A $24,720 Hair Cut? Only if You're the Sultan of Brunei

Posted Aug 25th 2009 at 7:30PM by Courtney Dunlop (Subscribe to Courtney Dunlop's posts)

Behold! The $24,720 haircut! Seriously -- that cut. Photo: Getty Images

It's good to be one of the richest men in the universe. While everyone else in the world is gritting their teeth against the recession, you get to spend over $20,000 to fly a barber from England -- in a private cabin so he doesn't catch swine flu -- to trim your conservative world-ruler 'do.

Daily Mail reports that the barber, who normally charges about $50 for a cut, has been attending to the Sultan's hair for 16 years, so that presumably means the Sultan would just swing by England whenever he needed a trim. I guess he couldn't squeeze it into his schedule this time around!

This outrageously pricey trim is now considered to be the most expensive haircut ever. Well, we should hope so!

We remember thinking that Sally Hershberger's $600 charge back in the early Nineties was scandalous. She now charges $800, as does Orlando Pita, and a cut with Ted Gibson will run you $950.

Now those prices seem like chump change.

It's not just haircuts that are getting crazy-expensive. Check out our thoughts on the $140 shampoo here!

Tags: hair, hair cut, HairCut, orlando-pita, sally-hershberger, sultan of brunei, SultanOfBrunei, ted-gibson

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john 8-25-2009 @ 8:32PM

Didn't Bill Clinton tie up airport traffic for a couple of hours getting a private haircut on his plane on the tarmac? That had to cost about as much in airport time.

Deus 8-25-2009 @ 9:26PM

Ha Ha Ha the Sultan has been dooped ! ! !

Trigeia Twins 8-25-2009 @ 10:06PM

Is that what the hair cut looks like ? I mean come on whats the catch was his hair cut using diamond scissors while soaking it in liquid gold?
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abbyvlle 8-25-2009 @ 11:28PM

You would think for that kind of money he could of cut it so the one side didn't stick out.

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Jo Ann Johnson 8-30-2009 @ 7:08PM

That is just absurd.

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And people everywhere ARE LITERALLY STARVING TO DEATH.

Janeyre 8-26-2009 @ 1:14AM

He should get a refund. That is ugly, looks like Gumby...

macro 8-26-2009 @ 1:56AM

Looks like a job from Supercuts but 2060 times the price.

adam 8-26-2009 @ 5:55AM

well to pay over 20 000 dollars for a hair and you still look like that ?? its a shame

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