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Post by grampa on Sept 18, 2017 9:32:40 GMT
Whilst away in Oxford this weekend, we visited nearby Woodstock ahead of a visit to Blenheim Palace. Wandering around the village, we went past a Barber Shop and having missed a chance to get a hair cut before I left and seeing no-one waiting I went in. Being of a 'follically challenged' age, I just need my hair running over with a 'No 2' clipper - for which I was charged £15.50.
£15.50?! - at home I pay £5, or £7 if I go to the Turkish barber who adds a bit of a song-and-dance with a cut throat shave of the back of your neck and burning off of ear hair.
So the RDQ - what do you pay for a haircut at a barber - i.e. not a flashy unisex hairdresser?
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Post by humphreythepug on Sept 18, 2017 9:36:36 GMT
I pay £11:00, they do a good job too, far better than any hairdressers that I used to frequent and pay a damn sight more for the privilege.
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Post by Martin on Sept 18, 2017 9:45:19 GMT
I pay £15 in the local Barbers. I think it's £12 if you just turn up and wait, but they're always packed with a 1-2hrs wait in the evenings/weekend, so it's well worth an extra £3 plus you choose who you get (the owner in my case).
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Post by johnc on Sept 18, 2017 9:54:42 GMT
I use a client (for obvious reasons) and pay about £40 which includes a nice head massage.
If they weren't a client I would also be at the local £5 barber but they are too good a client to snub. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 10:15:16 GMT
€12 at the local flashy unisex hairdressers. No appointment required for Gents.
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Post by cbeaks1 on Sept 18, 2017 10:41:17 GMT
DIY.
Free.
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 18, 2017 10:41:48 GMT
My hair is extremely straight and now thinning on top but I don't suit a buzz cut, so until such time as that becomes inevitable, I prefer a decent haircut from someone with a modicum of skill. I've tried a couple of "barbers" but the results have always been deeply unflattering. As such, I go to the local unisex Italian hairdresser in Parsons Green who is about £30, which includes a free coffee. But I only get my hair cut about every 6-8 weeks, so that helps.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 10:56:31 GMT
Clippered at home once a week. A pair of Wahl clippers costs just over £25 quid and lasts for years, unless you drop it on the edge of the sink and dent the blades, as I did last week...
Have been doing so for maybe fifteen years. At a fiver a pop I figured DIY would save money quickly and liberate the time taken - it only takes 5 mins to DIY. |
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Post by Big Blue on Sept 18, 2017 11:04:25 GMT
About £30-£35 if I have it cut at some trendy place just off Smithfield (no jokes about butchering my hair, please....) or about £10-£15 if I have the local Russian babushkas do it closer to home.
As a point of reference, I was 17 in 1985 and had a blond set of highlights and fully layered cut. £35 (which is apparently £99.75 in today's money) and it remains the best haircut I've ever had. Which you'd hope, wouldn't you?
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Post by Alex on Sept 18, 2017 11:46:19 GMT
The local one in the village used to be £9.50 but have recently put up their prices to £10.50. Trouble is they don't take card, only cash. So where I used to get a tenner out of the ATM on my way there and receive 50p back afterwards, I now have the hassle of having to find a 50p or take at a £20 note and leave with pockets bulging full of change. Their standards have slipped a bit too so I might go elsewhere next time. I actually did go elsewhere last weekend but only because it was my sisters wedding and I'd forgotten to get a trim before so popped into a little place in Poole run by an elderly Italian gent named Gino, who only charged me £8 and did a great job.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 12:08:36 GMT
I have no sympathy with those of you who still have hair...
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Post by Blarno on Sept 18, 2017 12:22:18 GMT
I use a local barber who also happens to be a mate of mine. He works on an appointment only system for him and walk-ins for the other barber. If I use Mark, the main barber, I pay £9.50 and if I use Brad, the other barber, I pay £9.
Pretty much every other barber in town or nearby is the same price, but I stay loyal because I can have a good natter about music and general banter whilst I'm there. I go once a month around payday for a short back and sides, never anything fancy - the days of me doing stupid shit with my hair are well behind me.
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 18, 2017 12:22:53 GMT
I pay £11:00, they do a good job too, far better than any hairdressers that I used to frequent and pay a damn sight more for the privilege. Where is that ?? I recall that when we moved from Wiltshire to Surrey, the cost of gettying my hair cut doubled from £3 to £6 and that was over 20 years ago. I was paying £15.50 for a cut, wash and blow-dry until the place I was using went bankrupt in July. Current prices in Camberley are around £15 upwards, one place was £22 just for a dry cut (and I'm looking at nothing much more complicated that an old-fashioned short back & sides). I settled for £17.95 on Saturday; I'd gone out early to get my hair cut but it seemed that many males had also done the same thing and all the barbers had long queues. |
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Post by Nelson on Sept 18, 2017 12:41:56 GMT
the last time I visited a barber was a few days before my wedding day, some 8 years ago now. Nowadays I use a Wahl clipper which cost me £18 from Sainsburys, a corded one.
Does mean I have to plug it into the mains every time I want to skim my hair but it is much better and have (touch wood) proved much more reliable than even more expensive cordless models I have used in the past.
I only use a No.2 all over and get the Mrs to neaten off and shave my neck hair (which incidentally is a major bugbear for me, not to do, but I think seeing any man with untidy and overgrown neck hair is incredibly unsightly and smacks of not looking after ones hygiene and not being properly attired)
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Post by Tim on Sept 18, 2017 12:51:10 GMT
My hair is extremely straight and now thinning on top but I don't suit a buzz cut, +1
I pay £12 at the Turkish barber just round the corner from work - I can nip in at lunchtime and be out in 10 minutes. The price includes attention to ear and nose hair and eyebrow thinning (all done with a trimmer!).
