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| Yes - I look a twit and I do have hair dye on my face but I put my glasses back on, checked in the mirror and I washed it off! |
Hello Dear Reader,
Not being an average woman, I’ve no idea what the average woman spends at the hair dressers. The last time I went to the hair dressers, a trim and semi-permanent colour cost £75. I never went back. I’m always on the hunt now for reasonable hair colourant as some are getting to costing almost £10, which is the total amount I allow allocate to spend on myself per month! I can spend money on sewing machines and second hand fabric to make presents and household items, but I see no need to waste money on my physical self.
So, I colour my own hair and I don’t have it cut more than once every two years.
The colour in the picture looks almost black whereas it’s a dark brown iced chocolate. Not telling the make as I don’t do adverts. I stock up when the shops are doing a two for one, or three for two and keep them and then colour my hair every month.
Now I’ve fought the good fight against the every shade of grey, I’ll see you tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxx
I spend 18 bucks, three times a year. I color myself with a demi-permanent. My stylist never gives me a hard time because my low-maintenance approach has left me with very healthy hair. My friends who style/cut/color constantly (and spend $$$) have hair that isn't super healthy and are often having to also by treatments. Hair spending is not a big prioirty in our house!
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I dye my hair every 4-5 weeks. I buy the dye in Germany (I live in the Netherlands close to the border). In Germany it is less then half (GBP 5.10) of the price I would have to pay over here (about GBP 11). I visit the hairdresser every 5-6 weeks and pay about GBP 11,40. I wash my hair at home and dry it afterwards.
Bye,
Marianne.
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I'm with you all the way with this one, I usually visit the hairdresses once every couple of months for a dry trim at a cost of £8 but this last time she was a bit scissor happy and cut it a bit short. Maybe it will last a good 3 months before I need to go again. I colour mine myself for very little cost and it scores a “Perfect 10” everytime 😉
Your hair looks wonderful, so glossy and healthy and a lovely warm colour.
Take Care.
Karen x
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Keep your eye out for special offers on the Avon hair colours - they really are without question the best I've used, come up true to colour, and best of all are the only ones I've ever used that don't stain your skin & scalp. They occasionally drop as low priced as £3.50 each, but can routinely be picked up at 2 for £8 or thereabouts.
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Wish I had straight hair that is so much easier to take care of DIY style.
Spare a thought for those with very temperamental, somewhere-down-the-line mixed race hair which needs the care of an expert.
Luckily I have halved the usual costs as my hairdresser went self employed and now works from home so that's a step in the right direction anyway.
The really frugal thing to do would be to shave it all off but I'm not quite ready for that.
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I don't bother with the hairdresser much really - maybe just a couple of times a year for a trim. I'm lucky that I don't have any greys yet and so I don't need to bother with colour. My daughter cuts and colours her own hair really well, and she has a great tip to avoid getting the dye on your skin. She smears vaseline right around the hairline and edges of ears etc before applying the colour, which means she never gets stains on her skin.
Jane
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Darent tell you how much I spend - I try to make it last as long as possible - not easy though with a very dodgy calflick and an increasing amount of grey!!! I am such a wuss at daring to do it myself - when I was at school and the little sachets of toners and shaders were cool you had to leave them on for 15 mins - I think mine lasted 8 - 10 I was that scared it went wrong!!
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You have the most beautiful hair, really glossy and healthy. At one time I would have been really jealous of you as I suffer from alopecia. I have come to terms now with wearing a wig. I slap it on in a morning and think, no washing, styling, colouring yipee!! The only thing I do miss is eyebrows and eyelashes as my hair loss is now total.
Kathy x
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Your hair is sooooo beautiful and so are you! I spend NOTHING at the hairdressers, cut my own hair and make a £5 Boots own brand dye last three months!
I buy one Lush Karma Komba shampoo bar a year (£5.25) and Jungle conditioner twice yearly (2 x £2.95=£5.90). xxx
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I go to the hairdressers 3 times a year to get my hair cut. Do not dye it, I have brown hair which is just going grey at the front like my mothers did, the back of her hair stayed the same colour, so I am hoping mine does the same.
