What do you typically pay to get your hair cut / colored / highlighted?

[firstbaby]

I know this will vary greatly by the area you live, but I'm so curious to see the variations! I don't go every 6 weeks because it is so expensive here. I try to go once every three months, but more and more gray is showing up and that 3 months is feeling like 2 months too long, lol. I pay $180 for partial highlights, toner and cut - plus tip. I called and asked what a root touch up would cost and was really (unpleasantly) surprised with the price - $75. I've been going to the same stylist for several years and I really do like how she cuts and colors my hair so I don't want to change. What do you pay to have your hair done and how often do you go?

[ang79]

A friend referred me to her stylist who has her own shop. I pay $60 for base color, highlights, and cut. I was going every 3-4 months to try to space out the cost but the gray is coming in quicker now, so she suggested I just do the base color touch upwhen my roots start to show and do highlights every other visit. I think she charged me $40 or $45 for the touch up. Those prices are the best I've found in this area, the salon I used to go to was $80-$100 for highlights I think (several years ago). I would be hesitant to go very often if it was $180!

[jgenie]

I pay $105 for a single process color and cut and blow dry. When I started I was going every 3 or 4 months between visits. Sadly I'm now in the 5 week range. I don't notice it at 4 weeks but after 5 it seems I'm overrun with grays.

I had thought of doing an at home root touch up but I don't even know where to start so I can't.

I'm outside NYC at a small salon. I think in NYC or at a larger salon I would be closer to $200.

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[citymama]

I don't color my hair, so it's just a simple haircut. I pay $75 including tip, every 8 weeks.

[SnuggleBuggles]

It was creeping up to $150 for partial foils and cut/ style. I went to just face frame highlights for a while and got closer to $100. I gave up coloring (will probably go back at some point) and pay $60 for just the cut/style.


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[JBaxter]

120 for all over highlights ( I have mine painted on) and 60 for front/top. I go 3x a year for my painted highlights 1 full and 2 partials

[smilequeen]

I do a cut and balayage color every 7 weeks. It's about $250. That is expensive for my area.

[*myfoursons]

I do root touch up every 4 weeks -- $115. Every other time I add in a cut, $165.

[scrooks]

I just went in last week for a baselift, hair cut and blow dry/ style and it was $100.
Usually a partial foil highlight is $80ish and a full foil highlight is $100-120. Fwiw I have crazy thick hair. Blow drying my hair is a serious project! Also I live in a suburban area with a lower cost of living.

[DualvansMommy]

A friend referred me to her stylist who has her own shop. I pay $60 for base color, highlights, and cut. I was going every 3-4 months to try to space out the cost but the gray is coming in quicker now, so she suggested I just do the base color touch upwhen my roots start to show and do highlights every other visit. I think she charged me $40 or $45 for the touch up. Those prices are the best I've found in this area, the salon I used to go to was $80-$100 for highlights I think (several years ago). I would be hesitant to go very often if it was $180!

That used to be my salon. It was a small place run by fantastic polish stylists, but she was an hour away from me. When I was working, it was only 30 mins from my office. Doable for every 4 months. But that was when I didn't have grey hair showing up much, and pre kids. Now it's too far.

So I switched to a local salon and pay about 110 for single color process, cut and blow dry every 6 weeks. Every other visit, she adds in partial highlights which brings my total up to 185.


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[twowhat?]

I pay $45 for just a cut (no color). I feel like it's a super great price so I tip my guy 25%, he is a gem.

[bigsis]

I just get a hair cut 3x a year :bag at Fantastic Sam's. I pay $25 including tip. I don't color my hair yet.

My DD has ombre and we paid $180 including tip. This is at Fantastic Sam's as well.

[KrisM]

I don't color. I just get a hair cut a couple times a year. I pay $39 plus tip.

ETA: DD and I have donated our hair twice now. While growing it, I just get the ends trimmed at Great Clips for about $12.

[AnnieW625]

I don't color my hair just get my hair cut every 7-8 weeks and I pay $60 including tip. I have been going to same salon for 8 yrs. now. If my current stylist leaves (she only works part time) I may branch out and try a Deva stylist, but for me it will be worth the extra cost to go to someone who knows curly hair; my current stylist isn't Deva trained, but she knows what she is doing.

[niccig]

Cost is why I gave up and accepted my gray hair. The cut is about $75, but color + highlights was pushing over $200 with tip. Plus I never had time to go get roots taken care. I have a lot of gray and I'm early 40s. I need to start using a shampoo for gray hair that brightens silver tones.


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[bnme]

I pay $110 plus tip for cut and single process every 6-8 weeks. I hate spending so much an going so often. I wish my greys looked nicer so I could leave them (my mom greed early, never colored, and it looks great on her), but the don't blend well with my color and style.

[Philly Mom]

OP similar cost to you for highlights and cut. I spent a bit more this past time because I had highlights and a full process done. Highlights are much more expensive than a single process. Anyway, because of the cost, I went a year between appointments. Normally I try to go every 3-4 months.


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[liz]

$75 for a haircut every 8-10 weeks or so. $125 for half head foil highlights every 3 months. To save some costs, I'm trying to go 10-12 weeks for the haircut. Grays are now interspersed throughout my hair so I can't stretch out getting highlights without the grays becoming really noticeable.

[Pennylane]

I do color,highlights and cut every 3-4 months and it costs around 185 with tips. I have started doing root touch ups at home and it is so easy and saves me a lot of money!! I use this and seriously you can not mess it up. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170204/3a2dec980fea5e850b79d693c1eef303.jpg


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[klwa]

I just get a hair cut 3x a year :bag at Fantastic Sam's. I pay $25 including tip. I don't color my hair yet.