Prior to that it was free courtesy of Mrs Tim but the chit chat was poor and it took about 45 minutes 
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Post by scouse on Sept 18, 2017 12:51:38 GMT
Clippered at home once a week. A pair of Wahl clippers costs just over £25 quid and lasts for years, unless you drop it on the edge of the sink and dent the blades, as I did last week...
Have been doing so for maybe fifteen years. At a fiver a pop I figured DIY would save money quickly and liberate the time taken - it only takes 5 mins to DIY. This, but once a fortnight for the cut. |
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Post by Big Blue on Sept 18, 2017 12:57:50 GMT
Have been doing so for maybe fifteen years. At a fiver a pop I figured DIY would save money quickly and liberate the time taken - it only takes 5 mins to DIY.
I had a similar train of thought as a teenager with the girls behind the bike sheds. It seems to have been going on longer than 15 years, though.... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 13:29:46 GMT
£10 in the village, in town I cannot remember the prices I saw but more than I pay now. My sister was with a guy long term and he used to pay £60 way back in the 90's for a 'trim' I suppose the price is always going to be right if the right job is done and you feel comfortable paying. He is an automotive design graduate though.
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Post by Roadrunner on Sept 18, 2017 13:36:09 GMT
I pay £11.95.
When I worked in Woodstock I used to go to Mr Noonan's barber shop which was like a step back in time, but I think it has long since closed.
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Post by humphreythepug on Sept 18, 2017 13:48:14 GMT
I pay £11:00, they do a good job too, far better than any hairdressers that I used to frequent and pay a damn sight more for the privilege. Where is that ?? Dylan's; Chertsey street in town. I'm not far off doing it myself though with a set of clippers. |
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Post by Ben on Sept 18, 2017 15:08:52 GMT
In local currency about $10-$12. That's really the upper limit for me. These days I go to a friend that a mate recommended, and as such sometimes I get discounts.
I tried the expensive stuff once or twice, but it seemed to make no difference to me. Hair is hair, right?
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Sept 18, 2017 15:13:38 GMT
When I was younger I used to go to the unisex hairdressers in Whitley Bay where the lovely Dion used to lean me back over the basin to wash my hair and at the same time rest her breasts on my face. You can't buy that level of customer service.
These days it's £8.50 at the barber's if it's a clippers job, or £10.50 if Steve looks sober enough to trust with scissors and we decide to get adventurous.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 15:22:05 GMT
The village next to mine had a whole generation who grew up in the seventies and eighties that must have assumed all barbers smelled of alcohol. Particularly in the morning.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Sept 18, 2017 16:31:28 GMT
My hair is extremely straight and now thinning on top but I don't suit a buzz cut, +1
I pay £12 at the Turkish barber just round the corner from work - I can nip in at lunchtime and be out in 10 minutes. The price includes attention to ear and nose hair and eyebrow thinning (all done with a trimmer!).
Prior to that it was free courtesy of Mrs Tim but the chit chat was poor and it took about 45 minutes
Mention Turkish barbers to my guy and it's like red rag to a bull. The local council paid for a load of Turkish asylum seekers to do a hairdressing course and set them up in a rent free unit in North Shields. Before long there was dozens of them charging a fiver a haircut putting three local barbers out of business. |
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Post by LandieMark on Sept 18, 2017 16:42:29 GMT
£7.90 at my local, not at all flashy, female barber. I tried DIY once and it looked awful. Good conversation and a bit of a laugh thrown in free of charge.
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Post by bryan on Sept 18, 2017 16:45:32 GMT
I am experimenting with different barbers, trying to find a good one for beards....now I have got it to a 4 week trim cycle.
Dave my old barber was £7, great at hair but beard wasn't fantastic.
Place in Worcester was £28 hair and beard, great cut but a long way from Derbyshire, and 5am start for a Saturday walk in....opened a branch in Birmingham and gone off the boil a bit, depends on who you get.
Tried a promising place in Derby, £17 for hair and beard trim, it is ok providing you get owner, rest of barbers do rubbish hair!
New experience last Saturday, went to sid sottang barbers school in Nottingham. He is ex 20yrs Vidal Sassoon, New Yorker with interesting life, beastie boys tunes and trains barbers for a large amount of money....
So I had a really sharp hair cut by Louis the ex paratrooper under Sid's watchful eye. He was a bit ham fisted, took nearly 2 hours practicing a fade but the cut was great.
It was free and a complimentary bottle of shampoo, go back often as you like.....
I think I will go back, bit nerve wracking being hacked at by a newbie but good banter and although shorter than normal for me I remind myself hair will grow back!
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 18, 2017 17:27:17 GMT
Once, when we were up visiting my wife's ancestral tiny medieval hilltop village perched up in the Apennine mountains (similar to those that got razed in the recent earthquakes, which were actually only about 60 miles south), she decided that I badly needed a haircut, so I got summarily packed off to some ancient old boy called (I think) Beppe in a decidedly retro barber shop who'd basically been cutting the whole village's hair since before my wife was born. I think I paid 8 euros or some such pittance and came out having had my hair cut actually pretty well but then spiked by Beppe into a frankly alarming quiff with liberal amounts of extra-strength gel. I got giggled at by everybody for the rest of the day and the family still occasionally chortles about it.
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Post by Andy C on Sept 18, 2017 18:19:23 GMT
Tara's sister is a hairdresser , so She does it. I've got to say she's mastered the mod cut to a tee
She refuses to take my money so I get her a voucher at Xmas time .
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 18:55:46 GMT
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Post by Stuntman on Sept 18, 2017 19:40:35 GMT
£9 for a dry cut from Sandie at Head Shed. She's no Dion though, sadly.
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