To wonder how people will afford their many beauty treatments?

I think we all have our own ideas of what’s important for us. I have my hair cut about every 6 weeks and had spent a while growing out my coloured chair and embracing my natural grey just before the first lockdown. Perfect timing. I love having a back, neck and shoulder massage every couple of weeks and have a bit of waxing done regularly to keep things neat and tidy! I can manage without but def feel bette when it’s been done professionally. I have my nails done once in a blue moon - special events and maybe Christmas. I can manage without all of this, except the hair cuts, but I can afford them and enjoy them so I indulge!

snowberryZ, people budget (or not) in wildly different ways - depending on their priorities. Not everyone lives within their means, either.

I know someone who 'lives for today', is high maintenance, a clothes shopping addict, eats out, holidays etc. - yet is terribly in debt. Sometimes, she 'clears' her credit cards - by increasing her mortgage. I'd be worried sick - but she doesn't care.

People will always afford the things they think are priority .I've had a friend for 40 years who regularly tells me how broke she is but she spends huge amounts of money on several holidays a year Not ever been a priority for me. .
I buy lots of CD's and books and fairly expensive skincare ,none of those my friend would spend on.

Grandmarderby those horrible misshapen lips are absolutely hideous. Why do they do it ? I know someone, the most lovely person, who has done this to herself and her speech is affected. She’s developed a kind of lisp because her lips are so grotesquely over sized and huge. I’ve noticed loads of celebrities have had it done too. It is simply grotesque !

I've never - had my nails done, had any waxing, had eyebrows done(wish I had some, but I pencil the on ), been for a massage. I hate going to the hairdresser. I have to, when it needs cutting (every 3 or 4 months) but I colour it myself. I use Simple moisturiser, soap and cleanser. I don't wear perfume or jewellery (allergies) but I do wear make-up and will continue to by my Maybelline products.

I’ve never had any beauty treatments at all and my full amount of beauty expenditure comes to £25 every five weeks for a cut and blow dry
It’s a first world problem and I really think people need to get their priorities right

I’d better stop. Everything is going wrong. Meant to type that my eyebrows are ‘a good shape’.

Sorry, that was a mistake.

When I was ten an old lady asked me if my
Motherplucked my eyebrows. As if!

I spend very little. Haircut every six to eight weeks, a little blusher and lipstick if I’m m going out or having visitors. Not expensive makes. I used to use a light foundation but I don’t now. My
eyelashes are naturally dark, and my dark eyebrows
are a good without attention, when I
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I've never been "high maintenance" so thankfully it's beauty treatments etc I won't have to budget for or go without. I have my hair cut every six weeks, buy No7 makeup as and when items run out, don't care about perfume, manicures etc.

I guess that we all have our extravagances :

Mine has to be plants and books !

I'm so glad that my friend didn't persuade me to have my hair cut short .
She's Turkish and looked natural and beautiful with long dark hair .
Now it's cropped off very short and dyed blond .
It's frizzy and gingery
It looks terrible .
I also think that the cuts are very badly done .
She pays about £200 to have it cut ,coloured and straightened regularly .

I wouldn't dream of saying what a waste of money !

I dye my hair
,use conditioning packs and trim it myself .
Maybe it would look nicer cut properly .

I used to have my nails done . I really loved them !
I don't anymore .
I use Essie Love ,Treat and Colour and keep them very short .

I buy cheap skin creams -Nivea is great .
The most important thing that you put on your skin is sun block before you go out .

Take your make up off carefully . I use baby lotion .
Give your face a gentle massage .

I've long since gone for the natural look !

In the days when I went to the hairdressers I heard women saying 'See you on [three or so days later]'. They had their hair done a least a couple of times a week. I wondered during lockdown how they were managing to wash their own hair! Probably not the kind to feel the pinch nowadays though.

LtEve

I shall just have to do an extra day's overtime if it comes to it to have my hair coloured . I have my nails done about 3 times a year, never acrylics and always short, eyelashes tinted, eyebrow, leg and underarm wax every 3 months plus a massage every now and again. My beautician and hairdresser have become friends and I know they will need the custom so I'll keep going as long as possible.
I buy 2nd hand clothes from ebay and don't wear much makeup but I enjoy treatments.

Why shouldn't you enjoy treatments?
I bet you haven't got a second home or apartment, and spend a lot on very expensive meals and holidays. If you do a day's overtime to have your hair coloured and make yourself feel good why not. It's you that is doing the extra work.Your already budgeting for your treats. Good on you.
If we were men would we be thinking better not have as many pints or go to the football/rugby matches as much? Or drool over the latest model car, cancel the latest wine.
Gone for good are the days when women got their allowance out of the pay-packet thank goodness and the rest went down the mens throat. I knew a family where budgeting meant the man got the meat and the wife and children the gravy and that was only in the 50's.
If you look and feel good then it's to the benefit of your family.

