Expensive hair cut

Shaun @ Tru6 · 07-31-2020, 05:03 AM

Have you ever had an expensive hair cut? I got my first one yesterday. Girlfriend booked it at her salon. I have been paying $17 + $5 tip for the last 10 years at an old school barber shop in Harvard Square. Always a good cut, never a complaint.

Depending on your hair (not for everyone), I can tell you an $80 hair cut and $20 tip is absolutely worth it. 100%. The skill my stylist had was true craftsman. Choose any good to exceptional analogy you want, his work was worth the price. Honestly thought a hair cut was a hair cut for years especially since they were always good. But I am happy to pay for and reward excellence. $20 tip was earned. Three cuts a year is definitely not too much to pay.

Sooner or later · 07-31-2020, 05:05 AM

Lap dance included?

Baz · Baz's Garage

My last one was $5 + $5 tip = $10 total.

In and out in 10 minutes.

Shaun @ Tru6 · 07-31-2020, 05:07 AM

No but the scalp massage by the hot chick washing my hair was pretty amazing.

David · David's Garage

The best haircut I’ve had was at Trufitt & Hill in Bangkok. It was about $30 so expensive compared to my normal cut. I imagine it’s more in their western shops. The skill of the Lebanese barber was far and above any other barber I’ve had.

masraum · 07-31-2020, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Have you ever had an expensive hair cut? I got my first one yesterday. Girlfriend booked it at her salon. I have been paying $17 + $5 tip for the last 10 years at an old school barber shop in Harvard Square. Always a good cut, never a complaint.

Depending on your hair (not for everyone), I can tell you an $80 hair cut and $20 tip is absolutely worth it. 100%. The skill my stylist had was true craftsman. Choose any good to exceptional analogy you want, his work was worth the price. Honestly thought a hair cut was a hair cut for years especially since they were always good. But I am happy to pay for and reward excellence. $20 tip was earned. Three cuts a year is definitely not too much to pay.

You're going to have to advise WHY it was so much better. Was it because the actual cut was better (your hair looks different than it ever has before) or because of the extras that you get for the extra $77 or ...?

Seahawk · 07-31-2020, 05:46 AM

I have friends that swear by their more upscale stylists...I have been seeing the same Korean woman for 30 years.

She owns the place and she cuts my hair perfectly. $17 scooters for the cut, add tip for $25 out the door.

Now, if I move or she retires, I'm screwed.

944 S2 · 07-31-2020, 05:51 AM

Wow....Three cuts a year!

ckelly78z · 07-31-2020, 05:52 AM

My stylist is my wife with a set of clippers on the 1/2" setting, and 10 minutes....although I do pay a lot for that privilege !

masraum · 07-31-2020, 05:54 AM

The only way that I can see a haircut being worth 4-5x (or more for some of you) the going rate is if you're getting a bunch of extras and the atmosphere is nice.

If the expensive "haircut" takes an hour and you get a shave, shampoo, haircut, neck/shoulder massage, warm face towel, VIP treatment and the place looks, smells and sounds amazing, then I could maybe see it. Versus a quick haircut with no shave, no shampoo, etc... just a haircut. Then we're comparing a nice high end restaurant with great food, atmosphere and impeccable service to McD's or Chilis which is understandable.

But if you're talking a haircut vs a haircut, then I don't see how it's possible for one to be worth that much more than the other.

Baz · Baz's Garage

For things like this, I place a lot of value on getting in and out quickly.

I think though there are some places that feel the longer they keep you there - the more they want you to feel you are getting your money's worth.

I can't prove it - but have always had a sneaky suspicion this is why so many church services last so damn long.

Get me in - get the job done - and then get me out!

