Tipping your hairdresser

Menopauselbitch

If you eat regularly at a restaurant and don’t tip you will be talked about by the staff. You will still get service but if you called a waiter at the same time a tipper called him guess which person he’d go to. Just saying

Yes, you are correct 👍🏻

Tipping makes me feel anxious.Unless the service is bad, we leave something in restaurants always.
Having a taxi transfer recently abroad, I gave DH 10% for a tip (she was helpful) & he refused because he didn't think it was enough.
So I gave her the tip & she was obviously pleased.

DH noticed. I think his attitude of v generous tips is patronising tbh. like the Lady Bountiful a previous poster mentioned. once when he'd caused a major upset for a coach tour, when we got off he shoved a handful of notes at the driver / rep, but didn't apologise. They were surprised, not pleased, so I told them to keep the tip but I made DH apologise to them for the hassle he'd caused. Which, to be fair, he did, but it was far harder for him than showering cash.
We're comfortably off, but not rolling in it btw.

I tip.

People doing something for me quite well receive a tip.

And quite likely a Christmas gift.

Menopauselbitch

If you eat regularly at a restaurant and don’t tip you will be talked about by the staff. You will still get service but if you called a waiter at the same time a tipper called him guess which person he’d go to. Just saying

Who cares !!

If you eat regularly at a restaurant and don’t tip you will be talked about by the staff. You will still get service but if you called a waiter at the same time a tipper called him guess which person he’d go to. Just saying

The girl who cuts my hair hasn’t been qualified for long, the cost of a cut and blow dry every 4 weeks is £28.50 and I give her £3 as a tip which is just over 10%, I give her £10 at Christmas.

"There’s only just been a thread all about tipping hairdressers
It’s just repeating it all over again and again"
Bluebelle,it is because some people are not on Gransnet alot, and they are not aware it has been discussed. I dont mind threads that have been done before, on some I just don't comment.
I do tip my hairdresser, and I am pleased to do so.

Hair dressers rely on tips
They dont expect them but they re more than happy to receive .. I know as I was married to a hairdresser

I agree with you there MayBee70 it does seem a bit unfair. I know we are paying for the skill, which I very much appreciate. I’m fortunate to have a lot of hair but my friend who has had alopecia in the past and now has extremely fine hair was charged £47 for a cut and blow dry. It would literally dry in two minutes so it’s not the time she’s paying for, more the experience of the stylist I imagine. Still, I think it should be less. I know my hairdresser charges one person more because she had so much hair. Should work both ways maybe!

We’re in a relatively expensive area - my cut and blow dry costs £45. I book online and pay in advance, so make sure I’ve got a fiver for a tip. Which usually means having to go and buy something with cash on the way, e.g. a couple of bananas in Sainsbury’s, so I have the wherewithal.

I don’t tip my hairdresser as she owns her own little salon adjacent to her house. My bill is usually between £120-£150. But I do give a Christmas gift - I’m liking the idea another GN had of the SpaceNK voucher. I’m American by birth - in the USA, an absolute minimum of either 10% or $10 would be expected (whichever is the highest) or there’d be an outcry in the salon!!

I never do

I don’t tip my hairdresser as he is the salon owner. I also don’t tip my colourist (same salon) until Christmas when I give her a Christmas ‘box’ which is more than a £5 tip per visit - usually £30.

I work part time in a shop for the minimum wage. I can spend hours with a customer getting them kitted out. I don’t expect a tip. My hair dresser earns more for an hour than I make in a day. So no I don’t and won’t tip.
This practice needs to stop and employers should pay a living wage.

I always tipped my hairdresser but have never felt comfortable tipping. I moved to another area and a new hairdresser and I decided the tipping should stop. I now just buy her a Christmas gift every year.

Giving someone a tip makes me feel like a ghastly Lady Bountiful. If I carried out work for another person I would never expect them to give me anything extra - the price for the work having been accepted. It seems you should not tip the owner of a salon, but then younger staff, hairdressers, waiters etc. are said to rely on tips. What a minefield - why do we not have a scale of charges that reflect a reasonable wage for the younger staff and not have this performance of pressing coins into the hand?

We have had the same person to cut or hair at home for about twenty years. I don’t tip her but give her a £50 Space NK voucher at Christmas. She has become more of a friend over the years, is very reliable and does a good job.

I agree I rarely tip

The only people I ever tip are hairdressers and then only if I intend to go back.

I did have a very tip expectant pizza delivery person once who I had to practically pull the box from.

I haven’t been to a hairdresser for years but the one I’ve always gone to used to charge me the same as all of her other clients even though I’ve hardly got any hair to cut. I’ve sat and watched her do dry trims on other clients that take ages but mine takes minutes. She used to have other people that worked for her that charged me less because I had so little hair. Even so I’ve always given her a small tip. I could do with a tidy up but do feel a bit aggrieved as to how much it will cost. She’s always wanted to cut my hair really short, but that would necessitate more frequent trims which I can’t really afford. I understand that she doesn’t want to set a precedent by charging me less but her colleagues, feeling a bit sorry for me, used to.

Shop assistants, medical staff, bus drivers to name but a few also have to work and bring up families but they don't get tips Samsara1

I give £2 to the girl who washes my hair. It’s cut and coloured by the owner who I don’t tip but I do put money in a card for him at Christmas.

At my hairdresser if one chooses to pay the tip online the company who facilitate this charge 5% for the service. I was caught once, but on subsequent occasions I have left a cash tip.

I have always tipped a hairdresser and always will U think. I did not ever tip a beautician. I don't really know why. My salon now has a system where you pay 50% of the treatment you book on line to secure the appointment and then the salon with you permission will take the balance. AFTER all that you get a review request inviting g you tip tip in three bands. I usually do the middle one. I'm not rich but I can afford hair and the occasional salon treatment. The hairdresser and the beautician are not rich either and they still have to work and bring up their children I don't. While I can do it to spread a bit of love around I will.

My feelings exactly BlueBelle people are in thrall to their hairdressers it seems.