If this gets deleted I know someone is doing it on perpoise. What I said yesterday was non controversial and if an everyday idiom is taken as offensive then it's not worth posting.

I haven’t been to an hairdressers for more than sixty years and use hardly any makeup. Have to use moisteriser because of dry skin but find the cheaper kinds as good as the more expensive.
When we were living mainly in Spain for months, women on holiday for a couple of weeks would say that they couldn’t do that because they would miss their hairdresser!
I know a young woman who is saving up to buy a house but spends an excessive amount on hair extensions, make up and nails etc. As well as meals out.

If there is one thing life has taught me it is that it is nearly impossible to predict what people will mangage to afford, even when times are hard.

So many factors play a part. The size of any one person's income obviously, but far more important, it the importance they place on the thing in question.

So basically, if beauty treatments mean a lot to a person, I imagine she will continue to have them and stint herself on something else.

As long as people are spending their own money, what they spend it on is not really any business of mine.

Some people may revert to a more natural look, others will find a way of keeping up their beauty treatments.

The people I feel sorry for are those who will not be able to afford to heat their homes properly , or feed their families well.

ps saves on hairdressing bills too!

Caro57

Starve or freeze………?

I've just had my hair chopped and am feeling the cold!

If you want to stay warm and save on heating, grow your hair.

Starve or freeze………?

I thought you were referring to young people and all the high maintenance treatments now regarded as essential. I have wondered for ages how peoples can afford them all. I live in an area with a fair amount of poverty yet I see the nail bars, beauty salons very busy. I bet having to cut back and stop the treatments will cause mental health issues for quite a number.

My hair has been natural since 2015 and I am keepng it that way despite the last family wedding coming up in April. (Last of my mum's 10 grandchildren, and her oldest great grandchild is only 11, so no more weddings for a while !)

Don't do anything to eyebrows.

Tweezer the odd hair out of my chin every so often.

Nails I cut myself except for right hand which I have to file but I use up so many emery boards!
Someone mentioned nails every 4 weeks, well I have to do mine every 10 days because they grow so quickly!

My hair grows so quickly too but my hairdresser daughter trims that for me, I recently donated 16 inches ( 40 cm) to The Princess Trust but am defintely keeping it short now.

Have not worn make up since my mum's 90th birthday party ( Jan 2020 ) and not since the 2015 wedding before that. Might wear some mascara for this wedding coming up.

What you've never had you never miss. I've never had a beauty treatment, a nail treatment, a pedicure etc. Just a cut & blow dry every six weeks and the use of lots of moisturiser as I have very dry skin. I don't know what most of the treatments involve these days. A local beautician advertises "microblading". No idea but it sounds horrendous.
I expect most of us will be faced with cutting back on luxuries as inflation continues to rise, though ideas of non-essentials will differ. Luxuries for me are good-quality dark chocolate and holidays/foreign travel - the latter much missed in the last two years.

I learnt how to thread and wax in lockdown. I do my own facials as I make my own facepack once a week.

I do facial yoga and have for years. Zero cost and no recovery. This it to help the skin elasticity.

I use a prescription tretinoin for the skin which is £20 every 6 weeks. Because of that I have to take care with skin products as they have to be natural.

I use the CeraVe range from boots. My hair as a Leo is my pride and joy. I will not give up 8 weekly visits to the hairdressers for trim and root colour. I also use their pro shampoo, condotioner and treatment.

I have a budget for my monthly beauty and stick to it. I don't overshop with clothing and tend to prefer more quality than quantity. Again, I have a clothing budget.

I don't spend loads on makeup either. That to say means I have quality makeup but one of each item I use. I don't buy extra foundation for example as I use each item before buying another

So no change with me as its all budgeted for

In our town we seem to get a new eaterie/coffee shop opening every other week. With so many people apparently using food banks it amazes me how these places keep going.

The problem is that many esp. younger women have grown up thinking these treatments are essential. They all want to look the same with those awful fat lips and plumped up Botox skin. It always looks fake but they don't seem to realise. I do hope there is a move towards more natural faces, then we can see what people actually look like. At the moment they all look the same to me, like a cartoon version of a human face.

I am sick to death of the artificial look on women whether they are aged 15 or 80.

But each to their own as they say
I think the next big thing could be false noses then people could get the *full set*?
The one I’ve really never understood anyway is the lip thing …do women really want to resemble a sex doll?