunately, my dog grooming price went from $35 - $70 so we’re even. The dog looks good. ;))
I need a good hair cutter. My hair is super thick and almost totally straight. Because it’s so thick it doesn’t lay flat but pooches out in weird ways and I absolutely need layers and a skilled person to do some thinning.
I don’t color it and it’s not quite salt and pepper yet, more streaky near my face like I’m a bad fairy in a Disney movie. I like that feeling!
I did like the silver hair I had. I received positive comments, because it was very unique. My hairdresser took a picture of me before I went with the foils 3 times a year. I have been with him for years (before I turned silver) so he knew what colors to add back. The color really looks much better with my skin. I would have to wear more makeup to balance the silver and not look washed out.
My dog goes to the groomer every two weeks and gets a hot oil treatment. So, so spoiled.
When I go totally silver I’m going to get all those crazy colors like Helen Mirren does :D.
I pay 65 plus generous tip in DC area for cut and blow dry.
I use box color, but it’s the brand used by many salons, at home. For many years I did an excellent job, and got compliments on my hair. Now I’m completely white (95% plus), and I have had color trouble lately. I may cave and pay for color soon, but I need it every 3 weeks.
I pay about $135 every 8 weeks for cut and base color. I have some highlights put in every other time and I also have keratin straightening on my bangs only every few visits. The keratin is and additional $20, the highlights are an additional $50 or so. My stylist does such a great job, it’s worth every penny.
I pay $41 plus tip for a cut every 3 months. That’s expensive in my small Michigan town. I have very thick hair with a slight wave that needs thinning all the time. I have followed the same stylist for 15 years to whatever salon she is with. My girls, 17 and 22, have the same thick hair, though wavier. No one cuts their hair better. Same price for them. No color for any of us, though my strawberry-blond is fading…
Another one here who feels like I need to have H read this thread! I didn’t start coloring until two years ago. I keep telling him he has no idea how much money I’ve saved him. I was always a strawberry blonde, but as more gray finally came in, it started to look dull, so I basically color to what my hair was five years ago - thinking about adding in some highlights this fall maybe. I’ve followed my stylist around for 20+ years now and both my girls went to her until they moved out of state after college. A couple of months ago, she moved out of a salon and into her home. But I pay $95 for color, cut and styling (oh, and usually eyebrow tinting) every five weeks; I tip $20 on top of it. Last time I was there we started playing around with some ideas for D’s wedding in March, and there was no extra charge. Man am I getting a good deal compared to what some of you are paying. I’m in suburban Chicago.
Suburban DC here. A friend of mine who I met in Mommy and Me classes 24 years ago does my hair. She used to work at a salon, but has had her own studio for almost 20 years now because she needed to be more available for her special needs son. I see her 2-3 times a year for a really good cut and color – $100, which I suspect is the F&F rate. She is a genius with color. In between, I go to the local Hair Cuttery for a maintenance cut. I need to color more often (I am totally gray around my ears and it seems color-resistant). My friend has told me the the products she uses so I can mix my own color, which I do on occasion. My thin hair is really sparse thanks to the chemo drugs and hormone imbalance, so a good cut helps camouflage some of the really skimpy spots. I am now totally low maintenance on hair care – I run my fingers through it and head out the door. Used to blow dry, curl and spray before going anywhere.
DH and both my kids have thick, curly, gorgeous hair. So not fair!