Posted on 10/12/2019 3:19:28 AM PDT by Libloather
How much is too much to blow on a new ‘do?
Ever since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got the $260 cut and color heard ’round the world, reactions have been mixed. Detractors accuse her of “champagne socialism,” while others argue the price tag is within reason for a public figure — and a New Yorker at that.
“I don’t think it’s outlandish,” megastylist Scott Buchanan tells The Post. Prices at his five NYC-area Scott J salons start at $75 for a cut and $90 for color, with lowlights such as the ones AOC received starting at $160.
He also notes that a haircut with celebrity hairdresser Frederic Fekkai costs $750.
A 2016 report by digital payment company Square found that New York women spend an average of $50.80 on a professional shear. (The price dips down to $41.30 for men.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Out here in flyover country, it was quite extravagant.
Just saw imamofpeace has posted photos on twitter that look like Omar and her married lover attending the protest at trumps rally.
It really does look like them
I paid $60 (with tip) to my hairdresser this week. It’s worth it to me.
We’re spending way too much time obsessing over this ditz if we’re critiquing her salon habits.
My stylist (suburban NJ) charges $35 for a simple haircut for women and $25 for men, and has been doing so for years, if not decades. (I give her $35 under the theory of “equal pay for equal work” and also because the two people that I always want to be on the good side of are my barber and my tailor.)
If she spent her own money, should it matter to anyone what she spent?
Hm, my lady barber cuts my hair for $12.
You probably have as much hair as I do. That’s about $0.50 per hair clipped! Ha ha.
Could it be that Occasional Cortex isn't as stupid as we think she is? Could it be that Boston University taught her that the way to make millions was to get elected to Congress?
LOL. Just for giggles, I’d like to see them ask this question Upstate.
Same here. I pay $16 for a cut and don’t need anything else.
B, who do you think earned the money to pay AOC?
As my brilliant hubby, a taxpayer, put it: If our pols can afford $300 dollar haircuts, we’re paying them too damn much.
They go to the heart of the asylum and ask one crazy if another crazy is out of line.
Many Many years ago, I seem to remember Hillary getting a haircut on Air Force One by someone famous, on the tarmac of a public airport where the hairdresser was from. I also seem to remember the price for the hairdresser to make a house call was thousands of dollars. And we paid for it.
What I’d like to see is a breakdown of the 325.00 Scott J. charges. I’d bet, working in NYC, he keeps precious little of that.
Actually, while she may have paid a lot more than she should if she wants to keep up the “impoverished Latina innocent” shtick, she didn’t pay too much by New York standards. Image is important if you’re a public person and Supercuts is just not going to do the job.
However, if she wants to whine about not getting paid enough or criticize “the wealthy,” she might want to rethink her choice in stylists. Or just shut up.
What this is really about isn’t so much price, it’s value.
In my neck of the woods, what $300 goes for: a car payment, a monthly health insurance premium, the month’s grocery bill, the amount put aside per month for annual property taxes for an inexpensive home), utilities...
Now ask someone in my neck of the woods what $300 item do you value more: something from my list above or a trip to the hair salon, the vast majority up here will answer the former.
Then gently suggest you are nuts for asking. :-)
Either pols don’t get this, or they’ve stopped giving a damn.
Bill Clinton got the haircut on Air Force One.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/21/us/haircut-grounded-clinton-while-the-price-took-off.html
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