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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 02:56 PM
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Man, I know I'm kinda cheap, but $150 for a cut and color?
Aren't there other women out there who would rather eat dirt than pay $150 for a haircut? And I can't get people to agree that $2 per outside envelope is not too much to pay for calligraphy....

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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:39 PM
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1. Here I am!
I've finally done the unthinkable and decided to do my hair myself. It looks like crap but it costs only ten bucks. So I guess you could say I'd rather look like crap than pay the $150. :D
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:42 PM
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2. My cuts are free!
I cut my hair myself. Every Tuesday! :)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:44 PM
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3. Yeah, your style is easy to keep up by yourself!
:P
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:45 PM
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4. That's why I 'do' it that way!
;)
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:46 PM
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5. Meh, coulda been worse...
down where I live, there's some salons that, for a cut and color, would start at $300 and go up from there. Oribe salon in Miami Beach springs immediately to mind.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:10 PM
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17. Maybe I haven't been in a salon in too long
I hated being dragged there by my mom when young, so I haven't been to one in over a decade.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:20 PM
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22. Oh, I was certainly citing an extreme example...
just saying that, all in all $150 for a cut and color isn't so bad. It ain't good, but not terrible, either. I think my fiancee pays a little over $100.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:47 PM
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6. I color at home
I get my son's girlfriend to help me touch up the roots.

A simple haircut shouldn't cost more than $30.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:48 PM
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7. I pay $250.
I have extremely hard to cover gray hair with a lot of undercurrents of brown and red. It takes about 3 hours and uses a ton of 'stuff'.

I don't like it. It smells bad. It's a waste of time, but when I come out, I don't look 90 anymore.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:06 PM
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15. And that is totally fine
I mean, I'm sorry that you have hard-to-deal-with hair. And I have absolutely no problem with any woman spending her money as she sees fit. I just would choke at spending that much on my hair. Then again, I am probably lucky: my hair is straight and long (I can almost sit on it again!). When I braid my hair, I trim off the scraggly ends, and that's my haircut. So I guess I "have my hair cut" three or four times a week!
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 10:14 PM
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23. It could be much worse, right?
Hard to color hair at my age isn't such a big deal.

I wouldn't even bother to color and highlight except that it is not the most attractive gray. If it were a delightful silver, I would be all over it. As of now, it looks more like stainless steel and feels like steel wool.

:rofl:
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:54 PM
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37. Sounds like my hair.
I have so much gray now that it is very hard to color. He has to leave it on a little longer and the roots start showing up in fewer than six weeks. Mine is a really ugly shade of gray too, so I definitely have to keep coloring.
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:49 PM
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8. I pay 10$ for my haircuts. 5$ for a tip.
But I have to shave my face.. And that sucks.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 09:01 AM
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28. Same here.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:57 PM
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9. I splurge on my hair.
Having my hair colored at the salon is the one thing I allow myself to be a little extravagant on. I'm pretty thrifty with everything else. But, I can't color my own hair, and I went gray in my early twenties, so off to the salon I go, every six weeks, and I go to someone good. There are better things I could spend the money on, and sometimes I do feel guilty about that, but I've always been rather vain about my hair. I know it seems crazy to most people. But as long as it doesn't put a financial strain on one's budget, I don't think there's anything wrong with people paying that. It does make a difference.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:04 PM
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12. Well, you had better NEVER run for President with hoity toity
ideas like that.

:rofl:


:hi:
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:12 PM
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18. And I do not want to be the one who tells other women what to do
Isn't that what sets us apart from the other folks? No one needs to justify anything to me!
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:17 PM
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20. I didn't get the feeling that you were.
I'm sure if I didn't have massively thick graying hair, I wouldn't understand paying that kind of money, either :) I personally don't get the 500 shoe craze. I don't understand paying more than 100 dollars for a pair of shoes. Quality level and style of shoes seems to rise drastically up to about that price point, but after that I think you're paying for the name.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:19 PM
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21. Uh-oh
I would never pay more than, say, $40 for shoes. Oh gosh, am I just reliving my father's tighwad-edness?
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:59 PM
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10. $200 here, easily
AND I still manage to care about the poor.

How do I do it, you ask? Well, I'm a woman of many talents.

:rofl:
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:04 PM
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11. It's not that I think you're awful for spending money on yourself
It's just that I'm too cheap to do it.
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:05 PM
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13. Oh, I know...
I didn't mean to imply that's what you thought...just some drama from another thread is all.

:hi:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:05 PM
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14. I'll bet there are things you spend money on that I would find odd.
It's what makes us all unique.