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Being a man I don't colour my hair, at 61 I've still got it all, it's starting to look a bit grey though.
Local barber, quaint old shop, don't think it's altered since the 60s, appears to be original everything, he should have retired years ago, only does 2 cuts, short back & sides for the middle-aged, total all-over skinhead for the younger ones. Always busy, only got 1 speed, never slows down or speeds up, chatters incessantly, takes about 2 minutes to do a cut, charges £4.
I vist him about every 10 weeks, when Mrs notices I'm looking a bit unkempt.
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I use Boots own brand which was recently 2 for £6 so I stocked up using a giftcard I had been given. I haven't had a trim in quite a while, but my hair is not as long as yours is yet. What kind of conditioner do you use to keep it in good condition, or do you use the excellent stuff that comes with the dye sparingly over the month? I don't dye mine anywhere near as often, probably once in six months, so I run out of that, and have to look for something else. I haven't found anything I really like yet.
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I have blonde hair which is not so easy to colour at home and a growing amount of grey. Luckily I found a fabulous hairdressers when I moved 'north' and she charges £14 for a wash, cut and blowdry (which I have about every 8 weeks) and for a wash, cut, blowdry and highlights she charges £30 and I highlight my hair every 3 cuts, roughly. My hairdressers is in a 'not so good' area of the town I live in and she doesn't pay for posh fixtures and fittings but she is a brilliant hairdresser. My sister who lives 'back home' in Nottingham pays a city centre hairdresser more than £70 for cut and dye!!!
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I go to the local FE college twice a year and pay £8 to a second year hairdressing student for a basic cut. It looks fine as the supervisor keeps a close eye on things, the only issue is that it takes quite a while. I don't colour my hair as I don't mind the grey!
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I use the shampoo and conditioner from aldi - under £1 for each
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I am in my mid forties and have a lot of gray. I color it myself and pay under $4 USD. I color every month.
I have very long hair too. It is unusual, at least here in the US, to see long hair on women my age.
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Hi - I'm 48 next birthday and it's not usual for women of my age to have long hair here. Princess Anne, Jane Seymour and plenty more
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Your hair is beautiful. And down to your waist!
When my hair was long I let my husband trim it. He just had to cut straight. I have always cut the kids hair when they were growing up and also my husband's. I still cut his. I hate to say this, but now that it is shorter, I whack at it myself. I couldn't care less about my gray. I have never been able to do much with it because it is thin and doesn't hold a shape even with a very expensive cut.
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I bagged pound land hair dye. Can't get much cheaper. Just as good as the more expensive brands. I bought in bulk and keep looking out for it. Shampoo is 30p and conditioner the same.
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I bagged pound land hair dye. Can't get much cheaper. Just as good as the more expensive brands. I bought in bulk and keep looking out for it. Shampoo is 30p and conditioner the same.
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I will have my hair cut once or twice a year I gave up on coloring and decided to go neutral. If I go grey, then so be it. I really don't care. age is not something that I am ashamed of. I have earned my grey hairs and my wrinkles and I will wear them with pride.
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You have such healthy, glossy looking hair. My daughter has been cutting my hair for the past two years (we've recently bought a gadget which makes cutting it much quicker and easier). I have shoulder length, dark blonde, layered hair. I find Lidl's shampoos and conditioners excellent. I colour my own hair (starting to get a lot of whites/greys now I'm approaching 48), but I use Avon, good make, and only mix what I need, and apply just to roots where the hair is white/grey, not all over the head, so a bottle can last from 6 - 8 months as I colour approximately every 6-8 weeks.
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I didn't color my hair for 18 months because I was going “au naturele” so I saved that expense. I did get it cut every 6 weeks at a cost of $20 (US). Then about 3 months ago I “messed up” my gorgeous silver (won't tell you what I did) and had to have a colorist intervention, which cost $100!!!! Everything I had accomplished in 18 long months has been undone and I'm back to coloring it myself. I have short hair so I can get 2 coloring's out of one box of dye. I do get regular cuttings at a cost of $30 (tip included). That's a lot of money and I'm always on the search for someone that can do a good job for less.
