Hair salon price question

[maudefindlay]

If you get your hair highlighted what do you pay for it and a haircut and how long is your hair? Just trying to decide if I'm paying an insane amount

[rooster222]

Medium length hair, partial highlight & cut $130-$140 plus tip. I think this is super cheap and I've been going to the same person for 20 years.

[Roc A Bee]

I think this is going to vary a lot. I have medium length hair, below my bra line. When I get a full highlight plus roots (to cover grays), toner, cut and style it is $350ish. I only need a full highlight every year or so. In between I get a roots touch up and a partial highlight every 6 months.

[gummy]

I don't color my hair, but my medium length haircut is $90. HCOL.

[sdlaura]

About $200 for partial highlights and haircut

[definitelyO]

partial highlights, cut, they usually use a "rinse" on my color as well. I pay $325 including the tip.

[mags]

Roots only and trim $130 medium/long hair

[m15]

Medium length hair, usually only get a partial highlight. It's around $120 before tip for that with a haircut.

[penelope]

Roots only and a trim - $90
Roots, highlight and trim - $120

It used to be more like $180 and $220 when my hairdresser worked for a chain but she left and now rents a chair and sets her own prices. The first time she told me the total there I almost fell over. She said now she can just charge for her time and supplies without corporate mark up. I just make sure to tip her really well now. Hair is curly and medium length (hits about mid-neck).

[firedancer10288]

I have medium length hair just below my shoulders. I get my roots dyed and partial highlights, plus a cut and blow dry and it’s $150.

[jackie011]

I go to a deva curl trained stylist and my shoulder length hair is $78 for a cut. I think it’s about $125 when she does the deep conditioning treatment, which I do about once a year. MCOL

[mcppalmbeach]

I got a hair cut, partial highlights and toner yesterday. Total was $220 plus $44 tip. It’s a lot of money. Oh and my hair is to my shoulders.

[starburst604]

For a recent partial balayage with glaze, trim and blow dry I paid $350 before tip. Long hair.

[jennistarr1]

above my shoulders, 160$ for color, 50 for cut which includes blowdry, otherwise just 30 for blow dry

[isabel]

Aug 20, 2024 16:37:00 GMT -5 gummy said:

I don't color my hair, but my medium length haircut is $90. HCOL.

Ditto (not including tip). I'm in Denver. I don't feel like we're MCOL anymore, but also wouldn't compare us to like NYC or something like that.

[silvercrayon]

Short hair. I get red color with blonde highlights and a cut. It’s$200.00 and that’s with my tip. And because it’s short I have to go in every 5 weeks. I live in a LCOL area.

[lilypad1126]

I have medium length hair (just below my shoulders). 2 weeks ago I paid $285 for full highlights/ lowlights and a root touch up. It would have been another $75 if I’d had her cut it. Then tip on top of that. I live in Houston for reference.

[TR]

North of Dallas and I pay $95 for a haircut and it’s been awhile since I got highlights but I think it was around $300 or just over when I did.

[scout8]

Root touch up, highlights, cut is $185 plus tip. She is significantly cheaper than my last stylist. And closer.

[maudefindlay]

Thanks everybody! I have medium length hair and get a trim 3 to 4x a year and highlights 2 to 3 x a year, once is just partial. When I get full highlights it's now $350. I just remember it being in the 200s a couple years ago.

[TR]

Unfortunately, that seems normal to me. And my ~$300 was only for partial not full highlights.

[heygrey]

My hair is between my shoulders and bra line depending on how long I let it go. Cut and half head of highlights is $290 after tip. So $240ish?

ETA: I realized the last time I did this was ~15 months ago so prices have almost definitely gone up. My stylist passed her Red Seal exam since then and my last hair cut (no highlights) had increased. I think you're on par. 

[maudefindlay]

Aug 20, 2024 19:58:10 GMT -5 TR said:

Unfortunately, that seems normal to me. And my ~$300 was only for partial not full highlights.

Thanks, I won't quit my guy then. It just seemed like a big jump, but I guess it's like everything else that jumped up. I also get my eyebrows waxed and tinted so it's over $400 then.

[dreamcrisp1]

Waist length hair - usually around €200 with tip for my full balayage, haircut, and style.

[laurack]

Last time I went was February - full highlight plus cut, it was $325 before tip. I hadn’t had highlights in a few years and was quite shocked by the increase. I need to go back but the high price I why I haven’t been since February. I have begun to get some greys and having highlights has certainly helped make those less noticeable I think. My hair is long ish.

[expatjen]

My friend/ stylist charges me about $300 including tip for partial highlights and cut. My hair is about 2 inches below my shoulders. I think she’s worth the price (we’re in Hawaii, so HCOL).

[ssmjlm]

Aug 20, 2024 20:03:12 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

Aug 20, 2024 19:58:10 GMT -5 TR said:

Unfortunately, that seems normal to me. And my ~$300 was only for partial not full highlights.

Thanks, I won't quit my guy then. It just seemed like a big jump, but I guess it's like everything else that jumped up. I also get my eyebrows waxed and tinted so it's over $400 then.

I've been going to the same hairstylist since 2007 and she said post Covid supply costs for hair went through the roof. It was double or more for some products. She actually had to switch out some stuff because she couldn't stomach the cost and then passing along to such a huge increase to her clients.

She "charges" me $120 for baylage and cut and my hair is about to my bra strap. I tell her to charge me $175 on the machine because I keep telling her she's not charging me enough.

She's contemplating retirement and selling the salon and I know I'm going to look at double the price when I have to find someone else.

[maudefindlay]

ssmjlm thanks, good to know. Some of this is just my mother's voice in my head. She rarely spent money on herself and was always asking if something was necessary. I appreciate my being more of a minimalist from her, I hate clutter and stuff, but I don't like the second guessing myself on other things that are pretty normal like this.

[eddy]

$250 for roots and dimension with haircut. No tip, she is tipless.

medium/long length hair

[eddy]

Aug 21, 2024 6:50:41 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

ssmjlm thanks, good to know. Some of this is just my mother's voice in my head. She rarely spent money on herself and was always asking if something was necessary. I appreciate my being more of a minimalist from her, I hate clutter and stuff, but I don't like the second guessing myself on other things that are pretty normal like this.

I always justify it to myself that you have your hair every single day. It isn't a bag or a pair of jeans. Your hair is on your head every moment of the day. So it makes sense to be a place to invest. You definitely get what you pay for when it comes to hair color. 

This is also how I justify botox lololol.