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This might be a strange topic to put on the forum but I am really truly naffed off with hairdressers at the moment. In our local village there are 8 hairdressers but they are so expensive a cut and colour is anywhere between £45 and £80. I cant afford that every six to seven weeks so I am using a hairdresser out of the village who I like her colour but her hair cutting is sometimes good and sometimes bad. This month it is bad and I am fed up trying to explain how I want my hair cut and ending up with nothing like it. Can someone explain why hairdressers cant cut the same cut each time you go, especially if you have been going for years.

Personally I think that when you use a hairdresser for a long time they start taking you for granted and dont make any effort, whereas if you are new they try hard to keep you going. rant over

I won't go to a "normal" hairdresser as I find they turn into ego maniacs with mad ideas when you let them loose with a pair of scissors.

I was paying up £100 to have my (long) hair cut and coloured and didn't always get what I wanted. Plus I was having to spend £20 to have my hair blow dried which REALLY annoyed me as I never blow dry my hair! Company policy is that you can't leave with wet hair

So, now I go to the local training school and have a trainee cut my hair, very closely supervised by several other people. In the past 5 years I have always, without exception, got what I wanted. They keep good records on past visits and best of all, the maximum I have been charged for a full colour, plus a full head of foils and a cut was £25. It's brilliant.

That really is serious money.
I have a no.4 clipper cut and it costs me £6!

John

At the training school that would cost you £1.50

I have to say that mine started out at £15 and then went up as my hair grew ever longer. They charge on the amount of product they use, so it's proportional and until recently I had very long hair.

Dear Catherine, if you want to save some money, i'm quite good at topiary.

When i go to the hairdressers i always make the young girls laugh, when they ask me how i would like it, i just tell them to hack some off.

i bought a set of clippers off ebay , i do the boy's the wife does mine and the daughter dissapeers , she wont let me near with a pair of scissors since i trimmed the fringe out of her eyes when she was two

My beloved has never had had his hair or beard cut professionally. He waits till he looks like Father Christmas (actually, he has been mistaken for Professor Bellamy once or twice), then I am let loose on his noddle with an electric hair and beard trimmer and, hey presto, he looks all smart and tidy again at no cost at all! I used to be quite nervous about doing it but after nearly half a century, I've become quite proficient at it!

Speaking of cost: I get my own three-monthly shearing at our one village hairdresser, who works all on her own, for £14 and it takes only 15 minutes, including washing and drying. And jolly good she is, too.

I agree.....the cost is terrible. I used to go to a hairdresser and she does a special offer of a cut, full colour and blow dry for £35........which isn't bad.

I get my daughter to colour my hair, and I pay the girl over the road £8 for a cut and blow dry.

I refuse to go to a salon now.............plus, the bloody stupid conversation gets on my nerves.

"re you going out at the weekend........where are you going on holiday.......done anything nice."

Why can't they just do the job without the inane chatter? That's what really puts me off

May i just ask, when all you young ladies keep mentioning having your hair coloured, does it mean you have all had a blue rinses.

Have you been spying on me OH?

Oh OH you shouldn't ask such questions - blue rinse - never.

I've been following this thread with interest. I thought I was the only one that thought hairdressers were getting outragously expensive, never mind the on going chat across the top of clients heads. the cup of coffee made with dried milk, the deafening radio. What used to be a relaxing experience is now more frightening than than the dentist (for me anyway). Maybe OH offer of a trim is not such a bad idea after all.

Beryl.

Dear OH Thanks for the offer of topiary but I think that is what I am getting at the moment. I forgot to mention that my daughter is a professional hairdresser retired to have a baby but she refuses to cut or colour my hair if fact I have just spoken to her tonight to see if she would do it for me and I have had about half a dozen excuses why she could not do it.

I always cut my OH's hair with the hair clippers on No. 2 He is always very happy.
I am going to make an appointment with the training school in Skipton.

Do you know after the last three replies, it has really made me realise how kind you all are to tolerate my constant nonsense.

And for this i can't thankyou enough.

Dear OH Your post is showing 9.29pm but on my clock is showing 9.12pm Are you ahead of our time.

Oh my post is showing 10.14 so I must have a problem with my computer please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. !!!