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"   For years my boyfriend paid $25 (including tip) to get his hair cut at a small, nondescript salon in our neighborhood. The price may have been right, but the results ranged from mediocre to &amp;quot;was the stylist blind?&amp;quot; Then, on a complete whim (and without consulting me first), he walked into Cutler, a super-chic NYC salon where he got the best haircut of his life. The price? $90 (not including tip). Needless to say, he experienced a serious case of sticker shock. Now he has to decide which is more important: his hair or his wallet. A year or so ago I would&amp;#039;ve told him to splurge on the expensive haircut, but these days I&amp;#039;m not so sure. The statistics about the average cost of a haircut vary, but a few years ago American Salon, a publication for beauty industry professionals, reported the numbers as $21 for a cut in a salon with fewer than 6 chairs, and $44 for a salon with more than 13 chairs. (I assume the average price for a man&amp;#039;s haircut is slightly less.) In New York City, some stylists actually charge 14 to 18 times that. They justify their crazy-high prices by saying that your hair is the first thing people notice about you. Back in 2004, Kelly Bensimon from The Real Housewives of New York City told the New York Times, &amp;quot;I know women who spend $400 on a pair of shoes they wear once,&amp;quot; Ms. Bensimon said. &amp;quot;Why not spend $600 on a haircut that lasts for six months and turns a nobody into a somebody?&amp;quot; I think I speak for all of us when I say that even the best haircut in the world isn&amp;#039;t worth eating cereal for dinner for the rest of your adult life. What&amp;#039;s the most you would spend on a haircut and how much are you currently forking over to your stylist? RELATED LINKS: \u2022 Making the Cut \u2022 20 Sexy Ideas for Long Hair \u2022 Hair That Gets You What You Want \u2022 MORE BEAUTY SECRETS: Visit Cosmo&amp;#039;s Sexy Beauty Secrets Blog! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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