Hairdressers: Is the pricing sexist?

There's nothing stopping women from going into barbers for the same price. Going to head into one meself during the week, just hope they don't lash the old pudding bowl on me noggin.

I wonder how much price differences have to do with frequency? Most guys I know get their hair cut every 2-3 weeks. But most women I know go every 6-8 weeks (for both men and women, this will vary by length). So over the same time period, men and women actually end up paying about the same amount of money.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Facts are that business (such Toni & Guy, Peter Mark etc) advertise different prices based on sex and sex alone.

That both sexes can get their hair cut cheaper in barbers is of no consequence.

Never noticed there are gendered prices in salons. Maybe it is on the assumption that women are more likely to get theirs blown, styled and producted.

I might pop into Peter Marks then on the way to the barbers next week and ask what the difference is with the two. I'll ask can I get the cheaper one anyway and see what the craic is. If they say no, I will post on this thread while I am drooling on my phone in the barbers. I doubt they would though...

well in the salon i work in, we wouldn't charge a short haired woman as much as a long haired woman, but well, we ARE ****ing awesome

i'll cut your hair for free pete

you can get a very cheap dry cut in dublin city. but omg... its risky. i did it once - 20 euro it was (2 yrs ago) it was such a mess and the fringe so uneven i took a scissors to it myself and went to a salon a few weeks later.
that being said i went to a hi end saalon several years ago thinking maybe ill get a really cool cut as im paying 80 (at the time a regular cut in peter mark for example - was 35) that turned out to be another cut i had to get dad to fix. youd need an armyload of product to keep it tamed.

most salons - at least highstreet ones - seem pretty unshakable on their prices though so you cant haggle based on having shorter hair etc. some of them even charge more for blow dry but wont let you leave the salon with wet hair. so you have to pay it. the pricing salons can have needs more regulating,

ElaElaElano wrote: »

Also, as an aside, is there any actual difference between getting cut at a hairdressers and a barbers'? Remember years ago David Beckscum paid something like a grand for someone to do his blade 2 all over.

In a barber's you talk with men about manly things and it's a good time for men.

In Peter Mark's you stare at the sexy women while a woman fondles you.

Personally, I'm making an appointment for Peter Mark's.