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After years of giving myself a grade 1 all over I ventured into a barber shop a few months ago to beat some style onto my head. He does a reasonable job, charges £8.95 and provides all the right-wing drivel you could wish for.
Fancy a change though, see if someone else can do a better job. Spotted a good looking shop today, according to their website, prices start from £20. That smarts a bit to me, but is that likely to be good value?
What do you pay?
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£12 @ The Gentry in Kendal you get offered a bottled beer and the ladies are very attractive but I only let the owner give me my hipster cut 🙂
£8 from the woman in the university hairdressers. She used to work in a prison, ideal. I go in, say "Make this look boring", she nails it every time
£7 for a 6 & 3 clipper cut.
£8.50 for a '[i]grade 2 on the sides and back, a bit longer on top[/i]". Same description every time, looks the same every time. Perfect.
£20 every 2 months.
£6.50. Does a perfectly acceptable job.
£13 including washing at a local salon - was 9 quid till a couple of months ago.
£30-£35 every 6-8 weeks.
7 quid + 3 quid tip.
£6.50 for a 1 all over
It will be between 8 and 20 depending on where and what, got the beard to consider too.
It varies from a tidy up, all the same length, too shape the beard etc. Seem to be getting a long list of places in cities I visit for work, just easier some times
I had a haircut once in 1989.
Doubt I'll do it again.
For those getting cuts with clippers is it really better than DIY?
Better than DIY? Much easier for them to see the back of your head...
$25 today.
Usually it's about £15 in the UK.
Paid the equivalent of £6 in whistler & it looked like a chimp had been let loose on it. Got in done in Van last week for the equivalent of £14 & it was much better.
I used to pay £10 when down south but only pay £5 since moving north
£10 but then every 5th one is half price. It's a little one chair shop just a minute walk from my house. The young lady who owns it is very pleasant, there's no coffee or dilly dallying, just a haircut and I'm on my way again.
I had a haircut once in 1989.
Doubt I'll do it again.
Similar but not quite that far back.
Think my costs are approximately 12p for each haircut with my current set of clippers. I could probably do with buying a back up set soon, only so I don't have to go to the supermarket electrical aisle wearing a hat to hide half a head of hair.
I mean, it's got to happen sooner or later.
£7 plus a £1 tip.
£9 from my usual place and £10 from the one by work (you know, the nice old Italian guy - not the racist barber across the road).
£6.50 from the one round the corner, this is up North(ish). Used to be around £12 down South.
I've paid with my freedom (wife does mine).
20 euros! It's the only place that doesn't do appointments. There is a barber in my hometown that I took my eldest to last year during a visit to the grandparents. I used to be taken there as a young boy in the 70s and the place hadn't changed since then. Felt like a musuem and a trip down memory lane.
i hate having my haircut. its akin to visiting the dentist.
i dont want to waste any of my precious weekend having it cut either so i have to do at a lunchtime during the week which means central london prices. I go to a Turk in Clerkenwell, £25 includes haircut, shave & hot towels, they always do a satisfactory job and best of all, no effing chit chat! i pay for silence.
Been going to the same girl for ten years she works for herself and moves salon occasionally. I pay about £15 but she is really good and I book an appointment so don't have to spend any time queueing. Have had a lot of good chats over the years.
Tenner for a '2 on the sides, trim on the top' and minimal chat (although the new guy at the barbers this week did try to engage me on Corbyn - "if he gets in he'll have us all on bikes and playing 100% tax")
£5 at blind Pugh in the link,just have to hope that there's no on the tv as he is easily distracted. . I almost lost an ear when man u scored!! 😯
£10 for 1 on the back and sides, 3 on top. LOADS of monarchist and right wing drivel but I do pull his leg and I quite like him. He struggles to not physically erupt at some of my comments.
My girlfriend has done my hair with scissors for years. The first attempt was with kitchen scissors after a bottle of wine. Instead of giving me a mirror to check her work she just fell about laughing. Thankfully a decade later she is really good at it, and the cost has been 1 pair of decent scissors.
£25 every 6 weeks, includes wash, head massage, cut, style and a drink.
Bought some clippers about 4yrs ago and trim once a week. So roughly 10p. Mrs t seems to think that it's her duty to make up for my lack of hair(cuts) by spending about £50!
£3.99 T Easy Barber. Gossipy vacuous conversation with the heavily tattooed stylists. Who are quite cute. Not as good quality cut as I used to get for £9 mind.
😐Brought
I've no right to be a grammar/spelling pedant, but that one always peeves me.
Clippers here too - the back must not be too bad and I pass the 'safe to leave the house' inspection by my more sartorial better half.
£10 inc tip in Jocks the Barbers, she keeps offering an eyebrow trim which is a sad reflection on how old I am.
Used to be £7 in Taffy's in Skewen, one type of cut, didn't matter what you asked for you always came out looking like a butchered turnip.
Better than DIY? Much easier for them to see the back of your head...
Not sure how you can do it wrong with clippers assuming cutting fairly short.
Convert, it was auto correct wot dun it. Edited now. 😀
I admire the bravery of those that wind up the lunatic right wingers while they stand next to your ears with the sharpest scissors known to man!
£12 here, used to be £9.50 but went up by a pound and then they added a premium for scissor vs clippers. But you do get a beer or a decent coffee while you wait.
£9 from the same bloke I have been going to for nearly 12 years. Before that it was £6 from a bloke I went to for ten years.
I value consistency.
£10 for a Turkish head shave, but other than that, £0. As it's a clippers job, with no guard.
£3.99? Jesus, how do they even pay for electricity?
I pay £0.00. You don't need to cut dreads much.
£9.50 every 6 weeks with John in the village or £14 100m down the road with the lovely laydeez.
Our village is pretty small and yet it still manages to pack in 5 'hair dressers'!
