Highlights, cut and blowout with tip is about $250. I sometimes only need a partial on the highlights and can skip a cut here and there.
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I cut what’s left of DH’s hair myself; I buzzed my kids’ hair when they were little until I deicded they looked like little supremacists and stopped 
I pay $35 twice a year at a Holiday Hair. She does a great job consoling me about the gray — don’t mind the gray at all, but jeeez does it have to be like wire? On a humid day I look like I stuck my finger in a socket. Or perhaps I have a halo
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Pre-pandemic was paying $100 every 4 weeks (including tip) for color appointments where I got highlights in addition to color one appointment and cut the next. Knew I was headed to bigger, more expensive city in retirement and that same routine would be about twice as much. Pandemic provided the right opportunity to give up color. Now, in new city, I pay $85 before tip for cut every 9-10 weeks. Not cheap, but I really like the stylist in shop that D referred me to.
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I used to go to a Supercuts/Great Clips kind of place. But then switched a few years ago to a stylist. Costs about 75$ with tip. Love the way my hair looks after she’s done with it (I cannot get get it to look like that on my own). Since I only go 2-3 times a year, I figure this is not bad at all. Just a cut and blow dry - no coloring needed thankfully!
H stopped going to Great Clips when the pandemic hit. I am his barber/stylist now 
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I pay about $250 for full head highlights, cut and blow dry. That includes the tip. It takes 3 hours and since like many of you I don’t like to sit that long I go two or three times a year.
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$55 for cut (at stylist’s house) - every 4 months, roughly (hair is long layers)
$65 for single process (about every 4-5 weeks)
$150 for single process + highlights (that combo is about every 4-5 months) (color is also at stylist’s house so no tip - whew!).
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I tell my husband the same thing. And no manicures or pedicures either. My brown hair is still pretty brown at 65 with just light streaks of gray. I had someone tell me that they liked my highlights. 
I do admire lovely gray hair.
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I’ve never had a manicure, pedicure, facial, or massage either. I’m very boring!
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Except for the massage, me neither. Though my massages were the sports/PT variety, never the light “relaxing” ones. I can’t see anything getting me to agree to a manicure, pedicure, or facial…
Since my daughter (now 27) was in elementary school, I have gotten my hair cut in Chinatown (Manhattan). My current guy has cut my hair for at least 15 years. He was very apologetic when they raised the price for short hair to $12. That would include a wash and blow-dry, but I come in with clean hair. He will not let me leave unless my hair is bone-dry, but it’s short and thick and he sprays it with plain water section by section and drying takes no time at all. I give him a $20 every time. He does a beautiful job! I don’t need color but I am sure his wife does a beautiful job given her own hair.
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I’ve colored my hair myself since I was about 25, but later this year I’m going to get professional color and light highlights (at least that’s the plan). My natural hair is about 99% grey, and I can’t get it light enough with color. I use light brown but it looks dark brown. “Needing” professional color is one reason I’m so happy to be going to a cheaper place. I’m saving over $50+ a cut, so I can easily afford color every now and then.
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There’s only been one stylist who can cut my ridiculously straight fine hair and I’ve followed her to her new salon, where prices have risen to a whopping $25. Happy to see that there are some others also paying lower prices!
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I used to go to an expensive place but they got harder to schedule with and it was also inconvenient when I retired. So now I go to a hole in the wall place but they do a great job, and I get my pedicure done after my roots and highlights are “setting”. So wash, cut highlight/root touchup and toes, and tip— $150!
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I’ve been seeing my current hairdresser since she was in beauty school. I was the volunteer she needed when she had to do a color, cut, style, dry. Twice. I liked it so much I switched to her. The person who had been doing my hair was winding down.
At this point, no more color. I get a cut about every two or three months. Sometimes a blow dry, and sometimes not. Never more than $35. But I get the long time customer rate.
$220 plus tip for cut, color (roots or more, depending), ~ 4x/year plus highlights or foils 2x/year. I have thicker curly hair, so it’s a must for me to get it done properly. While my hair had always been wavy and easy to hold a curl, sometime in my early 50s it went full-on curl.
I sit under the dryer after the cut and wash, then she checks for the inevitable little misses that fall out after it dries. At home, I let it air dry.
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I always get foil highlights with my cut and blow-dry. She also uses a toner on my hair which varies from lighter blond to dark brown, with plenty of gray. She highlights my hair and blends the gray so nicely that I will just go gray naturally and one day be silvery white.
It’s not cheap but I have thick wavy hair and I need it to look professional. My D has stick straight hair and she can pay $20 or $100 and it looks exactly the same. I have had my fair share of poor haircuts to be happy to get good highlights and style. It’s probably about $200 with tip.
I don’t get manicures except once or twice a year, so my hair is my big beauty spend. Although I got a manicure yesterday because we are going to a wedding and I love having my nails done. I don’t love spending an hour and $30 however!! Don’t think I’’ll turn into a weekly nail person.
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me neither! we can be boring together!
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So many responses feel I should add in line.
I have short curly thick hair. I use root touch up myself about every six weeks or so. Only need to use it on my temple area and very back neck. One kit last and 3 applications.
Get my hair cut every 7 weeks or so. $50 +$10 tip. Wash, nice little conditioner massage, cut. I request no drying but she would for the same price. She adds in a little curl product before I leave.
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I don’t know why- but I hate going to the salon. Doesn’t matter if it’s high end or budget, with many different places tried. It probably is something about me not liking a fuss. I have only been once to a masseuse using a gift certificate. I had a manicure in Peru- very nice experience. That’s it. What do I pay? ranges from $100 to nothing if D cuts my hair or I do it.
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I used to have short hair, and I needed a cut every 5-6 weeks. Can’t remember what I paid - maybe $35-45 before tip - but it added up. I grew my hair out during Covid, then I started going to my D’s stylist. I pay $125/cut (recently raised from $100). I am happy to pay it. I look better than I ever did (at least, my H & I think so). I only need a cut twice a year, and interim bang trims are free. I don’t get manicures, pedicures, massages - so I don’t have those costs.
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