What is a reasonable price for a haircut?
 

I have gone to the same barber for the last 18 years....He finally retired at age 85 so I had to go looking for a new Barber.

I'm used to paying around 20 bucks including tip.

Down the street is a Chinese guy (from china) cutting hair for 5.99...

How good of a hair cut can that be?

I asked a friend of mine who cut his hair....his "stylist" charges him about 40 dollars..with shampoo....Not really a better haircut than mine and I wash my hair every day.

I really don't have that much time to go around hunting out the best deal.....Should price be my guide?

What then is a reasonable price for a haircut?

I pay 18 plus 2 tip. Every year for the past 4 years, the price has gone up 2 dollars. I've had the same guy cut my hair for teh past 15 years. I don't know anything else.

Place I go, hair cut is $13 + $2 tip. You get a free soda (glass bottle coke or O'Doul's) and they only serve men, "Hair Saloon For Men."
http://www.hairsaloon.com

No location close by but that is a pretty neat website for barbershop

free from mom :)

when i used to see the barber.. $6.00 plus $1 tip.

now that i have long hair, I go to a salon... $24 plus tip of $3.00 but I go like once a year maybe 2 times.

$5.00 plus $1 or 2 for tip, a really good haircut. But it is back home, I will go back in june, he usually charges me 4.

Since I've been here, I have only cut my hair twice in supercut ($15 each time, and I had long hair in that time)

I saved more money buying a clipper and getting a haircut myself, since I wanted a short trim all over my head, no style :)

Near where I live the price usually range from 10-15 dollars. Any more than that will be either from stylist or a total rip off.

I'd like to say that you get what you pay for but in this case it isnt always true.If you arent a supermodel,Fifteen bucks max,and she outta wash it for you too..

$20

Wow, $18US for a haircut? I used to get mine done for $15NZ ($7.50US), and she washed it afterwards too O_o

about $15, shampoo, gel and drink included.

Used to pay 18 including tip, now its 15 including tip.

Funny you ask, I've been shaving my head for about 3 years. I have no idea either. But I do think gillete is making a fortune off me.

I don't know. I've been to a hair salon two times in 22 years.

Now my SO cuts my hair and I cut his.

But I think the average price is $10-25

i pay around 8 dollars cdn then 2 dollars tip, about 6.50 usd i think?

my hair is easy to cut so no matter where i go i dont really ever get a bad hair cut, so price usually predicts where i go!

Greatclips. $11 plus $2 tip.

Supercuts: 8 bucks plus an appreciated tip. Tipping is not a city in China

There is no way I could find a $5 haircut around here. I can't even get 2 gallons of gas for a fiver. $13 plus tip is the lowest.

Just got a haircut yesterday, 11 dollars and a 2 dollar tip.

The haircut is pretty good. Women aren't going to be throwing themselves at my feet, but I have a better chance of aceing my job interview.

Amen brother!! I feel your pain. Those Mach III Turbo blades get expensive when they only last 2 days.

I go to a hairdressing school and pay 6 bucks if I've let my hair grow out and need a trim. Otherwise I turn to my trusty $14 clippers and do the job myself.

I pay Zero now. GF and I bought a kit for 12 bucks.

Oh my lord, and I'm paying $45 + $5 tip to go to a freaky salon on Haight St. Good haircuts though.

I think I'm a closet metrosexual :)

Depends on how much time I have...

I have naturally curly hair that's just past my shoulders, it is a challenge to cut, plus it's got a lot of gray so I have it colored about every 8 weeks.

For a cut, if I have the time, I'll go to either Warren Tricomi or one of the posh posh super expensive salons in New York City -- and spend 25 bucks plus tip a the the training schools. I'll spend about 3 hours in the chair, and have a student it's almost ready to be turned out work on my hair - monitored very closely by one of the salon pros - the salon pro will then finish my hair. (I basically end up getting a 350 dollar or more cut and color for about 40 bucks - -because the cut is so good, I don't have to go as often)

When I'm desperate and don't have time to wait, I pay about 35 for the hair cut (plus tip) plus about 40 for the color. I'm paying more money for it, and it's no where near as good a cut.

I'm balding. So anything less than $5. Mainly it's free since my SO does it for me. Someday I will shave my own head. Something about a razor to the scalp scares me. Especially when I'm holding the razor.

Hair cuttery, $13 + $2 tip. Shampoo+Cut.

I would probably pay up to $20 if I really, really liked a place and they cut my hair awesomely. They do a decent job at the hair cuttery though.

back in the mid 90's when I kept hair on my head, my upper limit I was (and still am) prepared to pay a barber for a haircut was $5-8. Anything past that for male haircuts (short hair) is too much in my opinion.
The first few times there were some cuts on my head, but now they never happen and those are at worst tiny nicks. Does not take too long to get to the point where you can shave the entire scalp without a mirror and not a miss a single spot by feel alone; I still check visually though.

i pay 9 bucks + 3 bucks tip for haircut, shampoo and a quick shave of any facial hair

I pay 4.99$ for mine with a coupon.

The original price is 8.99$ though, I think.

My haircut consists of dragging a 1 length clipper over my head a few times. I could easily do it myself, but I never get it right with the same amount of effort than $13 + $2 tip will get me at Supercuts.

I am very cheap and only get my hair cut like once a year. But when I do go and get it cut I go to the Beauty College and they do it for 5 dollars.

Wow I pay a lot for my hair... I get it done about every 9 months or so... I pay around $130. But I am really really fickle with the people who touch my hair with scissors. I don't mind paying a lot of money if they do it right.
I get highlights and style with wash and dry. It is pricey, but it is also in a very picey town.

