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What's the going rate for a hair cut round your way?
My local barbers on an industrial estate near my office have put their price up from £10 to £15. Thought this was a bit of a piss take so I started shopping around. Turns out it's still by far the cheapest, if i go to the high street i'm looking at £25 for a regular hair cut!
Combined with the rampant kebab inflation i've been witnessing round here (£12 for a large donner!) i'm feeling the pinch!
£13 in the local barbers i use
Cheaper in the local hack place
Anywhere fashionable £20 upwards
£11 at the place I normally use in Marple (was £8 when I first moved there about 12 years ago)
£5 advertised in the windows of some of the places in Hyde where i work
Village barber is £8, and I always give a tenner. East Sussex.
Going rate for a gents haircut round here is £10 at the barbers but that involves just trapping up and waiting in a queue which can take an hour at the weekend.
I get mine cut at the local ladies hairdressers by appointment on a Thursday night. Costs £15 but I get a beer or a coffee while I get my haircut and I can be in and out in 15 mins. Much more convenient.
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Pay? I bought some clippers 30 years ago and haven't paid since.
I pay between £5 - £10 depending where I go.
Bearing in mind I don't have what you'd call a fashionable hair cut - literally just a shirt back & sides and a bit off the top please....
The £5 local is just for a straight forward cut and the £10 Turkish place by work usually includes wash/dry and some coffee...
Although at the barber in the block where I work a straight forward cut is £25.....
£8 adult, £5 kids
£19, Glasgow City Centre
£9 at my local barber but that is cheap I think, does a reasonable job and is pretty quick so you don't end up waiting too long. Frankly, there's not as much to cut up there as there used to be anyway...!
I think £15 is the going rate round here (Stourbridge).
Combined with the rampant kebab inflation i’ve been witnessing round here (£12 for a large donner!) i’m feeling the pinch!
£13 (three chairs and a barber, Reading) , quality varies depending which person you get.
Kebab van over the road is both the nicest grilled chicken kebab in Reading and the portions are enormous (and then piled high with loads of crunchy salad, not just a few limp bits of lettuce). A small kebab and chips is satisfying, the medium is uncomfortably filling, I've not dared order the large or XL! £5.50 for a medium Donner, £6.50 for chicken.
Bearing in mind I don’t have what you’d call a fashionable hair cut – literally just a shirt back & sides and a bit off the top please….
Shirt (off your back) and sides?
£9.50 inc beard trim in Leeds suburb.
My local barber has just gone up to £7.50
If I go anywhere else I just tell them to stop when they get to that.
When the place I go to started up, it was £9 - that must be 6 or 7 years ago.
It's now £16 or £18. I remember wheezing slightly the last time she rang the amount up on the till.
The place next door is £9.50, but it's a traditional barbers where you turn up & queue. The one I go to sorts out appointments, so it's worth spending a bit more to not waste a chunk of Saturday morning sitting & reading 6 month old car magazines while waiting to have your hair cut.
Given my rapidly expanding baldness though, I keep debating whether to buy some clippers & have done with it - grade2 all over once a fortnight & put the money I'm saving into a bike parts fund...
£28.50 but I go to a hairstylist, not a barber. It shows too.
Two local barbers near me, both charge 9 quid, plus an extra quid if you want your beard tidied. I also give a one pound tip.
One of them I like in particular: it's like a community centre.
!2 pounds for a kebab! That's getting towards sit down meal prices.
Fifteen pounds for me including tip.
NW Cumbria- £10 for a haircut in a hairdressers.
Kebab about £6.50
Norwich, £17 for a medium-s****y gaff.
However...
The Turkish barber does a great cut for £10. That includes an awkward massage, waving a flame around your ears and a sprinkle of lime juice.
£28.50 but I go to a hairstylist, not a barber. It shows too.
Mine costs that if I get two kebabs and a large chips at the same time. It shows too.
£5 for to be clipped.
I bought some clippers but only used them twice then went back to help keep the lass in a job. Support your local and all that. Plus it’s nice to chat to someone.
What is this "hair" of which you speak ?
the price I pay for a hair cut is the sparkling wit and repartee of my wife pretending to be a barber
she doesn't understand (still!) the only thing you should hear in a barbers are the clippers or scissors.
13 quid inc Tea or Coffee plus tip SE London slightly upmarket Barber
£15, but they're very attractive so I don't mind the extra.
£13 here. My barbers is an Italian barbers so I do get 30 minutes of Soprano's style pseudo Italian entertainment and recommendations for the best Mortadella in town.
I'm with Colin. Not paid for a haircut in over 30 years. My personal routine is every 6-8 weeks to run the clippers all over my mop on a grade 3 comb and then get Mrs WF to tidy up around the edges and check I haven't missed a bit.
£7.50 but that's a swift 3 on top 2 round the sides.
More shocked by breadcrumb 'Kebab about £6.50' but then it has been many years since I woke up to find a Kebab in my pocket.
No idea about haircuts, the last one I had I paid for my girlfriend at the same time and it was just shy of three figures.
According to the menus I have in a drawer, the local going rate for a large doner kebab is about four quid.
Also bought clippers many years ago but paid with my dignity on the last cut. Clippers were dying, did my usual cut the night before then catch-all run over in the morning pre-shower. Someone spotted a huge missed bit at work and I'm still getting called tufty!!
My hair gets cut by a principle stylist and it costs me £36, I get properly pampered, there’s food and drink if I want it, a nice wash and shampoo followed by a 10 minute head massage. Some things are worth taking time over, an hour or so in a salon is one of them.
I thought a 50p price hike to £9 recently was a bit of a piss take
55 quid
Last time I went was probably 15 years ago and I think it was £5.
I don't go to barbers for 2 reasons
- I can cut it myself (and not just clippers all over)
- I don't like talking about what holiday I am going on this year
what kind of shop is this 😳No idea about haircuts, the last one I had I paid for my girlfriend at the same time
£12 at the local village barber. Seems reasonable.
What your £55 buys these days
£10 at mine, was £9 but I always gave them a tenner then refused the change. Was a bit of a shock when the price went up after 8 years!
They're good and I rarely have to wait more than 20 mins to be seen, would happily pay around £15 for their service.
£30, in that City of that London. Inc Tip, a nice head massage and a beer if I want one
Another one with clippers here, havent went to a hairdresser's/barbers in about 25 years (think it was still under a fiver last time)
Aberdeenshire, pensioner's rate £4.50. No.3 all over + eyebrows and ears, 10 minutes.
£9 but give her £10 as I don't need to tell her what I want, my head is like an actionman doll, 2 back and sides with a chop off the top
Maybe I'm fussy but some barbers are bowf, maybe too scared to cut enough off. One or two are really quick and competent but not many
Tenner in Kingswinford, Sims barbers. Recommended. Third time now, having moved into the area.
£11 Bristol (outside the city itself though).