This is a related to a recent story: http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/node/6340.

Where are some great places to get your hair cut?

Are there any places where salons litter the street and you have a lot to choose from?

where is cheap? where is super high-quality?

Salons & stylists come and go, good today, terrible the next..After several years, I'm still searching...

Yeah, hair today, gone tomorrow...

Ha ha. I don't have a lot of hair, but have good service from my local guy in the burbs.
I do not want the shampoo thingy.
10 minutes, all done, rmb 5, me happy.
Anybody beat that?

monalisalee wrote:Ha ha. I don't have a lot of hair, but have good service from my local guy in the burbs.
I do not want the shampoo thingy.
10 minutes, all done, rmb 5, me happy.
Anybody beat that?

Nope, I still have pretty much full head of hair and takes about 35-40 mins, no shampoo thingy and also rmb 5 with discount card. Salon with about 15 chairs in Pudong.

Reference,

good-hair-cuts-for-men-t110951.html

I get mine done over by my hotel in the Hongkou district. It includes a shampoo, scalp massage, neck and back massage, as well as the haircut of course. All of this comes out to 18 RMB.

I go to Juno Hair in Super Brand Mall.

Korean place on the 7th Floor. Reason being is that the guy knows how to cut my hair there. and they are quick and the cost is quite fair as well. 81 RMB with a member card

There are salons every 50 meters. Stylists move about all the time so you won't be able to find one and have them for years or even months.

In my dusty pages town a haircut, shampoo, scalp massage, neck massage and shave come to 8 RMB.
At another 'spa' a facial, scalp massage, neck massage, back massage and shave come to 15 RMB.

The question is really not price or availability, it's which ones can handle a laowai's hair for a good value. After all white, Hispanic and/or black hair is pretty different from Asian hair. I remember ABCs back in the States were always buzzing their own hair and complaining about how the hairdresser never did it right. Then again it could have been the lack of bleach and spikes.

For the record, a quality buzzer is pretty damn expensive here, I got one on Taobao from Wenzhou factory that was an utter piece of crap and pulled my hair, hurt like a beotch. Then I brought one from home and intelligently plugged it directly into my bathroom mains, promptly causing it to short circuit.

There are saloons. But Which one is best.

ellaflemming07 wrote:There are saloons. But Which one is best.

Best is all in the eye of the beholder. As the saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure". Haircut quality is really a pretty personal decision so you really need to find someone you are happy with. Many of us are thrilled with our rmb 5 haircuts and even though we use the same place each time, we rarely get the same barber twice because of turnover. I have found that if you are specific in what you want, the Chinese barber will do exactly what you ask them to do. Go to the higher price joints and you are at the mercy of what the hairdresser thinks would be best for you which may in your eyes be a total disaster.

I think most people that get terrible haircuts just told the barber/hairdresser to use their best judgement and that is a recipe for disaster.

monalisalee wrote:Ha ha. I don't have a lot of hair, but have good service from my local guy in the burbs.
I do not want the shampoo thingy.
10 minutes, all done, rmb 5, me happy.
Anybody beat that?

Invested in hair trimmer Wahl in 2002 (was then my second pair) £9 (something) cut, or should i say trim me hair ever 2 weeks probably less than 5rmb as should have written off the cost of the trimmer bu now.

O.K. 9 + quid = about RMB 110. That at two weeks and 8 years is about .52 RMB per each.

Yep you win. (hands down) Does your wife do the doings?
My wife wants to do my hair. She's Chinese. (anything to save money)
Might have to give it a go.

I went to a large salon on Chifeng lu N of the metro, there seem to be 3 or 4 right on this road. I was very happy with the haircut, but I am a 40 year old with male pattern baldness, so not too much to cut. I always opt for the scalp massage which included an ear cleaning, arm and neck massage. The breakdown was 20 rmb for the massage and 10 for the haircut. I was probably there close to 1.5 hours so I thought the haircut was well worth the price.

monalisalee wrote:O.K. 9 + quid = about RMB 110. That at two weeks and 8 years is about .52 RMB per each.

Yep you win. (hands down) Does your wife do the doings?
My wife wants to do my hair. She's Chinese. (anything to save money)
Might have to give it a go.

Never let my wife cut my hair...she has habit to trying to shave the hairs from other parts of my anatomy.... arms and chest. Shes japanese me Indian orgins and we are hairy.
I am very good at doing my own hair, years of practice. Started when could not find decent barber in Hemel Hempstead of all places.
Only once has the attachment fallen off resulting in my having to shave it all off to the skull

There's a few salons on Wulumuqi Rd near Fuxing Xi Rd. They have quite a few foreign clients and do a decent wash and trim for around 48rmb. I usually get a good cut back home in Australia and then trimmed when in Shanghai. It's safer then and they don't go crazy with their new styles.

When I need a good cut I would go to Douglas King on Ju Lu Lu. 300rmb and does a fabulous job.

Adrienne