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Monday, September 01, 2008, 23:00
Cutting the cost for men these days is simple. Shave your head!
It's fashionable, low maintenance, occasionally hides the fact that you're losing most of it and relatively simple to do yourself.
But it definitely doesn't look so hot on women. Flashback to Sinead O'Connor a few years back and tell the Avenger he's wrong.
So we're back to the salon with the expensive prices again. Asking for the top hair designer or head stylist will simply add on the bucks.
Having your hair cut and blow dried by a trainee or an apprentice doesn't mean that you'll leave the salon looking like a badly shorn sheep. And it's a lot cheaper.
Toni and Guy in Queen Street has an apprentice on every evening and Tuesday is training night. That means that T and G have about six cutters on the floor.
A cut and blow dry will only cost you a tenner. And remember that the cuts are, of course, supervised.
Across the way, down South Street at HQ Hair and Beauty, Monday is training night. A cut and blow dry by a trainee at HQ will only cost £5!
If you want something a little more complicated such as colouring or a perm and you're open to innovation, you can cut costs again. Be a model for a stylist with new ideas brought back, perhaps, from a show and you could save up to 50 per cent.
And then there are hair products. Why pay a fortune to L'Oreal?
Massaging two raw eggs into your hair and rinsing with white wine vinegar might sound disgusting. But it's disgustingly cheap and when you're done, your hair will, apparently, be gloriously soft, shiny and supple.
Coconut oil is a superb natural hair conditioner and inexpensive. Use just a little and work it through your hair with the tips of your fingers. Leave it overnight and rinse out in the morning to get wonderfully lustrous hair that looks and feels great but doesn't attract monkeys.
Treat oily hair with mashed carrots and dry hair with squashed avocado.
It's possible to get a cheaper cut by going to a training night for hairdressers
