Hair cut
 

I have gone to a few places and yes I pay alot more than I did in NH. I have curly hair so I can’t just go into any place because curly hair takes more time and experience. I also color and every other time I include high lites with tip close to 250. I work so going to the school wouldn’t work for me.

It is the short hair cut look that many women now have in The Villages. I had it for awhile and got a little bored with it, so now have a short bob.

Triple Digit Heat Index. It's a style that always looks nice, rather than long and straggly. Bobs are nice too!
We all look Maaaarvelous, dispite a previous post about the short cut being "menopausal", which begins at 50....so let's get real, right?

Bald is beautiful.....:beer3::beer3:

Went gray and never looked back. Love it.

Ur wife??? :shrug:

Cost of caring for your hair
 

I learned to cut and color my own hair at a cost of $10 per month and continually get compliments about my hair. Found a lot of tips on you-tube that were helpful.

In the olden days women set their own hair. My grandmother had beautiful, almost waist length, white hair which she arranged in various styles. These days a short cut is preferred by many seniors. For that you need another person, preferably someone skilled, to shape your hair. If you wear your hair in a length you can upkeep yourself and you just tweak your natural hair color a bit, you never need to see a salon. It is sort of like nails. I like to let my nails breathe. Very rarely do I put something on them. They are manicured and nurtured with warm oil … but no salon. Invariably, at the salon they either filed down my nails too much, or gave me nail fungus, or promised a shellac that would last two weeks which peeled in 3 days. I find very long nails, like talons, intimidating, but some people seem to like them. If I want to be pampered I go to a spa and have various massages. I find the Princess Fairmont in Scottsdale very refreshing.

HAHAHAHA!!! UR bad!

Welcome to the villages
 

iF YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE BUBBLE YOU WILL GET A BETTER RATE. ALSO NOT A VERY GOOD CUT EITHER.
There is a school in the Villages, watch the paper for their specials. You will probably have a better cut too.

I get mine trimmed once a month,stopped coloring my hair years ago.

Happy with my natural color ������ you'd be surprised what grows in .

I did too!!! I learned how to do both and all of my friends are doing it too!!!
160-350 is outrageous.
To clarify, a $40. cut looks just as good as a 160. Cut from the developers daughter.

Yup especially since it the same cut for both lol

In Ocala you can find a better deal--the shops in TV are more expensive.

Different styles and processes require different costs. A haircut is expensive but my 2 processes (low lights and highlights) are not cheap. We each have different priorities.

Flowbee
 

I asked a woman I worked with where she got her hair cut since I liked it a lot. Floored me when she says she used a Flowbee at home. There are others as well like AirCut. Kudos to the the many unpretentious people here who prioritize having fun over a fancy haircut.

I'm sure that makes him happy. How about you; do you get compliments as well?

Waste of money? Are you sure you are a Jersey Girl? No price is too high for a Jersey Girls hair. Next you will say you do not get the smokey eye.

If a fancy hair cut makes a lady feel good, why insult her? I thank the ladies who spend time and effort on their appearance.

All 3 are excellent----They are right off of Griffin road in lady lake--I use Barbara
 

All 3 are excellent- They are right off of Griffin Road- I use Barbara

Hair Care
 

Sofia's Salon next to MMD Computer on 441 only charges $100 for cut and color. Excellent job and youthful cuts. Not your average old lady salon

Had the smokey eye. Cataract surgery took care of it.

To those who are in the planning stages of buying a house in TV and are coloring in a salon now, I hope you tip your current colorists well. Before you move, you need to get your formula and also the brand of the color used. (Some salons have a rule about giving the client the formula.)

I had to find a salon in TV that used Wella because that was the only brand my hair would grab. Even Goldwell would not work. If your gray/white is resistant, brand can matter.

I used to be in that chair every 4-5 weeks for retouch, highlights (followed by clear for shine) and cut. It was a couple hundred bucks plus tip.

I always said I would not go gently into letting my hair go natural.

Then came Covid and I was not going anywhere, so I grew out my real color. And I love it.

Had I known it was this color all the while that I was spending all that money and time covering it up, maybe I would have let it grow out sooner. . .But I seriously doubt it because it is not easy to put up with those roots if you have a social life. (I had thought about it before, but could never do it.)

Ironically, there was a young woman who saw me in the salon for a cut recently and then told my hairstylist she wanted the same color I have. My hair has different shades of silver and gray and white all through it. Can’t be bought.

I think that Covid cloud had a silver lining for some of us boomers. We are saving a lot of money and rocking our natural hair color.

Vanity, thy name is Boomer

Out of touch with reality?

You live in The Bubble and you have to ask that question?

Amen. I tell my wife it looks BETTER when she does it from the box (her daughter helps her, or I have a few times). I don't get why she sometimes pays $180, but she is convinced it looks just a tiny bit better. Its all in her head. With the box, we can do it once a month instead of 6 weeks so the "blond" stays covered. If you do the box right like you discribe, no way to tell the difference.
Since she will never do the grey villages old lady bob cut(her husband will not allow it), she has to color forever.

wow (cringe, shudder)

Boomer

Nothing wrong with telling each other what you like, and doing what makes the other happy. It has worked for me.

guest
 

As a man I prefer lady barbers as they seem to put more effort into it. The men too often give a $5 cut and $10 worth of Bull S***.