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The €10 haircut salon has become quite a phenomenon in Germany.
Mainz now has one, too.
Production line, no appointments. no frills, just the basic “wash and cut”, blow-drying costs extra but you can do it yourself for free.
It’s very entertaining. Almost as good as a trip to the laundromat.
I was intrigued to watch one person having her hair wrapped in copious quantities of aluminium foil on to which the hairdresser was plastering even copiouser quantities of gunk. She looked like something out of one of David Bowie’s “Diamond Dog” – era videos…
Or a scarecrow.
Or a lightning conductor
You can see her slightly bemused look in the corner of the picture.
I’d look bemused, too.
I’m told that this is how you get highlights. I’ve seen (paid) the bills for this stuff, so I know it costs more than €10…
My hairdresser – you take potluck – was all my nightmares rolled into one – looked about 12 years old, technicolour hair, something glittery attached to her upper lip and the standard “hipster-bare midriff-muffin bulge-tramp stamp” uniform.
The scalping took all of 8 minutes.
I think I only got €5 worth.
A hat is probably appropriate attire for the next couple of months.
Mainz Daily Photo 
>€10 is as cheap as chips around here. I used to pay almost 3 times as much when I was doing the corporate thing.Then I let it grow for a year and got it cut in Nelson NZ for NZ$20 (sunshine wages…)Not quite sure what to do in future….!
>ten euros is relatively cheap. My normal barber charges only £3.50 {about five euros) but sometimes I go to others that charge the equivalent of about 10 euros for a usually excellent cut that includes trimming my beard and eyelashes, but not washing.My wife normally has to pay two to three times more than that for a simple blow-dry.