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I wanted to pay for my wife to have her hair done as part of her birthday present….
I asked for a voucher that would cover a cut and colour.
Her hair at the time was shoulder length.
The hairdresser quoted me $190 Australian dollars!!!
Right there and then I felt sick to my stomach! I just couldn't justify that kind of money.
I told my wife about it after her birthday and she thought that they figured that because I was a male I would have paid that price…..
I have no idea, but that quote was from the start of this year.
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Your hair is gorgeous! I gave up coloring my hair years ago. It's almost all silver now and it was too hard to keep it touched up. I'd end up with a white stripe down the top of my hair after just 2 weeks!
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Thanks for sharing the shampoo and conditioner - next time I am near an Aldi (not regularly), I will pop in and look for some.
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For years I dyed my own hair and Mr FF trimmed it with kitchen shears because I couldn't be bothered to go to the hairdressers. I now have a friend come to the house to trim it and foil it. She says she doesn't want money but I always pay her for her time. Where I live a trip to the hairdresser for foils and a trim is $350. A packet of hair dye is $17. My Mum just came back from London and was mainly in Belsize Park and was SHOCKED at how cheap groceries in Waitrose were compared to here. You would collapse at the cost of groceries in Oz. Love the blog x
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Gorgeous, gorgeous hair! Mine was almost to bra fastening until two weeks ago when I had a few inches cut off as the sides were shorter and scrappy. Looks much better now but I will let it go longer when sides catch up. Mine is natural grey but if you don't look too closely it could be very blonde! Depends on your attitude. I'm 68 and still like my hair long.
I find short hair very boring!
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Oh, by the way, my haircut costs £7.00 in the market.
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I get my hair cut maybe twice a year…I am very grey, and dye my hair once a month. My hubby does the job for me saving me $130 at the hairdressers. The dye costs about $14, but I try to pick it up on special for around $12 and buy several packets at a time…I also cut my hubby and son's hair at home.
You have very pretty hair Froogs 🙂
x
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Your hair looks great!
I haven't been to the hairdressers for 14 years! I colour it myself every 6 weeks and as you buy when on offer only and stock up.
I use value shampoo and conditioner and only wash 3 times a month. My hair is great non greasy and doesn't smell! Just rinse as necesary in between.
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Why are you fighting the fight, what's wrong with embracing the grey?
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Obviously Sarah, you daft bint, because I want to!
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Hi
This query has actually nothing to do with todays post but there you go!
You have inspired me to start quilting and have just finished my first (small) quilt. I am pleased with it as a first attempt but “could do better!”.
My wadding was not all it should be so could you advise me on what you use and where you get it from?
Many Thanks and carry on with your good work. I read your blog every day!
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You have beautiful hair. I love to see long hair on other people but not on me I have short sharp choppy blonde hair.
It's kept in trim by a six weekly visit to the hairdresser, it costs me £32 a time for the cut, but it's worth every penny. I get seriously depressed if my hair gets long I don't know why.
I save money by colouring it myself, one box of 'bought as a bargain 2 for 1 etc' colour does me two goes.
I only ever had it coloureod once in a salon and it cost me £75 and that was a few years ago, what a waste of money, it grew out after just 3 or 4 cuts as my hair is short…never again.
I think I may have a touch of grey now, but I have no intention of waiting to find out.
I may let it go au naturalle when I can be assured it would all be lovely and silver like Judi Dench or Julie Walters, while there are still dark roots I will continue to dye!!
Sue xx
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Such beautiful hair and such a shame to waste money on hair dye - frugal is as frugal does.
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absolutely nothing! i stopped colouring my hair 5 years ago (at 27 i already have grey hairs and im not in the slightest bit worried) and have never looked back. i cut my own hair too. even my sons.
i stopped because i wasnt sure about the chemicals in hair dye but thats another matter entirely.
