Consumer Council recently collected prices of ‘wash, cut, and blow-dry’ service from 70 local salons. Result showed that the average price of this kind of service mostly ranged from $100 to $150, followed by $50 to below $100, and most surveyed salons had their price lists clearly displayed.

Consumer Council collected prices of ‘wash, cut, and blow-dry’ service from 70 different salons in Macao earlier and categorized the price range into four levels: below $100, $100 to $150, $151 to $100, and $200 and above. 27 salons or 38.6 percent of the surveyed salons, mostly located at Horta e Costa region, charged $100 to $150 for wash, cut, and blow-dry. The second largest group of 26 salons or 37.1 percent of the surveyed salons, mainly located at S. Lourenço and northern area, charged $50 to $100 for the same kind of service. Some salons located in central area were found to be charging only $50 to $100. 11 salons charged $151 to $200 while less than 10 percent of the surveyed salons charged over $200.

The lowest price recorded in this survey was $50 whereas the highest was $680. Price difference may be caused due to scale of businesses and popularity of salons, some salons were also found to charge differently for different stylists and therefore displayed their prices as ‘From $XXX’. Most of the surveyed salons had their detailed price lists clearly displayed, only 2 salons located at Rotunda de Carlos da Maia did not have any price list displayed at their shopfronts.

The above-mentioned price survey on salon’s ‘wash, cut, and blow-dry’ service is available on Consumer Council’s website (www.consumer.gov.mo). For enquiry, please call 8988 9315.