Hair salons and sexism

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Yes, they've raised them to the equivalent of £40 or £50. Which is a ridiculous amount for men or women to pay for a hairdo. I've been to a hairdresser once this millenium. I'm so hot.

I wish more women would just chop it off. s**t, about half of my head is shaved because I have a short undercut. I just use cheap products aimed toward male consumers.

I think you're great!

wow You're so lucky!! !
I'm thinking about "hair modeling" since I drop about $60 per visit

It's unfair that it costs more if it's just a cut but it's a fact. It probably costs more because we will pay that. We care more about our hair than men in many cases.

Also, most women don't have the option of just buying clippers and keeping it short at home. For men it's about grooming more often than it is about style. I used to cut my husbands hair and still do when he gets a cut. I used to buzz my boys hair till they got older and hated that. Now, a friend who cuts hair does ours. I have no training whatsoever, but even I can cut a regular boys layered type haircut. It's not so easy for a girls hair. That's why.

There are girls who cut their own hair and it looks great. It's not that common though. It's very hard to do.

It's skill level, not sexism.

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The only reason not many people cut their own hair is because the myth that it's difficult still persists.

It is in the interests of the hairdressing industry to encourage that myth not to die out. If everybody knew that they could easily cut their own hair at home (rather than paying huge amounts of money to a perfect stranger who completely ignores your instructions and goes ahead and butchers your hair however they feel like it) hair stylists would go out of business.

I trim my own hair. It's very easy. You just get the scissors and snip.

Everybody knows how to use scissors. I mean, if you need to cut a sheet of paper, you don't start to panic and say: "I can't do this. I need to go and find an expert who knows how to cut paper, and pay them to do it for me instead." Do you?

So why is that, when faced with the need to cut our hair, we panic and run off and pay somebody huge amounts of money to do it for us instead?

Contradiction, much?

So, it's a fact that it costs more. End of? Sexist price, but it's a FACT. So get used to the idea. Wow, why didn't *I* think of such a black and white solution? It would make everything so much simpler, wouldn't it?

I can't believe my own sex sometimes!

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Yesterday evening I ran into a neighbor and her daughter who I hadn't seen for a year or more. It turns out the daughter now works at a hair place in a city about 100 miles from home.

She said that she cuts hair for men more often than for women. I said something about maybe going there some time for a haircut. When I mentioned that I have been cutting my own hair for more than ten years, she laughed and said "I can tell".

I don't get mine cut, just trimmed and not even once a year. I find it unfair that I have to pay as much as it costs to get a cut just to get a quick trim. It's simple and easy and only takes a few minutes. It's not like there are layers, it's just a tiny bit off the bottom.

How much do men usually spend on one haircut and how often do they get it?
I get my hair done every 6 months and spend about $120.
So it's the same as a man spending $20 a month for a haircut.