[Closed] How much are you paying for a hair cut?

Welshfarmer you are not far off

£21 at mine in Tunbridge wells, good mate does it so it’s a bit of a therapy session as much as it is a hair cut

Used to pay £25 twice a year at a salon owned by someone i knew (sort of a mate) but last time i was in for a cut (before previous election) we got onto politics and he professed a liking for Nigel Farage as in "he talks a lot of sense, i can see where he comes from - i'm voting brexit" (he's originally from manchester but moved up to scotland years ago). I walked out and bought a set of clippers for £20 and now i'm quite happy to have a grade 1 all over.

£11 usually, the barber asked last time if I qualified for the OAP rate of £7.50.

I'm 54, I was quite pissed off about it.

My local trendy barbers has a queue outside the door at 8.30am.... it doesn't open until 9am.

I sat in there and worked out the four barbers on duty were averaging 5 cuts each per hour at £15 a go. It doesn't take a genius to work out that the turnover is well over £250k ! for cutting hair! No wonder barbers shops are springing up all over the place. In the last few years our town has gone from 2, to 8 (that I can think of)

@zilog6128

No idea about haircuts, the last one I had I paid for my girlfriend at the same time

what kind of shop is this 😳

years ago I got my hair cut in indonesia and they tried to arrange for me to go for a date with their daughter while I was there... the prevalence of cut-throat razors made me decline the offer!

Nowadays I do it myself, grade 4 round the back and side, grade 5 on top - noones openly laughed at me yet

Mine is just under £20 but the Barber comes to me. I've been doing this for two years and she cut my hair at the trendy place in town for a few years beforehand - which is now £30 a go (as good as they are that would annoy me).

£8 for the Turkish lads who opened up in Whitefield not so long ago - in the middle of Manchester there are still barbers around the £10 mark if you hunt (a cut in time in the NQ is still doing £9 cuts)

Own set of clippers for the past ~20 years or so, sadly the days of attractive hairdressers pushing their ample sized breasts into my head while cutting my hair are long gone. 🙁

Genuine LOL @blurty.

£20 at my vegan barber shop in Exeter. It's quite hip in a good way so I get to feel down with the kidz. It's also the only cut that I've ever had compliments on.

£8.50 and I pay £10, in the building where I work. Never takes much more than 10 mins (I always let a new person know that I like quick.)

Going anywhere nice on holiday?

£15 in a Lincoln salon; usually every 4 weeks.
Before moving here I used to drive from Leeds to Sheffield and pay £35.

£4 at my local barbers but they don't call him 'Bodger Baz' for nothing.

I usually go a Turkish barbers near work nowadays. Costs £9 but this includes a de-fuzzing of the ears, back of the neck etc and a lovely lemon scented head spray when they have finished.

£42 for me and my son in Bath. That's about 40 mins for mine and 20 for his. Includes, tea, biscuits, head massage, etc. Nice place, been going for years and it's cheaper now that it was 10 years ago.

£12 + £1 tip

I would be much more interested in hearing about the tip side of things. I usually give a quid on top, but no idea if that's acceptable to be honest. I do sometimes wonder if a quid is more insulting than giving nothing!

do sometimes wonder if a quid is more insulting than giving nothing!

Nah. I mean I'm 50p classier for sure, but it's just a little bit of a round up. I got a long way through adult life before I found out about and got comfortable with tipping for a haircut.

That includes an awkward massage, waving a flame around your ears and a sprinkle of lime juice.

Is this the haircut or the kebab ?

£16, today

£14. Great place, and can book using queue junkie which means I get the barber I want!

Went to someone in Bath since 1979, my then g/f went to her, but I would just pitch up on the off-chance when I happened to be in the city. Lately her opening hours had become a bit unpredictable, which coincided with a bloke opening a barber shop in a little place next to a chippy down the road, which I walk past on a Saturday on my way into town, so very handy.
He charges £10 and does a pretty good job, where I used to go was £10, then £15, so I’m £5 up and I don’t have to drive to Bath. 😁

Nowt my missus is a hair stylist ( now mobile ) ..I'm always last in the queue mind so not exactly a great advert as it's always way overdue ..it actually boils my piss at the pittance she charges blokes for their haircuts (£5) who never ever leave a tip ..and even women who get charged at least half what they would pay on the high street..for a lesser job .
But having wasted my breath countless times telling her to up her prices .. I've given up ..
She really should just register as charity ..

