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How much should a hair cut cost?

I think when people talk about where they go for a haircut and how much it is, it's mainly 3 different kind of places.

There's the old fashioned barber shop where there isn't much training required for that kind of a license. You get a dry haircut with clippers and your hair is short with one of 3 or 4 "styles".

There's "Super-cuts" are something similar. It's cheap, you get a similar cut, probably by an attractive female. Your haircut looks like it was done at Super-cuts generally.

The third place is a hair cutting "salon" that probably has stylists who can do men's or women's hair. They have more training to get that kind of license. Your hair will be washed first, cut with scissors mainly and if you don't have real short hair, it will probably look much better as you come out of such a place. You'll pay more to get your hair cut here.

The third option is where I went for years. I thought if you were to cut your hair yourself that you would have to have the kind of hair style that you would get at an option 1 traditional barbershop since cutting your hair yourself with scissors isn't something that most people can do successfully.

I found that not to be the case however. You can have longer hair or at least not buzz cut type styles and still cut it yourself with electric clippers and it will look the same as it would coming from a "salon".

Regarding cutting nose hair, ear hair, bushy eyebrows, you can easily do all that yourself as well. My electric clipper set has a "guard" for eyebrows. It doesn't cut too close. You can't mess things up. You just put in on and go over your eyebrows. For nose and ear hair you can get a battery powered cutter made just for that. It's foolproof as well.

As it turns out, cutting your own hair is easy. You only have to learn one style and you can cut it before it gets too long so it's always an easy and quick job.

Shaving is harder than cutting your own hair.
 
Long story short my barbershop closed and the barber I used went private. I give him $20 per cut for me and for my two sons at the shop he uses now (private appointment only). He's satisfied. That shop charges $13 for men and $9 for boys. The old shop he used to work at (and I patronized until it closed) was $12 for men and $8 for boys.

This is in SE PA a suburb of Philadelphia.

Chris
 
There are only 2 barber shops in the town I go to. The older gentleman barber charges $15 for a buzz cut which includes shaving your neck and around the ears with a straight razor, and hair tonic. The younger fellow down the street charges $10 for a buzz cut. No neck shave or hair tonic. I like them both.
 
When my barber passsd away, I bought a cape, neck papers, and a kit from wahl on amazon, with combs, scissors, electric clippers and guards in a zippered pouch. Had an old shave brush for a neck duster, and had clubman tonic, aftershave and talc on hand. Wife has been doing it since haircuts at his shop were $5. I’ve never oiled or done maintenance to the clippers and they still work perfectly. I’m guessing over a decade. I think I paid $50 for all the stuff.
 

ajkel64

Check Out Chick
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Why is that?
I think because they don't give themselves time to establish a client base and that a lot of the older men who would use a barber get used to going out of town and using the barbers when they go to medical specialist appointments.
 
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I live in a small university town in Illinois. I pay $25 for a haircut (weekly) and get trimmed up with a straight razor (no Clubman, though).
 
Soulard Barber shop in St Louis charges $7.50 last time I checked. I gave the name so you can google it if you find it hard to believe. It is a old Russian guy who will tell you "no charge, get out" if you don't like your cut.
 
$35! Geez, maybe I should become a hair-butcher, er, I mean barber! :001_cool:
Ive been looking into going to school to be a barber lately and it seems like the vast majority of them dont make a killing at it. It seems like $20K a year is the norm when you start out and once you get a clientel, you can expect $30K a year. Some make more, depending upon the market but most dont get rich doing it, unless they have their own shop.
 

Toothpick

Needs milk and a bidet!
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$20 including tip was what I always paid. I think it was $14 and I just gave a 20. Or it was 16 and I just gave a 20
 
SGD28 + SGD2 tip for a No2 all over, wash what's left and dry. 15 mins from the first sitting down to leaving, that's not a bad hourly rate(!)
 

FarmerTan

"Self appointed king of Arkoland"
What bothers me is that no one is taught the art of cutting hair. When I learned there was no numbered attachments to put on clippers.

I literally just finished cutting my own hair. I should put 20 bucks in my IRA, lol.
 
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