HOW MUCH DO YOU TIP YOUR HAIRDRESSER?

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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 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 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).

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. 😒

Volunteer77

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?

Depends where you live and the level /seniority of the stylist?
Mine is £138 every 6 weeks for cut, half head colour /highlights. I have been going to this Hair group for about 25 years, and get a loyalty discount.
I give her £5 as tip.

I hate, hate, hate the card reader system now where a tip is suggested.
It usually starts at twelve and a half per cent going up to 20.
Sheer cheek is my opinion.

I don’t tip mine

I have my hair cut and blow dried at home, I wash it before using my shampoo and hot water and she blow dries it using my electricity. She’s with me for about 45 minutes and asks me to pay cash £40 . She also had a number of us in the same close vicinity. So no I don’t tip I think she earns enough tax free !

£55, home hairdresser, cut and high lights, every 7 weeks. I make coffee and snack and give £5 tip plus extra £10 at Christmas. She is very good.

I tip my hairdresser £5 for a cut £10 for cut and colour. He is lovely, does my hair exactly as I want it and makes me free coffee. I also give him a bottle of wine at Xmas

Grannytomany

I’ve never tipped the hairdresser and can’t understand why people do this. It’s their job and they set the price so why should customers pay more?

I don’t routinely tip the window cleaner, gardener, cleaner or podiatrist so why is hairdressing special?

You are absolutely right! BUT……my problem is that my hairdresser is the salon owner. I have been going to her for about 25 years and have always tipped. Now I understand I shouldn’t have.
My question is, how on earth can I stop now after all these years?

10% always.