Hi there i know this could be a longshot but are there any thai female hairdressers in or around the birmingham/wolverhampton area?you know what these thai ladies are like with there hair.

Mook goes to a thai hairdressers but it is in shepherds bush in london, sorry but i dont know of one in Birmingham

well many thanks for this im sure if there isnt any in the birmingham area,the wife will run to the car for a nice day trip to london aha-aha.

My wife has a hair cut about once a year - in LOS!

I think we are heading in the same direction Caller. Nid has been reluctant to pay the fees over here, apart from the time she saw the £2.50 stall in the market. I dont know which was worse - the haircut or the 'cheapskate' looks I got from the staff

Rob

my wife gets her hair cut at the local college where she studies a fraction of the cost, have a look into it

i think we must all be skinflints, as my wife only has 1 haircut a year also.........
i think she paid about 40 pounds once for a cut and dye and she was so shocked, she never had it done again.

no doubt she will return from thailand on saturday looking totally different

yeah , funny you say that. Mook thinks that she is being ripped off if its more than £10. I tell her that womens styling is always more than a gents cut, but she never beliefs me.
i'll look into the college haircuts for her. amazing really!! she never quibbles about paying £20 for a smelly durian

my wife sa, in loughborough cuts hair for all the Thai ladys in our area

I smell a business here

Hi Andy,

I better visit you sometimes to get Sa cutting my hair

Anyway I never have hair done here at all ( almost 3 years now) as I saw my MIL have her hair done just wash and set cost her about £20 Imagine my hair is about 5 times longer than her??!!!???

And also she gotta have her nails (feet) cut now and again ... just CUT, no washing, no coloring it costs £25

I told her if she has that done in Thailand (for her nails) it will cost around 30 bahts (50 pences) and she was amazed..lol

I better get the qualification of nails care course and open my own shop

Nana

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i'll look into the college haircuts for her

The colleges are cheaper but a hair cut can take all day (literally).

Packpao

since my wife arrieved here 6 months agos she never ask me about haircut because she told me not cheap anymore but she ok for nice long black hair...

I cut my wife's hair ,although only on the ends when needed, and colour it sometimes too. I just put red streaks in it for her last weekend!

The wife says the hairdressers contected to the ART Muay grocery in Earl's Court is pretty reasonable - and they speak Thai as well

- Good Luck

Skippy

Skippy do they take payment in baht as well

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Skippy do they take payment in baht as well

Nah apparently not - although I did tip one of them 50 bht as it was in my walleet and she was heding over there pretty soon afterwards.

You can also use the money service to send Baht to the relatives!!



Skippy

PS - I am not on commission....

Ditto to most above , Dao refuses due to salon prices and trims the ends herself saying will have done properly in LOS on next trip.

On the subject of haircuts she declared she cut her brothers in LOS and could do mine to save £10 at the barbers but it appears she can't so I'm off to the barbers tommorrow to sort it out having had some funny looks on the train to London this week.

Mind you she is very good at cutting nails which seems to occur on a weekly basis
colin 244

AT LAST...............

Well everyone, my wife is a hairdresser and a very good one (so she says). She ran a salon with her cousin for several years in Bangkok. However since she has been in UK, the english hairdressers do not / cannot give her a job - nothing to do with her visa, more their arrogance!!!!(or should that be ignorance)

We live in Preston (lancashire) and once or twice a year go to the temple in birmingham - next trip at thai new year i think, so if you want to get in touch feel free

Paul and Karn

Anyone vaguely near Guildford could have their hair done for somewhat less horrific prices by a Thai lady, Pla. She's a friend and I could put them in touch via PM. She's the only person my wife trusts to have herself refurbished by outside of T-land...

S

Hi all,

My wife is also a hairdresser/stylist/beauty/massage etc etc. She ran her own salon in Chiang Mai until June last year. She's actually working now in a Thai salon in Oxford street in London. They do all sorts there but because of being near the "seedy" part of London they do mainly massage. I must confess I do not like her travelling to London 6 days a week to put her hands all over other people but the money is great for her (£50 per hour for a massage, of which she gets £15).

She really wants to get back into the hairdressing thing but as somebody mentioned above, nobody seems willing to give her a chance. There is also the qualification issue. In the UK a NVQ seems to be generally what is required to be able to be a hairdresser or XXX amount of years experience in a salon.

We live near Bromley (BR7 area) in Kent so if anybody out there local to us needs a haircut please feel free to send me a PM and we'll see what we can do.

Cheers,
Paul.

i didnt think about this at the time but now i worry haha. my wife will be over next month, but she has her hair medium blonde, but with blonde highlights AND low-lights. it costs her about 3000 baht in bangkok but in london this costs from about £150/£250 and UP to have done when her roots start showing she'll wanna do them, uh oh.

just have a go yourself..... whats the worst that can happen?

Yes, my wife is the same, wont pay UK prices so waits to have it done in Bang Pong although she did have it done at the UCB in Birmingham, formerly the College of Food and Domestic Arts in Summer Row, just behind the Central Library. Very reasonable prices and well supervised Stephen and anyone else living in or around Birmingham.