Hair Colour Prices

Jun 23, 2014

Venus W.

I've been wanting to get peekaboo highlights in my hair; however, I'm not sure what if considered expensive. When you ladies dye your hair, how much is it for both cut and dye? thanks!

Jun 23, 2014

Sylvia L.

Around $150 but I have a TON of hair.

Jun 23, 2014

Jenna M.

I spend $70 on mine but I've been going to the same lady for a long time.

Jun 23, 2014

Shona S.

When I go to the hairdressers it costs me like $200 but that's because I get my extensions retaped, and my hair cut and dyed.

Jun 23, 2014

Kelly V.

Venus, if your looking to get just a few peekaboo hilites, then expect to pay anywhere from $50 (for just a few foils) to over $100 (for a lot more foils). it just depends on what kind of look you want. you can always make an appointment for a consultation. it should be free and take about 10 to 20 minutes. the stylist sshould then be able to give you a price quote.

Jun 23, 2014

Alyx T.

It really depends on the salon, how much they charge per amount of hair and how much the individual chargers. A higher end salon charges a base fee for ingredients and basic cost and let's the hair dressers charge for time. A lower end salon will charge a base few and usually has their employees on an hourly wage instead of commission.
I paid 50$ for my peekaboo black hair and a cut, but I knew the stylist and she came to my house, I ended up paying for product cost and giving her 20$. Where as the girl I go to now to get my hair cut costs around 160$ to get a cut and peekaboos done, but she gets to alter the price a little.

To make more sense of it, I went and got a trim and my roots done last week. It cost me 100$ flat (minus tip). the base cost of getting roots done was around 15$ for products, a hair cut is about 15$ (for the wash and blowout) the salon charges the employees a 40$ flat fee on cuts and 30$ on bleaching and toning roots added onto the base fee. So the employee only makes around 5$ out of that. Because she's a good friend and she is really fond of me, and knows I'm quite broke she gave me a fantastic deal and I gave her a 50$ tip anyways.

But I hope this helps, because it'll really change between salons and employees. You really do usually get what you pay for when it comes to salons, especially if they are on commission.

Jun 23, 2014

Kelly V.

Alyx, where do you live? In all my years of hair I've never heard of this way of charging and what not. From my experience, you either get 40% to 50% (more in some cases) commission on your services that all have a set price. the only fee I've ever had to pay is a small percentage for chemicals (color/perms/relaxers). but I've never heard of a salon charging a stylist a $40 fee on a cut.

Jun 23, 2014

Alyx T.

Kelly I live in Canada. It's a very high end salon though. It's a salon where half the members have gone on tours with bands as stylists or have had very high up cliental. I just happen to know the girl and love her work and trust she won't mess up or not listen to me. She also always gives me amazing deals.
The cut also includes a shampoo, deep conditioning treatment and blow out/styling too. The 40$ is to pay for the staff at the counter, the cleanup staff, the wages of the waxing staff and the cost of the building itself.
The salon doesn't have any set prices shown publicly since each stylist makes their own prices. I like it much better this way than a flat fee of whatever for a hair cut. Or some salons go by how much hair you have (master cuts and a lot of chain stores do this) where a person with shoulder length or shorter hair gets charged 30$ and for every inch after that they get charged 5$ more. To me that's a dumb way to charge and a lot of places do that. But a lot of salons here do the mentioned above set prices for stylists and then the stylists can charge whatever above that, even lower end salons where they charge 20$ on a hair cut instead of 40$. The way my stylist explained is if a single mom takes her kid in on her birthday and can't afford to pay for the 200$ or whatever amount cut bleach and color (which is how I met her lol) than she can charge less, but when a woman who is clearly rich comes in with a 300$ prada purse on hand, designer name clothes and sunglasses than she can charge a bit more, to make up for helping out people.

Jun 23, 2014

Kelly V.

That's so crazy! I would think that people would come into the ssalon looking poor on purpose to get charged less. lol at least that's what I imagine in my head. the length thing is crazy too. I don't understand why they would charge $5 per inch. I wonder how well stylist do there? in terms of making money. I have a set price for each service (in the states) and I get 50% commission. so for a $60 haircut I receive $30. color I receive about 45% since there is a 5% product fee. the only thing that really varies in price is color, I use more product then I charge more. thanks for the insight though, its always interesting to learn how things are done in other parts of tthe country...or continent in this case.

Jun 23, 2014

Alyx T.

They don't usually tell people lol. It's just I know the stylist well so she's explained it to me and she said half her previous jobs do it this way too, but really only the higher end salons where they have more expensive products, more trained staff and higher up cliental than just children hair cuts from a basic not low end but not high end salon in a mall.
The length thing pisses me off so much, I have long hair and my trim at mastercuts was almost 100$ where as my moms hair cut (she has just below shoulder length hair, mine is like bottom rib level) cost like 60$. My hair only took 25 minutes or so to trim since I just wanted the split ends cut off, my moms took about 45 since she wanted a whole new look and she got charged less. It was so stupid.

Jun 24, 2014

Kelly V.

OK that's out of hand. Mastercuts here only charge like $15. they are about as low end as you can get here. sounds like hair in Canada is expensive!