Full service salon:
Cut and blow dry $55 without tip
Root color touch up, cut and low lights $150 without tip.
I get mine cut 3x year. I pay $23 including the tip. I can’t remember if it’s $17 or 19 pre-tip. Stylist is a former student of H’s. She’s probably pushing 40 now. She was at Mastercuts, but is at a different place now.
No shampoo or anything. Just a cut. She does straighten it to make sure everything it even, but my hair is just a wild mess, it doesn’t matter a lot to me. “Where do I part it,” she asks? Wherever it happens to fall that morning. My kids & H say they love how it looks straightened. I like how the HAIR looks, but I don’t like how it makes ME look. Plus, no way will I ever take the time to do that. I dry my hair for 1 minute, 2 tops, upside down in the morning, flip back and shake it. Ta da. The perfect Einstein look.
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I got my hair done last Friday. Included shampoo, cut, and blow dry/styling for $37 before tip. I color it myself at home.
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The thing that has saved us lots of money over the years is not having gone down the coloring or highlighting hair road ever. And I have straight hair so have never really needed any special hair products. I have joked to my husband now and again that he’s lucky he married a natural beauty (no makeup either for decades). 
I like Jamie Lee Curtis and Andie McDowell going gray.
But, everyone does what’s best for them. As they should. And lots of women have great relationships with their hairdressers, or makeup people or stylists or people they go to for things like facials or botox. I’m just cheap and no fuss! I should step up my game probably but I’m getting too old!
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$50 before tip for wash, cut, and blow dry with a diffuser
Ah, if we are including tip, I often pay $25 and have them keep the extra for tip and GreatClips.
I have short hair and have it cut and colored every 6 weeks. $100 plus I usually give her a $20 tip. Even though she has a one chair shop that’s attached to her husband’s business. And she has another full time job.
She charges me an extra $20 if she puts in highlights.
As long as she allows me as a client, I will still go to her. I consider her a huge bargain. She’s very talented and the color lasts the entire 6 weeks. Which is much better than when I colored it myself.
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Wow. Many of you pay a lot. I was in shock when I checked out after my last cut and blow dry. It was $64, so I walked right back to the stylist to confirm. I found a $34 stylist this month, but my hair now looks like a kindergartener cut it.
My highlight, cut and blow dry was $85 plus tip for years.
Now she’s $95 plus tip and I still think it’s a pretty darn good deal.
And….she’s fast.
About 80 -90 minutes.
Never longer!
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Mine takes about 15 minutes! I couldn’t stand to sit there longer. I HATE sitting in the hair places chairs. I want out!
I will say that I’ve dyed my own at home since I was 11. I do it every 7-8 weeks and the price went up to $10 recently. It used to be $8 for a long while. But at least when I do that, I can walk around and clean the house, do laundry, etc.
And in the old days (college through maybe age 35) I’d just cut it myself to save $$$. Put a pony tail on the top of my head and hack the top off. Tada! As I said upthread, my hair is so wild, you really couldn’t tell…
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I have long hair that is healthy, no bangs. I only get a cut twice a year. I do color almost every 4 weeks. It’s usually around 160.00 after tip. That includes a blow dry or sometimes a blow dry and beach style curl. I’m usually there for 2 +hours but part of that time is just sitting with the color on I have a lot of hair and the blow dry takes time. I love how it looks when I walk out of the salon. I can’t blow dry it myself like she does it. Sometimes I just do roots and no blow dry if she doesn’t have time and that is much less. I have a nice young stylist who went to school with my youngest. I’m happy to give her the business. It costs a lot to live in my area.
The stylists at the discount places in my town don’t make anywhere near a living wage.
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Adding- my husband does his own hair. He has clippers and hasn’t paid for a hair cut in years.
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I thought I would be the only person at Great Clips /cuts. Whatever their name is. $23.00. Used to be like $15.00 not too long ago.
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The young woman who does my hair charges $180 for cut, color, and blow dry. I also add a tip. I have shoulder-length hair and go every 7 weeks. Every other time, I have her add a few highlights. That’s an extra $75.
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Cut, color, and blow dry is $125 and I usually tip $25. I also have curly hair and don’t usually blow dry it myself. Maybe I should ask how much I could save if she didn’t dry it for me!
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I wish, I was a natural platinum blonde as a kid, started to have to highlight after college (mist of the time blondes end up with a very mousy color). I have gray, but in clumps (my mom and sister were blessed with very even gray coverage, my grandfather had a full head of perfectly white hair, my mom’s red hair looked highlighted as does my sisters). My super straight hair from the 80’s that I had permed and curled and teased turned wavy after I had kids, so mos I have to blow it out.
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I was platinum blonde as a kid too, turned light brown, now graying. Always straight so turning wavy never happened . One grandfather also had a full head of white hair until he died, the other one lost plenty of hair !
I’ve been going to my very expensive stylist for more than 15 years, he’s the only one who can make my thick wavy hair look good, and at this point I consider him a good friend. He charges me the friends and family rate of $140 before tip. He also does balayage highlights a couple times a year and that’s over $200. It’s an expense that’s worth it to me.
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I trim and color my own hair, but I go to a salon twice a year, once in June for a summer short cut and once just before Thanksgiving for a trim and highlights which I like to have for the holidays. I pay $30 for the cut/blow dry, $55 for highlights (and that’s way too much). I do everyone else’s hair (family and some friends) for free. I think our son’s complimentary Army basic training buzz cut was the first time anyone else cut his hair. I’ve been doing DH’s since freshman year of college. I wish they’d both wear it longer. I miss those days.
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I have gone to a cheapo place the last twenty years, since we moved here. Think Supercuts type place. Before that I went to a nice salon and probably paid $50. The kids were little so I made an afternoon of it, got a babysitter and did some shopping, so the whole experience cost much more.
I always mean to find a fancier place but never do. I run in to get a haircut on impulse these days. (These last 20 years of days!) My hair is blonde and I am happy with the color so that is not an issue.
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