What I really love is that there can't be any questions left that haven't been asked before on here:

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-for-a-haircut/

I'm even more worried that I can't remember what happened last weekend but I can remember that the price of haircuts has been discussed here before

£9 at my wife's salon in Norton Stourbridge.

I changed barber recently as the one near home was taking over an hour at the weekend and I'd rather do something better with my time. So tried a couple in town, one cut one of my moles, he then said "I don't usually cut people", well thanks for making an exception, never went back. Tried another and he went on about how much he had to work to avoid income tax, hated him, never went back.

There's a smallish chain near work to city centre which are pricey, i.e. £21 a go, but short queue time and inspite of the neck tatt's and ladishness they seem to be ok. For me the price isn't as important as the speed and convenience!

£15 for a trim & beard trim out of hours at our local friendly star wars themed barber

Retro where are you based to be paying £13 for a large donner? Chicken or Lamb shish must be £15 upwards!

My last few haircuts have been free cos I gave the barber some trim of my car I was scrapping, otherwise I pay him a fiver, sometimes it shows...

£11 for just a haircut at the local Turkish barber in Littlehampton, £22 for shave and beard trim as well. That includes hot towel, lemon/mentholy face balm, eyebrow trim and ear fire(the last two were not needed in my younger days). Unusually chuck him £25 and walk out feeling fresh.

oikeith
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Retro where are you based to be paying £13 for a large donner? Chicken or Lamb shish must be £15 upwards!

South Essex. Talk about kicking a man when he's already down!

£12 this morning. It was £8 last month in the same place!
Mind you he hasn't put his prices up in the 5 or 6 years I have been going there and he now has 2 minions working for him so can't complain.

£8.50 so pay a tenner. He works on his own in a small parade of shops, he says that the turnover he has is enough but no need for a second person.

There's a lot of Turkish barbers opened up on the high street, one seems to be favoured by local celebs and footballers, his instagram videos all look very dramatic with over the shoulder and head massages.

£15 for the local village barber, £30 in London if I pop out at lunch. That gets a wash too, which is a gloriously relaxing thing.

Only time I ever use cash too, as no barber shop ever seems to take cards. Not at all suspicious...

I just have to ask Mrs SR nicely when she has 20 minutes. She has been cutting my hair for years.

That said, there is a mobile barber that often parks up close to our house who charges £8 per cut.

We're in Cardiff.

The wife does mine with some clippers. Unfortunately I have to vacuum the kitchen floor afterwards; so no tip.

Most of the 'Turkish' barbers around Matlock/ Bakewell way are about a tenner. They sort the rogue hair from the nose, ear and eyebrows out, and as an old squaddie the one style they deliver is good for me.

£12 in a popular part of Bristol - they do a thorough job and take their time.

£8 from the wifes mates salon, usually give her a tenner. Some lads at work pay £20 for what I can see is the same thing in more hipster surroundings. Going thin on top so it'll just be getting clippered off in afew years I'm sure

£13 (three chairs and a barber, Reading) , quality varies depending which person you get.

Where's that then?

I'm in Reading and the missus says I need to get a "proper haircut" not the monthly DIY grade 3 I've had for the last twenty odd years. I have a mate who swears by the Turkish place in Tilehurst, mostly because of their nostril and ear hair burning technique...

Pay? I bought some clippers 30 years ago and haven’t paid since.

That's not a haircut tho.

£15 in a salon in suburban Edinburgh

How many barbers people are going to have card payment machines? The only place I need a pound coin these days is the Tesco trolley and at my barber's, he also seems to have a very small float so I feel guilty when I use half of it at 8:30am on a Saturday morning. Unless you're avoiding tax surely a card machine makes sense for a business whose standard payment is £11?!

This thread is making me see the upsides of being a baldy. I pay roughly £16 a quarter for a pack of blades for the Headblade Moto and shave the whole lot every couple of days whilst in the shower. Beard trim costs £10 at an appointment only barbers and that includes a drink most times. They also take card payment.

13 quid in Hull, including beard shaping and a hot towel shave around the throat. Always give 'em 15 quid. That's at the Turkish place, the slightly fancier place is the same place but you don't get the hot towel. They do have 6 Music in instead of crap telly though, so it's a trade off.

£20 at my vegan barber shop in Exeter. It’s quite hip in a good way so I get to feel down with the kidz.

WTF is a vegan barber?

WTF is a vegan barber?

I drop my wig off and go get a sandwich, pick it up fully fluffed..

£20

Seems a lot of folk on this thread are being fleeced.