The problem is that money is tight right now for most<\/a> of us. And a proper haircut tends to be a payday treat. Can you afford to give a little dignity back to your \u2018Barnet<\/a>\u2019?<\/p>\n It depends where you live. NetCredit, an online lender<\/a>, researched the price of women\u2019s and men\u2019s haircuts in every country around the world, and we found that the disparity between countries and genders<\/a> is massive. Read on to find the places where getting a haircut is a snip.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scandinavians are famed for their golden locks<\/a>, and the price of a haircut in this northern European region also glitters. Averaged across genders, four of the top ten most expensive haircuts are in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland). Other big economic powers also feature, including the UK.<\/p>\n Click to see full size<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the cheap end of the scale, you\u2019ll find a cut-rate cut in South America, Africa, parts of Asia, and eastern Europe. Argentina is the cheapest overall. Nigeria is sixth-cheapest overall, but it would be different if it weren\u2019t for the 634% disparity between women\u2019s and men\u2019s cuts: a trim costs $13.43 for a Nigerian woman but just $1.83 for a man.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Think Vikings had messy, unkempt hair? Wrong. The steep price of a man\u2019s haircut in Scandinavian countries today reflects a long tradition of Scandi men taking their grooming<\/a> seriously. A man\u2019s cut in Norway costs $64.50 today, the most expensive men\u2019s cut in the world. Norway also has the narrowest price gap between genders out of the top 20 men\u2019s cuts: a woman\u2019s cut costs \u2018just\u2019 20% more, at $77.72.<\/p>\n Click to see full size<\/a><\/p>\n We found nine countries where the five-buck cut (or less) is still the norm for men. The cheapest three are African countries (Zambia, Mozambique, and Nigeria). In Taiwan, a man\u2019s cut costs $2.23 more than a woman\u2019s \u2013 but it might just save your life. At the height of the pandemic, one Taiwanese mom paid for a \u201cdo not dare to go outside<\/a>\u201d hairdo for her 15yo son: a haircut so bad that he wouldn\u2019t dare leave the house to see his friends.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A different Scandi country tops the table for expensive women\u2019s haircuts: Denmark is the only country in the world where a haircut costs more than $100. However, the US and UK aren\u2019t far behind, at $95.00 and $94.71 respectively. The Danish Board of Equal Treatment ordered individual salons to reduce the gender price disparity in 2013, but courts later ruled<\/a> that it was okay to have different prices. Today, the average women\u2019s cut in Denmark costs 112% more than the men\u2019s.<\/p>\n Click to see full size<\/a><\/p>\n All in, Bosnia and Herzegovina may be the fairest place for a woman to get a haircut. Bosnia has the cheapest women\u2019s haircut in the world ($6.20) and a disparity of just 8% – a man\u2019s haircut costs around 47\u00a2 more. Sarajevo, where we took our data, is lined with hairdressers, and the competition keeps prices down. But grooming remains a point of pride for citizens, who even maintained standards during the longest military siege in modern history \u2013 to the extent of holding a \u201cMiss Besieged Sarajevo<\/a>\u201d contest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Men pay more for a cut in just 11 of the 102 countries with available data. The biggest gaps are in Africa and parts of Latin America, although Paraguay has the second-lowest disparity. Fairest of all is the microstate of Andorra in southwestern Europe. Andorran men pay more than women, as is the case in eight of the ten fairest countries.<\/p>\n Click to see full size<\/a><\/p>\n But why does a man\u2019s cut usually cost less? \u201c[I]t doesn’t take as long to cut their hair, but also they’re in the salon more regularly,\u201d explains<\/a> celebrity hairdresser Adam Reed. \u201cAnd there’s less time taken and fewer products used on the finish – for a man it’s four to five minutes, whereas women\u2019s blow-dries can take a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, others are aiming for parity: \u201cWe allow exactly the same amount of time for an appointment whether it’s for a man or a woman,” says Covent Garden hairdresser Neil Moodie. \u201cIt has been a slow process, trying to convince men that they should pay the same as women, but this was mainly due to the cheapness of going to a barber back in the day versus going to a women’s hairdressing salon.\u201d<\/p>\n Click to see full size<\/a><\/p>\n Our prices are averaged, so it\u2019s always possible to find a cheaper cut in your area. If you\u2019re time-rich and money-poor, you can always snag yourself a cheap training session<\/a> with an apprentice hairdresser. And if you can\u2019t afford to make it back to the salon, why not take inspiration from these unlikely quarantine self-haircut wins<\/a>?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We sourced the price of a basic haircut (no beard trim or wash) for both genders in 102 capital cities. If prices were not advertised on the internet, our research team emailed and called businesses for a quote.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone in the world faced the same tough question during endless months of coronavirus lockdown: grow your hair or let …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[626],"tags":[813,6],"class_list":["post-13878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improving-finances","tag-haircuts","tag-infographic-2"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_post_mime_type":"publish","yoast_head":"\nKey Findings<\/h2>\n
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Argentina is Home to the World\u2019s Cheapest Haircuts<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nA Man\u2019s Haircut in Norway is the World\u2019s Most Expensive<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nThe World\u2019s Cheapest Women\u2019s Haircut is in Bosnia \u2013 and it\u2019s Cheaper than Men\u2019s<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWhy (and Where) Does a Woman\u2019s Haircut Cost More?<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nMETHODOLOGY & SOURCES<\/h2>\n