Haircut prices

You’re using the wrong barber.

Mine is €12.

My last haircut i paid for was for my wedding 12 years ago and cost €10. I use a head shaver now and do my facial hair also once a week or so. Man i come accross cheap - no haircuts or razors + shaving cream in 12 years.

It’s 25 in my place for wash and cut but it’s comfortable, clean, they take their time, pay max attention to detail, no sense of rushing and are not overly chatty which is always appreciated..

In contrast about 8 years ago I was going to the merchant barber in temple bar which has closed down and paying almost those prices back then for a dry cut… for a mega rushed dry cut… if you ‘had’ to go on a Friday or Saturday you’d be there waiting 40 minutes and then getting charged top dollar for an absolutely average cut that the barber would make no secret of just getting you sat down and sat up again as fast as humanly possible…. NEXT

so it depends on the value, I get mine cut once a month or even every 5 weeks as I wear it longish mostly but I guess wouldn’t be enamoured paying every 10 days a some guys do…

Random commentary on ethnicities etc removed as its not helping anyone

In the recession years many people looked at becoming a barber and there was a proliferation of them and a race to the bottom. €10 is simply uneconomical.

€15-€20 is more the norm now.

Many also operate an appointment system giving 30 minutes, so maximum turnover per barber is €40/hour. Many good barbers will be vat registered, so that's a fiver gone. Add in the costs of rent, rates, utilities, insurance etc and €20 is quite good value

Just be thankful you are not female. €150-€180 is fairly standard for whatever they get done 🤣

As you get older it wont cost you so much. Some people can even stop going to the barber altogether

All €12 to €15 in town here. And good cuts too.

Some of the more expensive places give you a 'free' beer, no idea how you are supposed to drink it while getting the haircut.

That's become more explicitly illegal so has died off again.

Paid 26 quid in the city centre in a pinch last week. Won't be doing that again - my local is 18. And that's quite an increase from the 13.50 they used to charge regulars (15 otherwise)

25 quid for a dry gents haircut! Fair play to them if they can get enough suckers to pay it. Surely it couldn't take any more than 15 minutes per haircut, someone said 30 minutes- sod that, haven't the patience for that crap!

My local is now 16e. Up from 13.

I get my wife to do it now . She's since done a barbering course and the cuts have improved.

Youve no idea how much training she has 😁

25 quid for under 20 mins work is a bit much. Although I might that pay that rate for the independent smaller barbers provided they do a good job. Covid has been a killer for many of them.

15 quid seems more reasonable to me which is what I got charged on Kevin street yesterday. He did a very good job too.

Found the (first) barber.

There were bans on promotional/bundled sale in 2020 that stopped it.

I always felt €10 was a ridiculous price for a haircut, no wonder its such a badly paid trade. I pay €30 in the small turkish barber near me, I get an excellent cut,beard trim and wash. Fantastic value, that's once every 6-8 weeks

18 in Claregalway.