Presents for Hairdressers?

I usually put £5 in with her Christmas card. A cut and blow dry is £25 at my hairdressers, I have been going there about 9 years and consider hairdressing as a more personal service than some of the jobs that people do. Having your hair done is something that you choose to do. I go every six weeks and also leave a small tip.

I don't tip full stop. They get paid to do a job just like every other person.

Am not aware of the expectation of providing special Xmas gifts to hairdressers here in Oz unless you felt especially close to them for some reason. Is this a special UK thing? As others have noted this is a business transaction, you are paying for a service so why feel an obligation to offer presents at Xmas? Presumably you don't feel that same obligation to the myriad of other businsses who provide services to you during the year? I must admit I find this quite puzzling.

With both son as a barber and daughter as a hairdresser, I would say just tip them. Also if you can pay by cash, so they get it in there hand.

I just give my normal tip at Christmas.
Any other ex-teachers on here? I used to feel embarrassed by pupils giving me presents at Christmas. I really don't think it's necessary for parents without much money to feel obliged to buy a present for a teacher just for doing his/her job. Teachers are paid relatively well compared to most parents in my area.
I used to find it made it awkward for the majority of pupils who didn't bring a present. A home made card was lovely but anything more was unnecessary.

If you don't want to spend too much how about a luxurious jar of hand cream. My hairdresser is always commenting on how her hands suffer with the chemicals etc.

I never used to tip my previous hairdresser through the year as it was his own salon and apparently the etiquette is not to tip the proprietor. But I gave him champagne at Christmas. He’s retired now and so I go to my partner’s hairdresser in Central London - oh so flash. Apparently the usual charge for a cut and blow dry by this guy, because of his status in the salon is (deep breath) £185. But for me - because he’s know my partner a long time - £68. I don’t tip him - not yet sure what I’ll do at Christmas - but I give a fiver to the person who washes my hair and gives a wonderful head massage. My mother would have had a fit if she’d known these figures.

I give a slightly large tip

Our hairdresser comes to the house and we have been using her for 15 years so she has become a friend. Her prices are very reasonable and she does my hair and my husbands.

I give her the odd small treat through the year but always give her a good Christmas gift. Her prices dont seem to have increased for years and she does a good job, we think a lot of her and like to treat her.

Guess it depends how often you go and whether they cut at home.

If occasional trips then I wouldn’t give anything extra as I pay enough for the appt (nearly £100 for cut and colour) and they are doing their job.

If it’s a home job every week (eg shampoo and set with hair cut one a month and coloured every 3 etc). Then a nice bottle of wine / chocolates or book perhaps

It’s entirely up to you (and whether they are a really good hairdresser too!)

I usually knit a small Christmas stocking for my hairdresser and fill it with her favourite chocs, my husband has a home hairdresser and we usually buy her a poinsettia plant.

I may have to go and lie down in a darkened room after reading this thread

£185 for a hair do?

I put £10 in a Christmas card. I don't tip anyone else. My hairdresser has put herself out and gone beyond the call of duty for me so I want to show my appreciation.

Oh dear another thing to dread when we return to the UK.
£125? I pay €25 here for wash cut and blowdry - and she's an expert .

It depends where you live Fennel although we live in the sticks and its nearly £40!

Once you start something you have to keep it up.
Where will it end?
You pay for a service and also tip. That should be enough.

My goodness! I give about £5 tip to hairdresser at Christmas (and £4 a cut usually = 10%. ). We also give £5 to postman, milk man and newspaper man. Dustmen get a 4 pack of beer to share. That's it.

I dont really agree with tipping but it seems to be the done thing. I dont give presents to anyone except family - there are more than enough to buy as it is!

I used to give mine a card with £10 in but now I tip each time. But sometimes if she hasn’t change I don’t pay the full amount so I think it all evens out. I have “difficult” hair so am very grateful to her!

bluebelle your hairdresser is not earning £60 an hour.
She is grossing £60 an hour if she’s fully booked. She’s probably not fully booked, and she grosses nothing when people cancel at the last minute or forget their appointment.
If she works in someone else’s salon at least half of what she grosses will be kept by the salon owner to cover overheads.
If she works for herself, out of that £60, if she managed to gross it, she has to pay tax, national insurance, fund her own holidays, sick pay and pension.
I think you’re actually exploiting her.
Just for the record, I’m in the same league as norah who has been the butt of the usual string of embittered comments that arise on this sort of thread.
I spend £90 getting my hair coloured, cut and blow dried. But I only go every 6-8 weeks, so it works out about the same.
Whose business is it of any of you what Norah and I spend our own money on?
I give my hairdresser a double tip at Christmas-£20. I have no idea if he drinks, eats chocolates or takes bubble baths.

I live in London so hair cut/colour is expensive, but I still buy a small gift ( wine , flowers , candle) for my hairdresser. I buy the same for my nail technician ( ducking REALLY low beneath the parapet now!! )

Both DH and myself have been going to the same salon for a number of years and all the staff have got to know us (to the extent that they bought our daughter a card and bottle of champagne when she got married). We always put some money in a Christmas card with a note that it is a contribution to their christmas meal. DH puts in £30 and they usually put it towards wine etc for their meal.

I always buy mine a gift. It used to be wine or chocolates but I got bored with that so for quite some time now I have bought or made her something Christmas related. For instance a Christmas worktop saver, Christmas throw, even Christmas doormat one year! She has a young daughter and apparently they really look forward to seeing what I have come up with each year.

I always tip the paper boy, as our delivery charges are ridiculously low...80p a week for 7 day delivery, so room to give him extra.
I'd like to tip rubbish men, but dont know how!
And then Ocado delivery drivers...always helpful, but always different. Perhaps an extra contribution to the food bank scheme?

I bought my cleaner a small Christmas present for her first Christmas with me. The following year she gave me one as well, which I wasn't expecting her to do. The 3rd year I said let's just exchange cards, no presents, but I had 2 new kittens and she surprised me by buying toys for them at Christmas. The 4th Christmas I bought a toy for her dog as I felt obliged, but she didn't buy anything. The 5th Christmas I didn't buy anything because I thought - hoped - that we were stopping buying presents, but she unexpectedly bought toys again for my cats, but by the 6th Christmas she had got 2 more dogs, totalling 3 in all, so I ended up buying a toy for each of the 3 dogs. She bought nothing, so I am hoping that that is the end of it as it is getting ridiculous ..... no more presents I hope. Money is tight for me plus I'd rather not have the hassle.

I take a tub of chocolates (e.g. Quality Street) for all the girls in the salon. It’s a very friendly group and I have been going there for about 6-years. I never did this at previous salons. I may be a bit mean, as I don’t tip the bin men, the window cleaner or the dog groomer. Everything costs so much these days anyway! I do give a £5 to the Post Man as I know that is a very tough job and yet he takes the time to be friendly.