I shave my own damn head, cost me a $20 razor from walmart and that's that.

before when i had hair i went to a chinese stylist and only paid 6 bucks, 8 with tip. honestly, it was the best haircut i've ever had...

I think I pay about the standard...$13 and $2-5 for tip, depending on if I really like the job they do.

The place I go to is owned and operated by young (20ish) men, so they do my hair in the style I like.

I cut my own hair...have for several years. *shrug*

20$ canadian. Once I went to supercuts, but hated the haircut.
Now i've got a great stylist, she cuts really well.

I just realized I'm tipping too much. I wished I would have run into this thread years ago.

$12 + $4-6 tip ... I keep my hair clipped nice and tight, nothing terribly complicated.

$3.00 and $2 tip at the barber collage just two blocks away---
I can run up there in my golf cart...never get a bad cut because the "BIG BOSS" always checks it before you leave....saves a few bucks for good scotch...:D

I pay 17, but I have had the same lady do it since I was 10. I figure paying a little more is worth it since the cheap places never do it right to begin with.

I cut my own, but when I feel like it, I pay around 10-12USD plus tip.

$7-15. And the tip depends on how good the do, but also how much they cost. If, at $15, they dont cut my hair any better or treat me any better than the $7 place, i figure the tip is included in the price. But at $7, the cut is cheap enough that i can give a small tip if it sucks, and a decent bit if i like it.

I've got REALLY long hair that I never really bothered to get much done to in the past, so I was in the habit of paying around 10 bucks for a "trim" (basically just edging out the back of my neck and sometimes trimming split ends or shaving the sides when I had an undercut).

However, lately, I've started going to one of the pricier salons (which in West Virginia is still cheaper than a city) to get something with a little more style (but still very long) and I pay about 80 bucks for cut, color, highlights and tip. I think it's a good deal, since I come out very happy with what they've done (which is rare for me, I'm usually way too picky about my hair).

If I lived in a bigger city, or actually required something more than just coloring and a careful trim on the ends, I'd expect to pay 100-150, but it wouldn't be very often, since I hate having scissors around my head.

Am I the only person who doesnt tip???

I didnt know that was part of the deal. Just go to a walmart. Its 13 bucks

Walmart!?

My last one was a ripper but I can't fathom the whole "tip" thing cause we don't do that shit down here.
It cost me $25 and that is something I'm not used too.

But I will be back.

Most certainly

It all depends on where you go.
Usually, you get what you pay for. I've only gotten a haircut once at a cheap place, and I didn't care for it to much. $7 and no hairdrying.
Then I've gone to a more expensive place (middle-priced) well-known salon and it costs about $16 and they are decent. They dry and even usualy style your hair for no extra charge.
Then I just went to a high-end salon for the first time, I also got my hair coloured, but both cost $101 total. I received a $10 discount on the haircut, because of the colour, so that tells me the cut was expensive alone. But I really really like the cut & colour. So, it all depends on where you go and how much you pay and how you want your hair to look.
Of course, it's usually not a big issue for guys.

The best cut I've had in the last couple of years was £5 + tip and that was in London where everything costs twice as much as everywhere else.

My last cut cost £8 and was the most expensive I could find in my neighbourhood. I chose the most expensive because nobody in this country seems to be able to cut hair any more and I hoped that the few who could might be working at marginally higher salaried jobs at slightly more expensive places.

Boy was I wrong.

Actually the only half decent haircuts I've had in the last 5 years were from a guy I know who trained as a hairdresser back in the day when you had to complete a proper apprenticeship.

So no, don't pay, find out from your friends who they reccomend. Failing that, find someone with a cool haircut and ask them who did it.

I pay $14 for one. Its a guy in a local shop that I have gone to since I was a little kid. There are other, cheaper places, but I know and trust the guy, and Ive been going there for almost 20 years now. I dont mind paying a little more for that.

I tried Supercuts twice - both times it cost me even more to get it done right.

I was paying $22 for awhile, but the stylist got pregnant and took some time off. In the meantime, I found a place closer to home for $12 - that includes wash/dry. The bonus is - she likes to cut really clean hair, so I get a 5 minute scalp massage thrown in to the deal - which is worth the $12 on its own.
I always add a $5 tip.

i'd say anywhere from 10 - 20 dollars is reasonable.. i usually pay about 10

$15 here.

free from my buddy, or 16 incl. tip at the local father & son barbershop, can of ice cold budweiser included hehhe.

Dear god. I suppose if you really feel it's worth it...

I pay as little as possible for mine, I don't see the point in paying more than £5 for a number four all over.

As our pal Rocky would say, the difference between a bad cut and a good cut is usually 4 or five days.

He's very hairy though!

I pay $10. It used to be $8 just a couple of years ago. Damn economy.

9 dollars plus a 1 dollar tip = a 10 dollar bill, and i have a new haircut. :)

i pay $15 New Zealand so thats around $9.50 US

$7.50 at the Base BX, and they usually do a damm good job to...

not to mention they do so many in a day it takes less than 5 minutes... :D

I pay 12 bucks plus tip at Fantastic Sams.

I go to a hair salon and pay 18+Tip, which is usually 5 bucks. The girl that cuts it is really cool, and I'm one of the very few guys who goes there so she likes to play around with my hair. I just tell her to cut however someone she would date would have it, and it always comes out lookin sharp.

I dunno. Ms juju is a licensed cutter, so I get mine for free. I suppose I do have to pay with the house payment and grocery money....hmmm....