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... stumbles back to the car where I'm waiting, happily reading a magazine. She's just been to the hairdressers.

"How do I look?" she says, worriedly

"Well," says the Ostrich, "you know that Specsavers advert with the old Scottish crofter and the sheepdog ...."

"Just take me home ....."

Mrs O needed as strong mugga tea and a warm relaxing bath and hairwash to restore normality ......

Seriously though, it's a dry trim. It's £24.50 Surely the salon are honour-bound not to send their customers out looking like scarecrows. Or is it, as Mrs O suspects, the latest fashion?

How much??? I paid a tenner for a dry cut yesterday!

Oh, and for that my hairdresser styles it afterwards....if she's sprayed it with water at all then she gives it a blast with the hairdryer and she always puts some styling product on. It always looks as good as it would if I'd had the full works.

Jo, that's salon prices in our neck of Sutton Coldfield. The salon more or less next door to the one Mrs O went to charges £19 (I was sent in to ask). Mrs O was going to a lady who operated out of one of the rooms in my barbers, and I think she was charging £12, but unfortunately she fell rather seriously ill before Christmas and has packed up.

And the strange thing is there are loads of salons in this area, all defying competition and charging eye-watering prices .....

My own barbers have hiked their prices steadily during the course of last year, and a No.2 buzzcut on the sides and trim on the top is now £9 .... a lot of independent barbers in this area have been bought out by something called "Kings Barbers Club" which seems to be a sort of chain. I have no idea what they charge, their whizzy website doesn't say .... but I'll bet it's more than £9!

JoM wrote:Oh, and for that my hairdresser styles it afterwards....if she's sprayed it with water at all then she gives it a blast with the hairdryer and she always puts some styling product on. It always looks as good as it would if I'd had the full works.

Mine cost 9.00 like jo s
Allways have a dry cut

I paid £13.50 for a dry cut last weekend. That has sneaked up from £10 over the last couple of years.

Wait until you come to London!!!! you'll be charged anywhere from between £30 - £100 for a wash, cut and blow dry. Depends on who is doing your hair; a regular stylist, senior stylist, their award winning stylist.. you name it they'll charge extra for it.

Even out in the 'burbs' where I live you don't get away with less than £15 for a dry cut or usually £25/£30 for a wash & tidy

your poor wife Ossie; it's horrid coming out of a hairdresser not happy with what has been done when you should be feeling a million dollars. She has my sympathies

One of my ex SIL has been a mobile hairdresser for decades. She is around the £12 for a cut and dry and does a family pass for £25. I have never known her to be short of work so she must be doing something right.

Poor Mrs. O, the only thing that can be done with a bad hairdo is to let it grow out. Be prepared for a few 'bad hair days' Ossie.

Tia it would be cheaper for you to have a nice day in the sticks
To get your hair done
It's terrible prices down your way
Can't get a mobile hairdressers here used to in lincoln