Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 03, 2024

Looking natural doesn’t come cheap.

Hmmm..  $180 to look ten years older

Lightening and toning dark hair while keeping it healthy is a huge process.

If the stylist got Janis to her natural gray in one visit, she’s ended the cost of monthly root touch-ups.

No transition time to get natural

Happy Wife, Happy Life

Darker hair accentuates the wrinkles on the face.

Cheaper than a divorce and trying to find a trophy wife.

I need some enlightenment here. In the first panel, she intones she was already coloring her hair (since she was unhappy with how it was growing out), no? Why would the cost of a new but different color be any different than the coloring she was already getting?

Natural state…is that the old “Hippie” from years ago? That’s my wife.

She got her hair dyed to match her pants…too funny!

$180 !!! . . . thank goodness for baldness

“It costs a lot to look this cheap.” --Dolly Parton

Money well spent if it makes her happy

I stopped coloring my hair 5 years ago. One less thing to worry about.

A close friend kept having her hair dyed, pretending it wasn’t going gray—in her 60s! She thought darker hair looked more professional. I’ve just let mine do whatever it wants, and I was equally successful in the same profession.

I suspect our different approaches come from our different types of hair. Hers is straight, so she’s always had to choose between letting it hang kind of lank or paying for elaborate cuts. Mine’s crazy-curly, so I’ve always just had a trim now and then and let it do as it pleased… including turning kind of gray now that I’m in my late 70s.

Covid brought out the natural hair color in lots of folks and obviously saved them a bunch of money along the way.

$180? What did she do go to Great Clips? My Lovely Bride typically doesn’t get out of such a service for less than 3 Benjamins. Arlo is spot on in his assessment!

yikes! That is extortion. :{

Her hair looks nice, but she should have gone there in pants of a different color.

That price would have stopped me right there. I go to the technical college for my hair needs.

Must not be living in a major city to get it done that inexpensively…

Janis is definitely becoming frumpy.

Quite a scandalous price for such a poor result !

It costs less to look natural. The expense is all the hair dyes, and highlights, and fancy cuts/styles, plus all the goop you have to use to keep it looking “fashionable”….I hate that word!

Typical woman: Is there an artificial method to make me look natural?

Color is expensive. Even the Hair Cuttery charges me $50.

The further you push yourself to be something other than your true self, getting yourself back to being you is costly and time consuming. It takes massive effort, and you lose friends who can’t handle the real you. $180 is cheap, even if it doesn’t include a tip.