The discrepancy between men's and women's haircut prices is such total bullsh**!!

Another problems I have at salons is how, even if I describe the look I want as "boyish," most hair cutters are reluctant to do my hair in a non-femmy.

Everything for women costs more and as far as clothing/shoes go, they're of cheaper quality, too.  I swear my running partner and I (a bloke) wear the same brand (Asics) but his last much longer before disintegrating.

If men had to put up with the inferior quality/higher prices, they'd riot.

I pay my stylist just enough to not make me weep every time I go.  A dime more, and I'm hacking it all off and going to a men's barber where I can get it cut for $10.

Yeah, okay, not really.  But sometimes I want to!

...I've never really thought about that...when I was younger my grandmother (who used to be a hairdresser) cut my hair and nowadays I go to a hairdresser called "Unisex".

They've got a lot of salons in Germany and - goes with the name - they charge the same price for men and women.

I pay about 60 Euro (about 70 US dollar) for a hair cut, style and as many colours as I want to have.

Only the hair cut would be 30 dollar.

I can ask my grandmother why there are different prices for men and women, but I guess it's really only due to the fact that women haircuts were more challenging and afforded more time, 'cause women simply had the longer hair in the past. And today it's simply a tradition.

And it's changing, I guess, otherwise there wouldn't be hairdresser like mine who charged according to the length - be it a man or a woman.

My sister is a hairdresser, I feel so lucky!

I hate going to the hairdresser!! It's crazy expensive, period. I think they've changed it now here in Sweden so now they (all hairdressers or just the ones I know about?) charge everyone after the length of their hair. But that didn't mean cheaper cuts for anyone, they just raised the prizes of the men's cuts too. I don't know how much I pay for a haircut but cut+(1)colour, the last time I went, was like 150 friggin' €! And I don't even go to the posh places. Drives me mad. How dare you? How very dare you?!

I pay around 50 to 100 dollars to get my hair done.  It also takes over 5 hours to get my hair done.  My hair is pretty thick.  BUT, most of that time is sitting and waiting to get in the chair.  She probably only spends 2 hours actually touching my hair.

I've talked to a stylist that charges hundreds of dollars.  I told her she was ludicrous.  She thinks she should get paid well for her work.  Her prices depended on what she had to do and how long it would take her to do it.

There are hundreds of stylists out there.  You can always find a deal.  You get what you pay for.

I think I've heard of women going to the local barber and getting the same prices as men.  Go to salons /barbers that have posted prices.

I think charging more for a "women's" hair cut than a "men's" is ridiculous. Hair dressers/barbers should charge according to hair length.

That said, my mom cuts my hair. If she's busy I go to an Asian hair salon; they're inexpensive ($25 tops, including washing, styling and tips) and they don't mess up the 'do I want. (I haven't had any good experiences with people who were used to cutting hair of Caucasians.)

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Haircuts are more expenisve for women because of the beauty expectations for women. So many of women's beauty products are more expensive then men's and we are expected to use more of them. It's all tied in with the history of sexism and gender expectations, but I will not bore you with my Women's Studies teacher babble.

The most frustrating part is that we need to pay more to be women (especially "feminine" women), yet we get paid less for the same jobs. ARG!

This should be included in the "equality law" between men and women the government passed few years ago here (france) !

I have shot hair since I'm 6. No color, no "brushing". Basic. The last time I went to a hairdresser "for women" (looong time ago), I was so disgusted that I swore he will never see me again...and that's what happened.

I resolved the problem with finding an "only men" hairdresser who has accepted me in his clients list after I told him that, no, I JUST want you to cut short, nothing else, thanks....So now, I pay the same price as men, which means 10 € ;-) For other women -like my mother- a simple cut+color+brushing is at least 4x more....

But the haircut for men was really cheaper before we had this f... euro.

I just cut off my hair (12 inches to donate and another 3-4 inches to make it really short) so I'll have to see if I can get away with going to the same salon. If not, then I'm on my way to the barber because there's no way I can keep up with it at those prices. Not to mention, my hair grows really fast and is very thick.

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i mean, a haircut alone cant be less than $30 from where i come from but honestly right now i wouldnt mind paying anything to have my hair done in a good way. i have curly hair and have been going to the same hair dresser for a few yeras now and my stylist always knew how to deal with it, but since it closed down ive been going through hell looking for someone who actually knows what they are doing with culry hair. i went from posh places that cost over $100 for a haircut to the cheapest, and they all suck!

now the only time my hair looks decent is when its straightened, or hiding under a bandana. ugh!

I don't buy the 'long hair' thing as a good enough excuse. If I went to a female oriented salon and had long straight hair and only wanted a trim - no layers, no fancy stuff, just a straight line chop along the bottom - it would still cost more than it would to give a guy a slightly layered short do. Which is harder?

When I was travelling I needed my hair cut, so I went to a barbers in Sydney and asked for a straight trim along the bottom to get the split ends out, and it cost about £3.75 (which i think is about USD8) because all I wanted was a couple of inches cut off the bottom. And that was right in the centre of Sydney. If I go into a women's hairdressers here, they give me this big speil about how it needs washing and conditioning (even if I've just washed it an hour ago) and it needs blow drying, moussing, shine stuffing etc, so I end up paying about £30.

It is completely sexist. Salons for both sexes should gear their prices based on the style rather than the gender of the customer.

I know I spend too much money on my hair but it's so hard to find a good stylist. 

Sometimes I want to just cut it all off... maybe that would be less expensive but I doubt it. Besides, that period of growth when you can't do anything with it is the worst.

something I just thought about.

Most hairdressers for women are other women.  Most hairdressers for men are other men.  Most unisex salons I've been to are ran by women.

