childrens hair cuts - what do you pay?

Okay, I'm a bit tight with money and hate paying more than I have too.

I usually take my kids to one of the mums in my mothers group who is a hairdresser. She has charged me $5 each in the past and it takes her about 1/2 hour.

Well she just doubled her price, now to $10 each. Still took the same time and it's cash in hand for her. My local hairdresser costs the same and I can go at a time that suits me rather than fitting in with my friend.

Writing this seems a little petty......I know......I suppose I should be supporting my friend, but I think I was just so surprised that she sprung the price rise on me without warning.

What do you pay, and who do you go to? Local, out of area, out of home or other?

Wow wheres your friend.. if i go to even the 'cheap' places here it costs me $15 for DD1's hair, it honestly took the lady less than 5min last time and i didn't even get a smile. :wall:

I think $10 is a great price even if it is from a friend, i guess a price rise isn't general conversation so she may not have thought to forewarn you.

I agree with ZF!! If I only had to pay $10 per child, they'd get haircuts more regularly!! We go to just cuts and I think we paid $15 each child last time. Mind you DS's hair is not easy to cut, he screams like someones cutting his ears off!

I pay $15 at the local salon express for DS. My own hairdresser will do his hair for $10 but I prefer not to take him with me nowadays. He gets bored and the hairdresser is me time :)

I pay $10 at my hairdresser. She takes far less than 1/2 an hour, she has a racing car chair and lots of toys for the boys and they get a lollypop at the end. If it was much more than that I would probably go back to doing it myself. lol.
If I had a hairdresser friend then I would probably try to go to them, but not if it was far less convenient. Do whichever is easiest for you.

Eluned, I would never take DS with me to the hairdresser. We make a special trip for his haircut. I really need a haircut though, so might call and book myself in right now. :)

We used to pay $7.50 last year but it's been bumped up to $10.50 now.
DH usually does DS' hair with his clippers until we had a mishap and DH took a chunk of hair out of the back of DS head :rofl:
All I heard him say was "Oh no, Mum is going to kill me!" :rofl:

Thanks heaps for all the responses so far.

So $10 is pretty good then!!!
I suppose I have to decide whether to do the hairdresser thing at a time convenient to me or stay with my friend and when she is available. Hope she's not offended if I don't ask her again.

DD's haircuts usually cost about $12

I usually always get the kids done with mine and it's $75 for the 5 of us and I get a wash and blowdry as well, but I have been going to the same place for years so I think they give me a bit of a discount. But I did have to take the boys to the barber for theirs the other day and it was $10 for DS2 and $17 for DS1 - both had short back and sides done. $10 is pretty good and still way less than what you'd get charged in a salon if she is having a proper cut and not just a trim

i just paid $38.50 today to get both kids hair cut, xavi's is great, but miff's is pretty plain. i usually wouldn't pay that much but wanted it done today and couldn't get in to the regular place. so yep, $10 is great for a haircut, i think our usual is about 15

For a fringe at my hairdressers it costs about $8 and for a full cut it is about $12. I wasn't too happy with her fringe last time but at Child Care they have a hairdresser come in who specialises in childrens cuts and it costs $5 fringe, $13 full cut and she did a perfect job. I was very happy. She has the DVD set up and everything where my hairdresser just has a kids cape.

Wow I wished I paid $10. Cost me $16 to get ds's done and half the time they do a crappy job.

Yep, $15 here and I have tried three different salons and all $15.

our local hairdresser/salon charges by age.
DS is 4 and costs $8