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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Cheap and Fabulous Haircut
So as part of my trying to save more money in 2010 I decided to try out a cheap place to get my hair cut. I went to one of those chains..."Cost Cutters" and it was surprisingly great. The cost was only $15!!! The girl did a great job. It is the best cut I have had in a long time. She did exactly what I asked which was just great. I just can't believe I have been spending so much more money. Hopefully this girls stays at this place for a while so I can keep going back!
Re: Cheap and Fabulous Haircut
I've never been able to find a cheap AND good hair salon. I've done a local salon and Super Cuts and never had exactly what I wanted in a style. It wasn't until I got a free trial haircut at a salon on Newbury St, that I have fallen in LOVE with a salon. Thankfully my style is very easy so I don't have to go that often (each trip costs about $75-tip included), plus they do free bang trims which is usually what I have done.
It's really my only splurge each month so I go for it.
This is how I am, too. I don't do mani/pedis or anything else so my haircuts are the one thing I splurge on--except that I go months between cuts so I probably look a shaggy mess a lot of the time
It's great that you could find a place you're happy with for so little $$$, C!
Yes! Kudos to you!!
Yeah I am actually really excited to find such a place. I am trying to find some ways to save a little extra money this year, and so far so good!
Wow J! Since you were two! That is so cool. I used to have an amazing hairdresser in Melrose, and still would go there after I moved when I worked in the city. Once I quit my job though and started working in Lexington there just wasn't a way I could get there. She doesn't work weekends, and her hours during the week are limited to mostly evenings....so I just could not make it work. Since then I have just been going kind of wherever trying out different places.
I don't think (with one exception that follows) that I've ever paid more than $35 for a haircut. Highlighting is a another story.
I'm glad you got a good cheap haircut. I've had cheap ($20) decent haircuts, expensive good haircuts ($50-70), but the most memorable haircut was a freakin' $90 haircut at Ardan in Wellesley. I don't blow dry my hair regularly, ?it's somewhere between straight and wavy, and I get a lot of frizzies (thanks, curly-haired dad) and split ends. So I went to Ardan, the super expensive salon (where my roommate went) and some random woman washed my hair and then gave me over to the stylist, so the stylist never saw my hair dry. She looked at my wet hair and said, "your hair will never have any body if you don't blow dry it." I said I wanted layers- she said, "it will look too limp unless you blow dry it". And when I insisted I wouldn't blow dry it every day, she said the only way my hair would have any body is if she gave me a blunt cut. So she did, a chin-length blunt cut, the same cut my mom used to give me when I was in middle school. And my hair went into the dreaded Keri Russell's Felicity days pyramid. Stylist told me that was just static and it would be fine. Well, it wasn't fine, so I had to call the next day and make her put some layers in, to give it *good* body.
I never went back there. I'm not paying $90 for someone to ignore what I want, and not even look at my hair dry to see how it is. That place is supposed to be such a fabulous salon, but between that haircut and all the bad waxing experiences I had there, I'll never recommend it to anyone.?
So just because a salon is expensive doesn't mean they're good, and as we see today, a cheap salon isn't necessarily bad. Lesson learned.?