Burger all - I spend it all on bikes. Hairdressers scare me 😡 .
I've got a "barberess". She was a bit curvy a year ago, but took up running again. She's tall, blonde and very very fit! Hasn't rubbed her boobs on my head yet though. 😆 Charges a tenner now - worth every penny.
£20 set of clippers and the other halfs boobs rubbed in all sorts of places..... if I ask nicely 😀
Need one tomorrow 😆 😆
as well as having his wife's boobs rubbed all over him!Need one tomorrow
20 ethiopian birr every 5 weeks.
About 90p...
10 mins every week or so.
Clippers at home now but 11 years without cutting it before that.
I did go to the barbers once after that 11 years and said cut it all off. His reply was "You been on f***ing crimewatch."
£6 at the local barbers. About once every 3 weeks or so for a short back and sides...
Just back from Oban where I always go to "Tommy's Top Styles". Tommy qualified in 1961. £5 for all that experience - brilliant.
Hairdressers are often fit but always pretty thick in my experience.
Isn't necessarily a bad thing..
Nowt ... I have some scissors, little idea of what I'm doing and a haircut which proves it!
I once spend £55 on a hair cut...it was 2 days before I got married and forgot to go to the barbers the weekend before so ended up going to some fancy place in Canary Wharf. Got my hair cut by the 'creative sylist', i think that translates to 'wierd looking camp fella, who minces around while cutting your hair'. He said my wife was a lucky lady, so if I ever get bored of her and women, I've got options.
At the weekend I got my hair cut for £8.50 at the local barbers, by a stern looking bloke from Poland...he didn't compliment me once.
But you get what you pay for.
£11 2 or 3 times a year. I often toy with getting some clippers and just going for the number 2 but the GF wouldn't let me- she reckons my head's too big for that sort of haircut.
In the summer months I'll do it at home for free with a set of clippers. Not so confident about that now that I'm single, as before the Gf would tidy up the bits I couldn't see.
When I grow a winter coat, I go to the same hairdresser I have visited for twelve years or more, and for five quid I get a cup of coffee, some good chat, a chance to air some woes, a smart do and, recently, my wee girl gets some French pleats too. Bargain. There's always a tip though, and a bottle of booze at the chrimbo trim.
LOLing at all the blokes talking about their hair like a bunch of gossipy girls.
Just for the record: If I just want my roots doing then graeme on the hair and beauty course will do them plus gossip and scandal thrown in for free. Every 6 weeks my mum ( co owns salon in town) tuts over G's work and does it properly
£37 every 6-8 weeks
£10.50 every 5 or 6 weeks, in fact due a cut now.
Used to pay £30 every 4 weeks when I was younger, thankfully I wised up and realised that I don't suit the cutting edge haircuts I was getting (besides got bored of spending 30 minutes every morning getting my hair looking right!).
clippers for me too... and I even ask myself silly questions like " are you going on holiday?" and then don't listen to my replies, for that full hairdresser experience.
And to the lads who spend £10 and upwards cos the girl is fit... I mean really, cut your own hair and then pop down the local **AHEM* "Gentleman's" Club!
£12 (something like that anyway) every 4 to 6 weeks, at a barbers near where I work. Nice bloke who runs it and cuts really well, the other chair is run by some intimidating East European babuska who's a bit rough but also cuts well - if she listens to what you ask for
I am astounded at the number of people here who use their own clippers.
I bought mine 23 years ago for about £20 (so total saving to date is around 6 x £5 x 23 -£20 = £670 (Wow!))
But I thought I was in an extremely small minority.
Can't say I'd noticed an overly representative number of baldies in the MTB population, so the Singletrack forum must have it's own special demographic.
Maybe Wahl should take out an ad on the site.
£0 every 6 months, to get it back to just fit into a 'pony tail' length, but then my m8's the barber.
£10 once a month.
The other half used to spend £80 - £140 a month on hers........that's a lot of bikes.
£50 for the last one but that included 3 colours and should have been a good bit more - biggest advantage of your local being LGBT friendly??? Loads of hairdressers wanting to do your hair... 🙂
I once had some extensions in - was a bit bonkers - 4 hours with someone pulling at your hair and then you hand over £330.
(yes, I did type that right)
Rachel
£15.50 every month for a Grade 2/3 combo at the local barbers...
