HOW MUCH DO YOU TIP YOUR HAIRDRESSER?

My cut is around £45, I book online and pay in advance, so take a fiver for a tip. Often have to stop and buy something, to change a 10 or a 20. Lucky there’s a Sainsbury’s Local on the way, so I can always get a couple of bananas. 😒

I give my girl £5 and £20 at Christmas. Mine is slightly different as it is a hair system and she does wonders for me. The salon is a life saver (literally).

I have a home hairdresser, the same one for about 20 years.
She cuts and blows ,it is very short and it is currently £22.
I always give her £25 and £20 extra at Christmas.
Salon is at least £50,we are not in an expensive area.

I have tried to tip my hairdresser but she will not accept it. She is quite adamant about it. It is her own small salon, so I accept her decision. I try to make up for it with different things, this week I sponsored her walk for the a Cancer Charity and bought a small gift for new grandchild. She is a really good hairdresser and an excellent listener to everybody's woes, which all good hairdressers excel at being

I pay £15 and give her £1 but I'm starting to feel embarrassed as she is the owner. Should I tip at all or give her more?

!!! Blimey you re all loaded
£118 every 6 weeks and I pay £18 every five weeks

Reading this i feel that I under tip I have a cut and colour every 6 weeks costing £115. I have short hair and I notice that when I come to pay the card reader first asks how much i want to tip in amounts of £10 upwards. I have always given her £5. I also always have a conditioner treatment. Am I being ripped off?

I have a wet cut for £30 & don’t tip each visit, however I give a cash gift at Xmas which is equivalent to about 10% of my annual cost. My hairdresser (not the owner) always seems happy with that.

I like a round number, so I’d been giving my hairdresser a generous £5 when the charge was £40/45/50 but not so generous when it gradually rose to £67. However, it was in a L’Oreal Salon, so my stylist would’ve been on a fixed wage.
When she retired, I’m now at a local salon - only £32, so I round it up to £35, as my new stylist is the salon owner.

Greenfinch

I only ever have a dry cut which costs £18 and so I give her £2 tip.

Similar.
Mine says that will be 200 pound.
So I slap down a 20pound note and say will that do.
He smiles and accepts it.
I then fish around and try to find 5pound note and put that on the counter. To support his charity.
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He is a very nice man

I agree, hairdressers are expensive, so on a limited budget I can’t really justify tipping as well

BlueBelle

£50!!!! dogsmother for a pixie cut That’s what I have for £18
Where on earth do you live Buckingham Palaces???

I’ve just come back to this and no BB this is the joy of CI life prices that can match inner London. It’s why dear MrD prefers me to put the clippers over his hair as he objects to paying for his.

Gin

Gosh some of you have good deals. I have my haircut in a rural market town, a nice place but nothing special and for a wash, trim and blow-dry it is £50. The same stylist has cut my hair for 25 years and I tip her a fiver so I do not go very frequently as I could not afford it. I am confused as to why there is such a wide variation in prices across the country. My salon is owned by two Italian cousins, it is not a chain.

Reassuring to hear someone else say they're paying such an expensive pricing level and thinking "Maybe that's why - ie rural market town". I guess places like that have less (decent level) competition??? I know I panicked as to where I was going to get the type of hairdresser I was used to from when I moved here and soon afterwards heard two local women chatting on a bus and woman no. 2 was complimenting woman no. 1 for what looked a lot like "home haircut and then dragged through a hedge backwards" hair that woman no. 1 had and I was quietly sitting there thinking "What the heck?!!!".

I did expect cheaper than normal prices here (ie moving from a nice small city to here) - and one can get those price levels - but the people I've chosen for everything all charge more than I had to pay in my previous city (I guess because they are aware there aren't very many decent standard ones to choose from in a location like this?). My dentist is also exorbitant and my plumber is dearer than I'm used to as well.

Samsara1

I have always given £5 and £10 at Christmas but I have a new much more expensive hairdresser and I suppose I should raise it. The hairdo is £130 a month colour and cut- takes two and a half hours. He always seems pleased with the fiver.

I bet he’s pleased. You are a very good and generous customer.

I don't tend to tip. It would certainly put me off doing so anyway - given that my hairdresser charges £55 - and that's just for a cut and blowdry!!!! That - when I'm not in London - this is remote West Wales!

I never tip. It’s really expensive these days, why would you tip?

I have always given £5 and £10 at Christmas but I have a new much more expensive hairdresser and I suppose I should raise it. The hairdo is £130 a month colour and cut- takes two and a half hours. He always seems pleased with the fiver.

10% and £2 for the shampooist, if the hairdresser subcontracts the hair washing, so to speak.

kittylester

I don't she's a friend of the family - she comes for supper.

Same here. She’s my friend and lives next door. No money changes hand. We just do things for each other.

Now that there is a minimum wage I have stopped tipping, every now and then i give five pounds.

I have short hair. A wash and cut every 6 weeks or so costs £21 a time at a walk-in salon. I pay £25 cash and give the £4 change to whoever has cut my hair.
Love the convenience of being able just to walk-in, though I am careful to arrive at a quiet time.

I only give my hairdresser what I happen to have in my purse - sometimes £2 or £5. A wash, cut and blow dry costs me £58! More expensive when I have highlights once a year.

I don't tip, it's expensive enough though I did give something each Christmas.

Sorry should have said that is a Wash, cut and blow dry for £18

£50!!!! dogsmother for a pixie cut That’s what I have for £18
Where on earth do you live Buckingham Palaces???