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Froogs you are sooo lucky that you suit long hair!
I do get mine cut a good hairdressers once every eight weeks, it is my one treat, I totally switch off from the cares and worries of living with multiple disabilities in the home.
However I do colour my own hair but only the underneath sides which drive me nuts!! I don't mind the odd grey coming through on the top but not the sides, so I mix one teaspoon from each bottle, slap it on and forty five minutes later it's all done. I bought the packet for £5 in the sale and reckon it will last me a good while.
San
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Now, not knowing you I am not sure whether the 'daft bint' was meant in a sort of 'ho, ho, you silly so and so' sort of way, or that I am really a daft bint?
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I have long hair too and I'm 43, that must be an European thing, almost all my friends have at least shoulder length hair !
I go to the hair dresser twice a year to have it layered; I have very thick straight hair and they don't look good without a bit of layering (cost 20 €)
I'm starting to have some grey but I don't want to put harsh chemicals on my head, so I dye with henna every other month or so, I need almost a whole day each time but it's very good for the hair (I put some olive oil and a egg yolk in the mix). I know this won't work any more when I have more grey since it's not as powerful as a chemical dye, I think I will go natural then, but I feel too young for it now !
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I am 54 and my super-short, straight hair is mostly grey at the front the salt and pepper towards the backThere are even 3 patches which are white because my hair fell out a year or so ago and when it regrew it was white. How do I know? Because it is grey and gorgeous and has been for 10 years since I last coloured it. I used to buy colour and do it myself but decided that I really shouldn't be pouring chemicals into my scalp.
I spend $35 each time I have it cut and if I was vain (and had money to waste) that would be every 4 weeks, however, I usually get it cut every - 8 weeks.
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Hi Froogs so glad to see you back and looking so well :)Been thinking about you and praying for you. I have been away on holiday and now back to frugality. I dye my own hair too and have recently got it to the longer length that I wanted. I use to go to a hairdresser and she constantly kept cutting it shorter than what I asked her too … I now go to a training college and it costs so little to have it cut. It is cut exactly the way I want it to be and I am very happy with the longer style. I always give an extra few pounds to the student as a tip and it is still miles cheaper than a salon. Your hair looks absolutely beautiful. Thanks for all your tips 🙂
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I get one haircut a year for $30. If I want some summer highlights, I use my bottle of Sun-in which cost a few dollars (4? 3?).
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I have medium to long naturally curly hair which I have cut myself for the last 20 years as I can't stand the waste if money and the disappointment! I can style, thin, and treat my hair better than any hairdresser ever found.
I dye my hair myself from a trusted brand bought when on offer only, and only wash with cheapy shampoo (Tesco value or Lidl) but use conditioner combed through and left in to stop frizziness.
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I haven't been near a hairdressers in over 5 years!! I trim my own hair though I've promised myself a cut price proper trim for £10 at some new 'alternative' salon nearby. As for dying - my hair changes from scarlet to pink to purple depending on my mood. Bottle of dye £3.50 mixed with conditioner to go further so lasts me several months
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I dye my own hair too. I buy a brand that is often 3 for 2 . So much cheaper than getting it done at the hairdressers. You have beautiful hair froogs.
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Using our quotes page you can search for a specific hair cuts or select multiple hair cuts simultaneously, then just add your hair cuts details and ask for a quote.
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I dye my hair every three to four weeks and it only costs me £1 a time!
I found that when i dyed my whole head with home dyes my hair was in poor condition and went almost black even when following the instructions. I now use nice and easy permanent hair dye along with brush and tray saved from one of the nice and easy root touch up packs. The two bottles of solution in the pack are 60ml each and mixed in equal proportions. Each time i only mix up what i need to do my roots (normally 15ml of each, measured using a 5ml medicine spoon). I do ask for help from my daughter and husband to apply the bits i can't reach. In this way one pack lasts four months and if bought when on special ie £8 for two, then my root touch ups cost £1 a time and my hair looks better and is much healthier. Every three months or so i put the nice and easy semi-permanent on when the ends of my hair are fading.
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