Usually between £5-£10 every 2 weeks for a 1 all over. £7 in my local barbers, but usually get it done in works time, where ever I happen to be working 🙂
9 quid every 6-8 weeks. My barber is the best I have ever seen, I've yet to find someone that comes close to his level of ocd'ishness when it comes to cutting hair 🙂
About £15 a year on clippers - then wife shears me every two weeks (ish).
About to pass out at Rachel's £50 per haircut and £330 mission...
£20 on some Wahl clippers 10 years ago and the same ones are still going strong today.
Either a 1 or 0 every 2 weeks. Mrs Skip like a bit of stubble too (rather than me looking like a 10 year old) so even do my chin with it.
Skip - got some deal (half price) on some Remington clippers which are doing very well and then got an "i-trim" for stubbleage - find hair clippers leave it a bit long.
I was told by two people I look a bit like Daniel Craig (I don't) at a party on Saturday (I was all DJ'd up with a "proper" bow tie) with the stubble/short hair look so I was rather pleased. Compliments get rarer and rarer as you get older....!
I bought some clippers 15 years ago (replaced the grade twice) so free hair cuts for me. I do it myself grade one every week or so it is easy even when you take your specs off you feel with one hand and run the clippers over with the other.
In Full Metal Jacket, during the scene where they are all kitted out a guy shears the lot of them. The clippers he uses just rinse through the hair like nobody's business. The ones I have from boots or somewhere are crap and it takes ages to hack through. I do have very thick hair though.
Seeing as there are so many other self administererers of haircuts, what clippers will work like the ones on FMJ?
@Tormnalis - horse ones - I'm not kidding...
Not cheap, mind.
Rachel
Is there anything you can get to slow down hair growth?
i was going through a spate about 7 years ago spending £50 a month. I realised that it was a total waste and bought a pair of clippers, been doing my own ever since
I normally pay £38 - £46 every two or three months. But I did go from the ages of 13 - 24 without having a haircut, so it probably balances out...
You would be able to guess if you saw mine.
Grab it into a ponytail and chop off a few inches once and a while. I do clean the dogs scissors beforehand though.
Plenty. But I'm vain, and make up for it in not spending in other areas.
I worry about the number of people who consider shaving their heads all over to be a hair "style". It's like the "I wear Aldi, me" approach of so many STWers to their sartorial matters.
£5.50 every 3 weeks for a No. 1 all over, at the same local barber's I've been going to for at least 20 years.
If either of the hired hands do it, that gets me a quick going over with the clippers plus a bit of tidying up round the edges. If the proprietor himself does it, the scissors come out as well, and it takes twice as long as he seems to be on a mission to get every single hair [i]exactly[/i] the same length. Can't complain at all about the results from all three, but it always feels like a "proper" haircut when the proprietor does it.
Any blokes that pay over £20... WTF do you get done? Post a picture of these creations...
Anyone else here ever worry about their clippers dying mid cut?
£13 every 6 weeks by a bloke at my local barbers. He's dad to one of the boys in my daughter's class so it's slightly mates rates, and also I'm happy to be paying him rather than a total stranger.
I really resent all you baldy clipper blokes though, with your fantastic money saving tales. I wouldn't dare use them because
1/ I've got ears like a London taxi with both doors open. If I don't keep a decent length it looks chuffing ridiculous
2/ A mate at work bought a pair and got his wife to do a grade 4 all over.
"Whirrrr....clunk!"
"What was that?"
"Umm.... the guard's just fallen off"
so he ended up getting a grade 0 (to match the absolute bald chunk she'd just cut in the back of his thatch), about 2 days before a major customer presentation. He looked an absolute state.
I contemplated using clippers, my wife bought a set but bottled out and refused to do it.
I saw a decent set of clippers which had loads of attachments, but she's a cheapskate and bought a cheapo set from Wilkinsons...I didn't really trust them so glad she bottled out.
When I finally decide that I am going bald (slightly receeding at the moment but I think I get away with it - which probably means I don't), I'll go for the Grant Mitchel look. A few of my friends have and they all look ill, but if it has to be done i'd rather that than a comb over.
I saw a guy in Jessops the other day who had a 'comb forward' he looked ridiculous...I just couldn't understand why no one had told him.
Anyone else here ever worry about their clippers dying mid cut?
That happened to me once, just after I'd cut a nice valley down the centre of my hair in a sort of 'reverse-Mohican' style.
I have to put on my woolly winter hat in the middle of summer and go to Boots to buy a new set of clippers.
I just couldn't understand why no one had told him
cos it's much funnier to take the p1ss behind his back.
