Haircuts

[Boy With A Problem]

Ok boys and girls - How much do you pay for a haircut?

I pay 8 £ - it went up a £1 from the last time I went - and I tip £2 - so £10 at a barber shop - but the barbers are women - though I don't think I've ever seen any women getting their hair cut in there - two seats. It's owned by the same people who run the dry cleansers next door, which I don't patronize anymore by mutual agreement. In the states I think I paid about $15, roughly the same at a strip mall place with probably ten chairs - sinks for shampoo - all women stylists and both men, women and children getting their hair worked on. Both places walk in service - no appointments.

Now we find out that this Edwards character pays between $200 and $400 per haircut - and I have a feeling that he's getting his cut more often than once every six to eight weeks (about my schedule). Is this out of line? Do we want a leader who spends that much on a hair cut? Does it matter?
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WASHINGTON - Looking pretty is costing John Edwards' presidential campaign a lot of pennies. The Democrat's campaign committee picked up the tab for two haircuts at $400 each by celebrity stylist Joseph Torrenueva of Beverly Hills, Calif., according to a financial report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

FEC records show Edwards also availed himself of $250 in services from a trendy salon and spa in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 in services from the Pink Sapphire in Manchester, N.H., which is described on its Web site as "a unique boutique for the mind, body and face" that caters mostly to women.

A spokeswoman for Edwards' campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Torrenueva — who specializes in men's haircuts — confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press that Edwards is a longtime client and friend.

"I do cut his hair and I have cut it for quite a while," Torrenueva said. "We've been friends a long time."

Referring to a picture of Edwards published Tuesday in The Los Angeles Times, Torrenueva said: "That's my cut." The stylist said he couldn't vouch for the source of Edwards' haircuts in other photos.

One reason the cost of the cut was so steep even by Beverly Hills standards is that Torrenueva went to Edwards rather than the candidate coming into the stylist's salon a block off Rodeo Drive.

"I go to him wherever convenient," Torrenueva said. He declined to identify where the cuts paid for by the campaign took place.

Campaign records also show the former North Carolina senator's campaign paid $248 on March 1 to the Designworks Salon in Dubuque.

According to Designworks' Web site, the salon and spa features a wide variety of beauty and health services, including massages, facials, body polishes, self tanners, and rosemary mint and Caribbean therapy body wraps.

The salon's owners did not return a call.

Pink Sapphire co-owner Ariana Franggos said the two payments last month_ $150 on March 7 and $75 on March 20 — were for doing Edwards' makeup for television appearances. She handles makeup for local television personalities and was referred to Edwards through that connection.

"This poor guy. I'm telling you, I promise he's not in here getting facials and cucumber peels on his eyes or anything," she said.

Edwards, 53, who has made alleviating poverty the central theme of candidacy, has been criticized for building a 28,000-square-foot house for $5.3 million near Chapel Hill, N.C. The complex of several buildings on 102 acres includes an indoor basketball court, an indoor pool and a handball court.

Edwards, who was John Kerry's vice presidential runningmate in 2004, is also the subject of a YouTube spoof poking fun at his youthful good looks. The video shows the candidate combing his tresses to the dubbed-in tune of "I Feel Pretty."

In 1993, Cristophe gave former President Clinton a $200 haircut aboard Air Force One as it sat on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport. Late-night comedians and columnists poked fun at the president for the expensive cut.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_ ... ds_hair_11

[Mr. Average]

I live in the land of the fruits and the nuts, Sunny Southern California.

The cheapest haircut price I have found at the Fantastic Sams type joints is the equivalent of a flowbie bowl cut when I was a kid, @ $15 bucks. Crap shoot. Even the same "stylist" at the same shop will cut it differntly each time.

When I was a kid we went to see Junior complete with the barber pole that mystically rotated in a peppermint swirl. There was only one major style where I grew up...the crew cut.

Bonus was one piece of Bazooka Bubble Gum with the hilarious comics as the inside wrapper. The single piece of Bazooka tutti-frutti gum was actually scored so it could be shared with another. Only problem was a half piece of Bazooka rapidly shrank during chompin' to about the size of pea.

[migdd]

Having very little hair. . .$12.00 for a #1 razor shave. I could do it myself for free but am too lazy and like to support the local economy.

I used to go to Shante, a stylist I met while I was still single, had a bit more hair and she was employed by Great Clips. Later, my entire family went to Shante for the monthly ritual. She had opened her own place here in rural Clover, SC with her husband Elvis (I kid you not!! I won't divulge his last name - not Costello- because you would not believe me!), whom she was training in the fine art of haircutting. A couple of years later, Mr. Shante was arrested for pandering child pornography on the internet and their shop was shut down for a time as he served his sentence. We had found other places to have our hairs cut. Recently, she has resumed their practice in the back of a tobacco shop run by her recently-released spouse; however, we have not yet been by to visit.

Clover is a wonderful small rural town much like the once tiny town of New Milford, Connecticut (now a suburb of New York City) where I grew up. Everyone in Clover knows everyone else, even the child pornographers and sex offenders, whose names are listed each week in the local paper. It's engaging, homey and surreal, all at the same time.

And a simple adult haircut is only $12.

[Who Shot Sam?]

I dunno - $15 or so. I really need one now.

[Tim(e)]

I don't - I just take to myself with the scissors every now and then.

[miss buenos aires]

I go to the Aveda Institute and get a student cut for about $20. They're really good, too! And highlights are only $35--best-kept secret in NYC.

[BlueChair]

The most I've ever paid for a haircut is $33 ($29.25 US). It wasn't worth it, but I still went back a few times.

The cheapest I ever paid was $15 ($13.29 US). They murdered my hair.

Usually for about $20-$25 I can get a decent haircut. Unfortunately I have yet to find a hairdresser that understands me.

[mood swung]

and you really have to be careful when you have award-winning hair!

$15 for me and it's hit or miss. More hit than miss lately. After 4 years, we are beginning to understand each other. My next door neighbor did my hair for years and it was fabulous, but the chemicals got to her so she quit and eventually moved away. A good hairdresser is worth his or her weight in gold.

[Goody2Shoes]

I pay about $50 for my haircut and something around the same amount for color/highlights, which is perhaps more than I should pay, but I,embarrassingly, dread a bad haircut, and we have nothing like Ms. BA's Aveda institute, which I would give my eye teeth for. My hairdresser is great and she understands my hair, which is on the recalcitrant side, and so requires her expertise. I tip her well, too, because as Moody says, a good hairdresser is worth her weight in gold.

Now we find out that this Edwards character pays between $200 and $400 per haircut - and I have a feeling that he's getting his cut more often than once every six to eight weeks (about my schedule). Is this out of line? Do we want a leader who spends that much on a hair cut? Does it matter?

I don't care how much our leaders spend on their hair, if he has the money to spend, which John Edwards obviously does. If the issue is that it's inappropriate that his campaign funds are being spent on haircuts, then that's something for the campaign donors to consider. I don't care what desginer clothes Nancy Pelosi wears. I don't care that Hillary Clinton has thick ankles. I don't care that Dick Cheney shot his hunting buddy or that his daughter is gay. I think, in general, we worry too much about how our leaders look and how they live, and not enough about how they lead and govern.