Sense and Sensibility

Average cost of a woman’s haircut in Los Angeles: $60 and up.

Trip to the hair salon for shampoo, cut, color and blowdry:

  • Shampoo – $10, tip attendant $5
  • Cut – $60
  • Color – $40
  • Blowdry – $10
  • Tip Stylist 20%: $25
  • Products to maintain look: $30
  • Pay for parking: $5

Grand total: $185

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Average cost of bohemian enjoying the fall of 2008: $20 and up

Trip to Hollywood Boulevard – spot girl with good haircut – ask who her stylist is.  Go see Mary, said girl’s stylist before registering online for autumn enrichment classes:

  • Haircut: $15
  • Tip: $5
  • No blowdry, no color, no product: $0.00
  • Haircolor at beauty supply store: $5
  • Physics class: $100
  • Art class: $60

Grand total: $185

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Cost of fall fashion sense: $185

Cost of art and physics sensibility (and being reasonably tidy for fall): $185

Sense?  Or sensibility?

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