Are we saying that women are being discriminatory towards other women?

My mother had short hair for a while and she went to a barber to get it cut.  She says it was much cheaper.

I've found that you really do get what you pay for when it comes to jobs that are trades so I only go to upscale salons now. Mine is a fairly small one (the owner still cuts hair) and I have the same girl for $37 with tip. Color is $60 but I can get a friend to do it for me out of the box.

Coloring your own hair is a great way to save a lot of money. There's no way I could do all the complicated things that my cut requires but I highly suggest finding a friend with some skills to do your color/highlights.

I really lucked out when I moved to Philly. There is this place on South St called Chop Shop - I don't know how they do it, but seems to be something like an independent cooperative of hairdressers. You come in and they'll assign you to whoever is available next. $10 a cut, no matter if you are a guy or a girl, short or long hair!

Though everyone I had a cut with is very competent, I hit the jackpot one day with someone in particular, so now I make an appointment ahead of time, which means they charge me $5 extra. Seriously, $15 for an awesome do... jackpot.

You Americans and your 'staggering' gas prices :D

I think the last time we in Holland paid what you pay for gas was a good twenty years back :P Still, haircuts are insanely expensive, in Holland as well.

I keep my hair long so it's okay for me but my girl's hair is short and needs to be cut at least once a month. Much to her chagrin, I might add. It's ridiculous, really, but here you can at least find those little salons  where you don't max out your bank account...

Who you gonna be if you can't be yourself,
you can't get it from t.v., you can't force it on
anybody else.-- Ani Difranco

as a student studying economics i'm gonna have to give you the economic answer (at the risk of sounding very very nerdy)..

this is classic demand and supply, which says that if demand goes up, prices go up. like you said, women tend to get their hair cut more frequently because they want to look good, so even if the prices go up, women will still go.

men however, don't like going to the hair salon, they (usually) don't really care about what their hair looks like and so the hair salons have to figure out a different way of attracting them, which is by offering them low prices.

if hair salons were to charge as much for men as for women, men would never go because they wouldn't think it was worth it, whereas women care so much that they are willing to pay.

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Who needs men when you've got IVF?

I worked as a hairstyist in a salon for 5 years, and the prices of haircuts in australia are all based on the time it takes to provide a service.  I'm not sure what it's like in salon's in other countries, but here men come in, get a 20-30minute haircut and are done.  Where as women usually come in, get a shampoo, cut, and then dry off/blowdry to finish off.  And for a salon to be viable here, the hairstylist must work to bring in atleast $1 a minute minimum (so atleast $60 an hour).  For example: mens haircuts take 25 minutes =  so $25 is the approx rate.  Women's hair often takes longer (45 minutes or so), and that's why it's more expensive.  Its wrong though, that even if they don't want the shampoo and dry off, it's usually still included in the flat rate price, as when the appointments booked, that amount of time is allocated to that client..

That's also why color is so expensive.. the color itself is fairly cheap, it's just all the time to apply, process, rinse, dry etc..

Did that make any sense?  

I think hairdressers should charge on time spent providing the service.. so shorter hair should cost less to do, whether it be for a man or woman.  Just like quick trims, or basic cuts should be cheaper too, as they are easy and quick.. I know alot of people dont like paying high prices for a haircut, but we were reminded by our teachers/bosses that what we do as stylists, is a creative form of expression, and we shouldn't undervalue it, as it cheapens the work that we do.. 

i used to have short hair, that my dad cut for me, lol.

but then i decided i wanted to grow my hair long. the last time i had long hair i was about 6 or 7, or so.

not really any need for a hairdresser when you're growing your hair, but when i did go for a trim, it was £13. sorry, but for a trim i could probably do myself, that's too much in my eyes.

at one point, when my hair got too long, i cut it myself, lmao!! did an alright job, too!!

the 2nd last time i went to the hair dressers, i didn't go to my regular one, and was charged £15. which was okay, but she didn't cut it the way i asked. it still looked okay, though, so i wasn't that bothered.

then my hair started to not sit the way it should. every time i washed it, it would stick out, meaning i had to then use a hair dryer, something i never do, and then use straighteners, something i do every now and again.

so it began to piss me off. so i headed back to my original salon, and she cut it, and charged me £24. omfg!! it wasn't that great of a cut and now i'm even more pissed off, cos it's still sticking out after i wash it, and even the hair dryer and straightners are struggling to make it stick back in.

i'm definitely not going back there, even though my mum and sister swear by her.

i want my hair back short, but i dunno what style. some of the styles i like, i'm not sure if i'd suit them, and i'm not sure the hairdresser can pull them off. so i'm kinda in limbo with it, atm.

i'd love to shave my head, but i think my family would disown me, lol!! but it might just come to that, but it would probably still cost me over the odds to get it done.

my dad gets his hair cut and it costs him £5. why the difference?? because it's assumed women care more about their appearance than men, and will pay for it.

hair dye on the shops cost up to £10 a go. the hair dresser charged my sister around £60 last time, and all she got was two colour highlights, not even a full head of hair!!
we recently bought dye ourselves, and she did her hair, and my hair, with highlights, and it cost £5.

i think i'm in the wrong job... and i could so do that job!!!

Hairstylists don't know what I want, even when I bring a photo and say "please, make me look androgynous."

And I leave with a 'do that looks suspiciously like Hilary Clinton's...   

I've pretty much given up. I'm cutting my own hair now, which is thankfully not that difficult to cut because it's so straight. 

"Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians." - Homer

Are people really, really, making statements like "men don't like going to the hairdressers/getting their hair styled?" Really?!

Bloody Nora in a hedgerow. This isn't the 1930s, chaps!

Talk about stereotypes! Jeesh!