My DD has ombre and we paid $180 including tip. This is at Fantastic Sam's as well.

Thank you! That's pretty much me, too. Except I do color my hair. I got my first grey hair at 6. http://m.schwarzkopf.com/skus/en/home/brands/color/KeratinColor/5-3_Berry_Brown.mobile.html

[mom2binsd]

I just got my hair highlighted, toner added and cut, total was 55.00 plus tip, I get my hair cut about every 3 months, and just highlights every 6 months, my hair is many many shades if grey and blonde, but I like to add some blonde.

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[meggie t]

HCOLA - single process and cut/dry is $215. I don't do highlights b/c of cost. When I first moved here I tried 3 different salons. All were about same cost, not including tip. I did highlights a few times and that pushed cost to over $300.

ETA: I go every 7-8 weeks

[jgenie]

I do color,highlights and cut every 3-4 months and it costs around 185 with tips. I have started doing root touch ups at home and it is so easy and saves me a lot of money!! I use this and seriously you can not mess it up. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170204/3a2dec980fea5e850b79d693c1eef303.jpg


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How did you figure out which color to buy?


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[bcafe]

I get my hair cut maybe twice a year (am growing it out) for $45-tip included. I color my hair for $4. I love how the color washes out evenly and doesn't turn my hair reddish, which for a box color is huge! I have grey streaks up by my face that turn to "highlights" when I color my hair, and, I am cheap. :)

[lizzywednesday]

Heavens! I can't recall what I was paying to have my hair colored back when I colored my hair! I think it was in the neighborhood of $80-$150, but I stopped having it colored in 2003 or so and haven't gone back. (I could use some color at the moment to add some warmth, plus highlights/lowlights, but I'm not really motivated to maintain it and DH doesn't seem to understand exactly how often I'd have to go.)

Anyway, for a stylist cut/blowdry, the salon I was going to starts its charges around $42, so it'd be about $60 with tip. I wasn't going as often as I needed to, mostly because I keep telling myself I'm not a priority.

As much as I need a haircut, DH expects services to charge Hair Cuttery prices, which means $60 for a haircut is serious sticker shock. (I think $26 for a haircut - before tip - is sticker shock, too.)

Last, maybe it's different for me because I don't have any noticeable grey hair, so I've actually gone over a year since my last haircut (it shows; I'm not growing it out and actually hate it long) but have been dragging my feet about coloring because I don't want to get trapped in the maintenance-go-round.

[anonomom]

Generally, I get my hair cut once a year/18 months, and I pay whatever Great Clips is charging (under $20, plus tip). I did get my hair highlighted (bright blue!) over the summer, and it cost about $200 including tip. I'd love to do it again, but I can't justify that kind of money. I'm regretfully letting it grow out.

[Pennylane]

How did you figure out which color to buy?


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Basically I just looked at the boxes . There aren't many for root cover ups. I am 6a, light brown hair.

Ann


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[erosenst]

Medium COL area - $85 + tip for haircut. BUT - I have curly hair and 90% of her clients have curly hair. The ten years I've gone to her have by far been the best haircuts I've ever gotten. I usually only go every 3 months or so which makes it less painful, and although I'm graying I don't color (and am at the pony inn ever will. )


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[stinkyfeet]

I live in a HCOL area but go to an Asian salon with decent prices. I just had my roots touched up yesterday, and it costs about $50 for a single process color.

I have a sensitive scalp and dry hair, so I add a scalp conditioning treatment and deep conditioning treatment under their hair steamer for about $50 extra. I hate the added cost, but my scalp and hair thanks me for it.

I think haircuts are in the $40 range.


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[SASM]

I believe it's $130 for cut and single-process color/glaze. I have A LOT of thick shoulder-length hair.

[egoldber]

I refuse to accept how gray I am LOL. But I just don't have the time to go to the salon as often as I need root touch-ups.

I also started doing root touch-ups at home. I have used the one Pennylane posted and I have also used this one:

http://www.lorealparisusa.com/products/hair-color/products/root-touch-up/root-rescue.aspx?shade=9-Light-Blonde

My hairdresser told me which color to use. She also said you can use regular hair color as a touch-up. That way you can use the same product for both all over color and your root touch-ups. The directions to do this are in the product box. This is the one she suggested and I have found that it is very easy to use:

http://www.garnierusa.com/products/haircolor/nutrisse/blondes/dark-natural-blonde-70.aspx

For any of these products, I have found that my grays are very color resistant and I have to leave the product on for longer than it says. My hairdresser said that was normal. She also recommended always going a shade lighter. My natural hair color is light brown and she recommended I go no darker than dark blonde hair color.

I have also recently started using this to lengthen the time between touch-ups and it works very well and looks very natural. It isn't permanent and washes right out. I only wash my hair every 3 days and it generally lasts for 3 days. Sometimes I have to touch back up along my hair line.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013XGBD8A/ref=twister_B013XGBD12?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

[mackmama]

Highlighting $250
I do it 3-4x year

I rarely get my hair cut.

[corrie23]

I get my hair cut about 3 times/year. I pay $50 plus tip. I've been using my stylist for 15 yrs+ and it used to cost more when she was at a fancier salon but she moved to a smaller/more basic place and the cost adjusted down. I'm there for the cut not for the decor/ambience, so I'm happy with the lower cost. I moved about 2 years ago and I still drive about an hour to go to her. She's great and the cost where I live now would be much higher.

I color my hair at home because of cost, product ingredients, and because I'd never be able to get to a salon often enough to keep up with the grow out. I use http://usa.herbatint.com/