When I go to the hairdressers I always see young girls, where are all the mature hairdressers of 40+ Surely they havent given up?
I would prefure to see a more mature lady who has a wealth of experence.

My hairdresser comes to your house to do the business, shes 40 ish.

Ours is about to shut her salon and do home visits. I'm a bit unsure about this although I want to stay with her. I think she'd have to do the cutting upstairs as it would all prove SO exciting for Maggie and Luke.....;-) How do you cope in this situation?

We used to have it all done in the kitchen at my mums but mum died ,now i just have a dry /wet spray cut,and wash it myself when shes gone, i put a cover on the floor and collect the hair in that, then to save more mess when shes gone i do hubbys and clean up all together, girls are in the lounge with hubby watching us through the stair gate.

Briedog and her husband are mature hairdressers :d  Lovely friendly ones at that too :d :d   So they are out there somewhere.

They are the ones just doing teh odd bit of work but training!! :)

Our Hairdresser is 40ish (bit under!) and she's just brought a saloon, now she plans to do less work and spend more time with her children.  But she wil still do long term customers hair! :) PHEW!  I think I'm classes as long term...every 6 weeks since I was still in my mums tum! :D

no it more work and no play at the moment,

I won a hair dressing salon in Oxford and I tell you what, its a nightmare trying to recruit hairdressers!!! Its a dying trade here I think.  I did have on 40 yr old hairdresser who has recently left to o sewing as a living as she really struggeled with the colour side of things as when she trainined colours were not so advanced she said and really strugled in picking it up

so why didnt you put her on a colouring course,
all our girls go on course to keep up to date,which are run bye the big names in hairdressing.

it is a young person trade to do, for the work and social side after work.it hard go on the feet and the ears all day for the oldleys,andrew still going stronge but sometime comes home to though the towel in,but i been moblie for 25 years to fit in with the kid at first and know the dogs,i do 50 % hairdressing and 50 % teaching swimming which was my hobbie when i was young,
it the young one that have the money to go and the tony and guy and high fashion salon prices,where the the 35 and over have mortages,other out going that why they have moblie or village shop hairdress beacuse it abit cheap than the high street one,

I tend to agree, I have a Saks Hair salon and our market is approx 16-45 and our client tell are either you fashion consious people or peole with a good disposible income.

Hairdressing is not as easy as some people think especially in a forward thinking salon where training is the key to success.  I think the kids that are comming out of school now all think they will go into hairdressing as its easy and you dont need qualifications however most find it arder tan they think.

I was hairdressing for  over 25 years I loved the work  but people used to drive me mad, so gave up its hard work on your feet all day but now I find it a struggle to find and keep a good hairdresser just when you get one they move on . i think the problem is that  people start to lack confidence when getting older  as its an up to the minute career and people want the latest styles even mature ladies want modern styles.
I sometimes sit watching people cutting in salons and they seem to have no pattern i know they must have but doesnt seem like  they will cut all over and it looks fine then start to snip indents in and cant understand why
I was  working   and did cutting courses in early 70s precision cutting and blow drying came popular now styles seem more over the top.
I used to have my hair cut and even if it was due another cut it was still manageble but now after a few weeks its goes into no style at all complete mess.
No disrespect to good hairdressers but now people can set up with no qualifications six months training how can that be ?its a skilled trade and should remain so.

I totally agree it's a skilled trade and takes a long time to achieve. I am not a hairdresser but my Dad is and has his own salon. He often told us wonderful stories when he trained in Soho and Mayfair in the sixties and the famous people he had done and of the strict bosses but who also made sure they were skilled at the job, and how they trained to cut etc. with their right and left hands, and other fun stuff like that. He continues to do courses etc. He does mostly gents but does some women (and all the girls in our family).I often sit in his salon when I am in town (drinking his coffee) as my husbands photography studio is next door and often wonder why I didn't take up the trade myself. love Sonja