Quote from: Squirrel698 on May 18, 2010, 02:11:06 PMI think the price difference may come down to the shampoo? My partner gets the men's price but doesn't get shampooed. I don't care either way. I can wash my hair at home.
Wow, this brings back memories. Some twenty years ago, I cut my long hair in two stages--first to my shoulders, then to a men's style. I didn't go to a barbershop for the men's style because I was intimidated and had also heard that some barbershops will not clip women. So I went to this place by my house for both cuts. I guess it was a salon, but it was unisex and casual.
When I cut my hair to shoulder length, the stylist washed my hair and all of that. I hated it but meekly put up with it--paid more, of course. When I went back the second time to have it all chopped off, I specifically said that I wanted to cut it all off and get a men's cut "like my boyfriend has." I thought the guy would just cut it and charge me for a men's haircut.
Nope. He trucked me off to the sink and washed it and conditioned it...then cut off most of the hair he had just washed and conditioned. And charged me the women's price, of course. I thought they washed everyone's hair, so I didn't ask the stylist to skip that step.
I didn't go back there when I got my head shaved. I had a nightmare vision of their shaving off all of the hair they had just shampooed. That would have been too absurd. And absurdly expensive.
