Hair Care

I color at home, and pay around $40 for a trim every 8 weeks or so. I would LOVE to be blond, but it is just too expensive to keep up. That is a car payment!!

These dollar amounts totally freak me out...like the other person said, that is a car payment (or mortgage payment, even). WOW.

I have only had highlights done professionally, about 10 years ago and I think it cost only $50-60. I loved the results, but when I went back a second time after a couple of months, I was very disappointed that even a professional could not perfectly "match up" the old/new highlights to my satisfaction. I am way too OCD for that business - and went back to dark hair.

Honestly to me the majority of people who go to salons and pay hundreds for their services look no different than those who do their own stuff at home. I know that's an unpopular opinion, but whatever. A friend of mine has long, dark auburn hair and she pays around $200/month for salon services but her hair looks awesome for 3-4 days and then it has the same greying roots and greasy look as it did before she started "professional upkeep".

OTOH, I had a boss whose hair looked exactly like Jennifer Aniston's. Perfectly shiny with about 10 colors of gold-blond-honey going on. It was gorgeous hair and I know she paid dearly for it, probably close to the $500 you mentioned. But I could kind of understand that for her, she was a professional in the public eye and her hair was by far her best feature/asset physically speaking.

I don't color my hair or anything. I usually just get it trimmed, sometimes layered a bit, so my trips to the hair salon are very easy. I used to go to a chain and get a $15 trim. I recently found a local place that does a wash, cut, and dry for $13 and the lady that works there is really experienced, unlike the chains where you get girls just out of cosmetology school. I go about every 5 months. I need to start going more often though. But yeah, I can't relate at all to you guys spending hundreds at fancy salons haha

I'm 59 now and for years I fussed with my hair. It was always fine, and sick straight, golden blonde up until 20 when it darkened to ash blonde. I hated it, so started painting lightened streaks in myself---I've always been artistic. I also paid for permanents for years, which dried out my hair and made it brittle. I started swimming 19 years ago and the clorine dried it out even more. I started putting on a moisturizing pack, a cloth swim cap,and then a slicone one. I swim for an hour and my hair gets a beauty treatment 4 times a week. I then shampoo, moisturize, and put on a linseed oil for shine and suppleness. I no longer get permanents---I decided to live with the hair God gave me. After i began menopause my hair started to get naturally wavey--oh the irony after a lifetime of permanents. Now I have great hair. I stick it in a pony tail and I've done the shading thing--left the roots darker shading into blonde at the ends. I still touch up with lightening streaks myself. My hair is smooth and silky, and I wish I'd done this 20 yrs ago. I get a cut and blowdry every 2 months and leave it shoulder length, with a simple cut. No worries, no hassles, and no expense. My advice is to simplify as much as you can, and do what you can yourself. Best

You can also try a beauty school! An instructor supervises a student, and it's super cheap! I go to this chain of beauty schools: http://www.marinello.com/beauty-schools/santa-clara-ca/Guest-Services.aspx

I spend $180 (with tip) to get full highlights and a cut. My guy used to work with some celebrities in LA and was a national color instructor at Aveda. He does such an amazing job on highlights that I once went 6 months before I had to go again... and my hair grows SO fast.. But he does them in a way that it really isn't obvious when it's growing out. He's super awesome.

Holy cow...I go to a privately owned salon and pay $75 for multicolor high and low lights, shampoo and a cut!

I have a serious amount of very long hair, and I go to a privately owned salon about every three-four months. I get highlights and lowlights, (full foil) a trim and my eyebrows waxed, and buy a product or two and it's a usually about $120. It takes 2-3 hours.

I usually go every 6 weeks and typically my bill is around $170 or so. Usually color, cut, highlights.

Hey all,

How much does it cost you to go to the salon and get your hair done? What do you have done? How frequently do you go? Do you go to a chain or 'private' salon?

I'm asking because I began my little hair-dying-regimen when I was 13. The first time ever I had my dirty blonde hair (which was beginning to darken) bleached, trimmed and had red low lights put in. It was $500 with a tip, shampoo, conditioner, etc at Dillards.
A few things happened and that was no longer affordable (I was going every 3 weeks and it was about $350). I got my hair dyed brown by a friend (natural color) and left it be for a few years.

..then I wanted to be blonde again, went to a cute little privately owned salon, and back to $400-$500 bills. I thought that was extreme, so I went to another guy I knew who does hair and, again, $400. This was for Caucasian hair that has been classified as a blonde (Darkest shade), not super thick hair, going to a lighter base with bleached streaks. It just sounds RIDICULOUS.

Where do you guys go, what do you pay? I don't know if I can keep up this extreme stuff for too long. >_>

That price is INSANE. I used to get the trim/highlights/style and it was around $120ish (without tip) every 6 weeks or so.