I have neighbors who insist on leg waxes, mani/pedis. :scared: I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:08 PM
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16. I am sure
I am likely one of perhaps a dozen people on the continent who thinks spending $2,000 for two weeks of bookbinding instruction is a pretty darn good deal, for instance...
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:12 PM
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19. I have learned two things.
1) Nice and Easy is my friend.
2) The $10 haircut is also my friend.

And I don't think it looks that bad. I always get compliments on my hair.

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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 07:12 AM
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24. I see a lot of people who do that and look like shit.
Then they have to go to a non-sweatshop salon and pay $600. to correct the mess. $$$$$$$$$$
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 02:35 PM
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30. Maybe the people who do that and look like shit
don't know how they want their hair or just let the stylist do what they want.

I don't know anyone who has spent $600 to have their hair fixed from a disaster.

And those "sweatshop salons" are usually made up of single women with children doing everything they can to raise their kids. I would rather give them a small payment and a big tip for cutting my hair than some upscale salon who makes their money styling for the local news channels.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 09:54 PM
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33. Those sweatshop workers are paid so low a wage...
That many of them qualify for medicaid, food stamps and other subsidies. And they don't get anything but minimum wage and maybe a tip for cutting someones hair. This is very degrading to licensed professional. They are very exploited. The corporation makes billions, the workers eat with food stamps. There is something very wrong with cheap haircuts.
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:06 PM
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35. I don't disagree with your points about their working conditions.
Edited on Thu Apr-19-07 10:07 PM by VenusRising
I just can't in good conscience pay money to people who don't need it when there are people who can cut my hair fine that need the money more. I pretty much always give 100% tip, and I know they can use it to feed their kids and pay their bills.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 07:35 AM
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25. most women in my office pay about $300 for cut/color.
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BuelahWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 07:51 AM
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26. I get mine cut at the beauty school across the street for $5
and color my own, when I feel like covering the gray. And actually the $5 haircut comes out looking as good or better than the $30 ones I used to get. :hide:
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 08:35 AM
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27. omg, the last time I got my hair cut & colored, I didn't pay attention and the charge was $150!!!
I was so in shock that I cut corners on everything for the rest of the month to come out 'even'.

I used to color my own hair but then it ruined the texture of it (I have no idea what I did wrong - I used either Nice & Easy or Loreal) and it became like straw. I went to get it professionally done during my divorce, as a major pick me up, and haven't quit going. $150 is my all-time high. I'm used to paying less, like $75-$80, but I think I said yes to too many things (like highlights and extra product) and was pretty shocked. I should really check into coloring it again myself sooner or later. And eventually of course, learn to live with the gray.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:49 AM
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29. I'd pay $150 for a good color and cut.
Right now I pay $70 for a cut and a highlight cap; it's $80 for a cut and foil (using more than one color).

That's a great price for the service I get; my stylist/colorist is a friend of several years, and she's around my age. She knows my personality. She knows my hair. I just wish I could get her to come over every morning and do my hair for me. ;)

She just sold her interest in a larger shop and opened a cute funky shop behind her house. If she ever moved or went out of the color business, I don't know what I'd do.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 02:38 PM
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31. Unless there's a special occasion,
I go to the local chain salon. $20 (plus tip) for a cut and eyebrow wax. I'm definitely utilitarian like that. :)
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 02:43 PM
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32. I think thats what my wife and daughter pay
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:04 PM
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34. I spend about
$8.00 on a box of Preference about once a year (but I learned last weekend that my hair's too long -- I'm gonna have to go for the second box) and I've got a special pair of scissors that I keep hidden away from everyone else so's it can get trimmed by someone -- whoever's handy at the moment I decide I need a trim.

150.00? No way.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:25 PM
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36. Yes, I would rather eat dirt. If I had that kind of money to burn, it'd be on ink for
my skin, not color for my hair *lol* I'm a DIYer when it comes to hair - cut and color.

And yes, people are INSANE if they think $2 is high for an OUTSIDE envelope in calligraphy, holy cats. They have obviously never done it. For a buck an address, that's at most $.34 per line, which is a couple of cents per letter if you're lucky. They want cheap, they can go with pseudo-calligraphy and do it themselves; they want art, they need to be prepared to pay for artistry.
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Kixel Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:00 PM
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38. My friend does mine!
Usually I give him $40 bucks and we end up having cocktails in his kitchen while he makes me pretty. It's like a slumber party. I always get complements-and I have referred plenty of people to him!

I can't spend that much money at a salon. I did once and I was not impressed with the result. Eddie's cheaper and better!
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