Beauty

[EnglishRose88]

I pay $19.00 for shampoo, haircut, blow dry and flat iron. I color my own hair with Colorsilk Hair Color ($2.97 a box....$6.00 total because I need to bottles to cover all of my hair.) I would never pay such outrageous prices for a cut and color!

[rudy]

On 9/11/2014 gardensla said:

I'm amazed that anything thinks $50.00 is a lot for a hair cut!

Me, too! I was trying to remember the last time a haircut cost that little in my large metropolitan city. Probably more than twenty years ago.

[moonstone dunes]

I've just started going to Great Clips. My last cut was $15 plus tip. The stylists aren't top-level but they do what I ask. I wash my hair first and leave with some curl cream in my hair. My hair is long and I have a few inches cut off the length and the front layers shaped up. I was going to a full-service salon - to expensive - $45 plus tip for 5 minutes of haircut.

[gazelle77]

On 9/10/2014 Jane Di said:

I work at Great Clips and speak very good English (that's all I speak).

I have just had bad experiences with Great Clips the times I used them... I did not mean to hurt your feelings....and not to say you are not very good. I think they just hire people right out of school and customers become test clients sometimes.

[sparklestar]

On 9/11/2014 QVCfan1121 said:

You can't put a price on a good haircut and an expensive cut does not necessarily mean it will be good. I always tip at least 20% and will tip more when an exceptional cut or color though can't seem to find a stylist who can be consistent.

[Ranchergal]

One of the perks of living in a small town is that we can still get great haircuts for $15-$25. Since the haircuts are so cheap I tip 30-40%.

[RainyDayGal]

On 9/10/2014 gazelle77 said:

On 9/10/2014 JeanLouiseFinch said:

You did great! 20% of your bill is perfect! Expensive haircut, though. I hope you're happy with it.

Unless you go to a great clips of the like( no one speaks English...) it is hard to find a decent place in the Seattle area that charges less. My husband only pays $40.00 and my hair is shorter than his! ......I got it cut like Pink's cut, short on sides, longer on top. My hair is white naturally so it looks pretty nice!

I'd be happy with $50. I went to a salon in the southeast area and paid $80 (that didn't include the tip) and I hate it. My previous salon charges $70 for a cut. And what makes me angry is they consider snipping 1/2" off just the ends a cut.

[lavendar]

Do the chains like Great Clip do a wash and blow dry?

I have roots done every five weeks and pay thirty five dollars extra for a wash and blow dry. The salon used to be directly across the street from me and I'd run home and blow dry. They've moved; not far but it was freezing this winter and I got the blow dry. And I LOVE IT! I simply can't blow dry my hair to look like that. I'm trying to cut my shopping costs. I have enough clothes and jewelry to last ten years. But when people look at me after a good blow dry they always tell me I have beautiful hair, I look younger, etc. I have coarse, dry hair and can easily go a week between good washings. My mother, who had gorgeous silver white hair went three. Same texture.

Fifty three bucks for a cut is the lowest I've found in Cambridge MA. Used to be fifty but they've all gone up three bucks. I tip a few bucks over twenty percent. My colorist saves me money and the woman who gives me the best cut I've found in twenty years always fits me in. I also try to pay her cash because it costs her a few dollars less. These people are very important to me.

Gardens, my niece used to go to a high end salon in Manhattan: she teaches third grade there and a mother did her color and gave her a huge gift certificate twice a year. That's over now. She sees someone else in Brooklyn where she lives. If I hadn't seen the expensive color I wouldn't have realized the difference. She looks good now but she looked amazing before.

[lavendar]

I meant to say the mother of one of her students. Actually three; they were siblings.

[Lipstickdiva]

On 9/11/2014 lavendar said:

Do the chains like Great Clip do a wash and blow dry?

I have roots done every five weeks and pay thirty five dollars extra for a wash and blow dry. The salon used to be directly across the street from me and I'd run home and blow dry. They've moved; not far but it was freezing this winter and I got the blow dry. And I LOVE IT! I simply can't blow dry my hair to look like that. I'm trying to cut my shopping costs. I have enough clothes and jewelry to last ten years. But when people look at me after a good blow dry they always tell me I have beautiful hair, I look younger, etc. I have coarse, dry hair and can easily go a week between good washings. My mother, who had gorgeous silver white hair went three. Same texture.

Fifty three bucks for a cut is the lowest I've found in Cambridge MA. Used to be fifty but they've all gone up three bucks. I tip a few bucks over twenty percent. My colorist saves me money and the woman who gives me the best cut I've found in twenty years always fits me in. I also try to pay her cash because it costs her a few dollars less. These people are very important to me.

Gardens, my niece used to go to a high end salon in Manhattan: she teaches third grade there and a mother did her color and gave her a huge gift certificate twice a year. That's over now. She sees someone else in Brooklyn where she lives. If I hadn't seen the expensive color I wouldn't have realized the difference. She looks good now but she looked amazing before.

If you pay extra.

The only time they shampoo your hair without charging separately is if you get color because it has to be washed out.