MBAtarga · 07-31-2020, 06:17 AM

I usually use my Wahl trimmer with a #2 comb (more recently during the summer #1) and my wife trims my neckline - this every month or so. I have gone to a nearby SportClips the past several years periodically in preparation of attending special events. Sounds ridiculous but the first 4 or 5 "stylists" I tried just didn't give a decent cut - I'd come home and end up patching up their handiwork. I finally found 1 gal that can duplicate my own haircut. I usually just get a cut ($15 for seniors and $5 tip) but sometimes splurge for the MVP cut - the warm menthol towel during shampoo and the scalp and neck massage is a bonus. I've joked that they just need to serve single malt to make it the ultimate.

bob deluke · bob deluke's Garage

Can’t remember who was the guy running for president awhile ago who said he paid $400.00 for a haircut. That got out in the news and he tanked pretty quickly after that. You’re not running for any political office are you Shaun?

Dantilla · 07-31-2020, 06:22 AM

Gotta stick with my inexpensive guy to keep up with the small-town gossip.

Never know if he will be open.
Sometimes he decides to go fishing instead of opening up his one-man shop.

javadog · 07-31-2020, 06:26 AM

The most expensive haircut I ever got was in Boston. I was on a trip in 2001 and decided to get my hair cut one day. Maybe somewhere on or near Beale street... I didn't ask the price and left 80 or 100 bucks poorer. Wasn't happy at the time, the haircut was nothing special.

I routinely spend around 50 to 60 bucks, maybe a little more, for my haircuts. Shampooed twice, shoulder massage, hot towels for the face, straight blade shave for the neck, etc... Takes an hour, or more. Worth it.

Ziggythecat · 06:37 AM

I found myself in the hands off an old school 78 year old Italian barber a few weeks ago.
It came complete with the a straight razor cut to feather in the layers on the side, and a hot shaving cream shave of the back of my neck, and his wife told dirty jokes while I sat there.

It's the way I used to get them as a kid, except we had Superman comics to keep us occupied.

30 +$10 tip

My regular gal is 50, but she took her kids and moved back to Albania for the duration..

Otter74 · 07-31-2020, 06:39 AM

Many years ago, in my mid-20s, I decided to get rid of my bowl cut and came to Chicago with a friend for the weekend and went to a fancy salon on Oak St. (my mom's friend suggested it) and completely changed my hair and dyed it black and added a color streak (what the hell) and that was, for almost 20 years, by far the most expensive haircut I'd gotten. That was done as sort of a one-off special experience.

My normal haircuts for years have been around $15-$20 including tip. This February my girlfriend said, "do you want to go to Paris to get haircuts?" I said, "Um, sure." So we flew to Paris for a three-day weekend and got haircuts at the place she likes there. I have no idea how much the whole experience cost (this is the kind of thing she does), but obviously this was one expensive-ass haircut. But damn, that was one f***ing good haircut. The guy who cut my hair had tremendous but effortless attention to detail, took his time, and it looked fantastic. This was immediately pre-COVID so it was four months before I got another haircut, and it *still* looked great four months later. So I'm sold. My sweetie loved it as much as I did, so now she schedules me with the woman who does her hair here.

HardDrive · 07-31-2020, 06:40 AM

30 year old Wahl clippers, #5 guard, done. Wife cleans up my neck.

javadog · 07-31-2020, 06:43 AM

I'm always amazed by these stories of using a pair of clippers to give yourself a haircut. I couldn't ever do that.

It's less like a haircut and more like, I don't know... weedeating the yard.

Perplexed by it, I am.

Tobra · Tobra's Garage

I dated someone who was a high end hair cut gal. She got $50 plus tip in the 1990's, or about 5 times what Supercuts charged at the time. Ebullient personality, looked like Bree Olsen's sister, did a good job cutting my hair, which is apparently challenging due to the waviness. She married some guy that ended up pitching for the Yankees apparently.

Could not find anyone here, wife got tired of the bad haircuts, started doing it herself so it would be how she wanted it. I guess it looks okay, that is what I am told anyway. She does every bit as good a job as the people that charged me $50. I really don't care and would do it myself with the Wahl clippers once a week if it were up to me.

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Originally Posted by 944 S2

Wow....Three cuts a year!

I wish, I start looking shaggy after 3 weeks.

$1500 a year is a bit much for haircuts, not worth it to me, no matter who is rubbing their chest on me. They charge women a lot more for haircuts than men, no idea why. I guess because they can.