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How much do you spend on hair and nails?

192 replies

Holyjolly · 30/11/2024 11:08

I am thinking of getting highlights done and in the past, only ever got haircut for something like £20-30. I have started to get grey hairs now so need to look at more options for hair care.
I am also intrigued by my colleague's getting beautiful nails done and tempted to get mine done.
I haven't had much hairs or nails done in the past and intrigued what I should budget for each month to get my hair and nails done?
What are your usual regular spend on hair and nails?

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coffeesaveslives · 30/11/2024 17:31

I don't do anything with my nails except cut them - I work outdoors with animals so it would be a colossal waste of time and money.

Hair products cost me about £10 a month and I cut it myself.

curlycurlymoo · 30/11/2024 17:29

£33 on nails every 3 weeks. Hair done every 12 weeks and £150

SilverBlueRabbit · 30/11/2024 17:28

I get my hair cut once a year in the summer just before a major event in our calendar. It's about £90. Nails never, though occasionally I buy a polish.

As you can probably tell- I am not that kempt. But now I am 50 I am trying harder. Our local tech college does cut and colours for £14 and I am going to try that out. They do eyebrow shaping for £1.

user50and · 30/11/2024 17:26

£27 every 3 weeks on gel nails. £110 for roots, cut and blow dry every 9 weeks.

daliesque · 30/11/2024 17:25

Hair about £200 every couple of months for a cut and colour. Nails - nothing as I'm useless with manicures and not able to have painted nails at work anyway. In my dreams it would be once a week.

momofonex · 30/11/2024 17:15

£40 nails per month. £180 hair every 2-3 months

genesis92 · 30/11/2024 17:14

It baffles me how there is supposed to be a cost of living crisis, but my local nail place has queue of people waiting to get their nails done from the moment they open to the moment they close. It flabbergasts me every time

Plenty of people seem to have the money to spend £30+ on their nails every 3 weeks!

Changeyourfuckingcar · 30/11/2024 17:07

About £150 every six-nine months for balayage, nothing on my nails.
Used to be £150 every three months for balayage and about £30 every three weeks for my nails… then I had a kid 🤣

unclebuck · 30/11/2024 17:01

I've never had my nails done in my life.
Hair £1200 a year - it's ruinous but it's my whole look 😂

okydokethen · 30/11/2024 16:53

BIAB nails every three weeks -£40
Hair cut probably five or six times a year at £35 - just basic long bob, no dye (embracing grey)
Twice a year I like to straighten my hair with a Brazilian blow dry and this costs £120

Sheknowsaboutme · 30/11/2024 16:52

Curly cut every 6 months. £60

Nails every 3 weeks. £35.

i do my own brows, lip/chin wax. And colour my own hair.

Isis1981uk · 30/11/2024 16:49

I'm very low maintenance, so I spend nothing on my nails, and £10 every 6 weeks to dye my roots! Plus shampoo/conditioner, £2/3 each time they run out!

AlpacaMittens · 30/11/2024 16:48

£60 a year on hair for my annual haircut
I hate going to the hairdressers

No nails (I have nails, I just don't do anything to them)

I used to get waxed but after a few very, very poor experiences I have started doing it at home (three times a year or something)

MsCactus · 30/11/2024 16:47

Shocked by how low these prices are! I live in London and every haircut seems to be £70+

Saying that, I have waist length hair that I rarely cut. I oil and take care of my lengths, then just cut it myself an inch or so a couple of times a year. I just felt the amount hairdressers were charging was a rip off.

I also don't do nails - too high maintenance for me when it starts chipping and looking rubbish.

If I was grey, I'd buy a dye at home kit and do that every month or couple of months to keep on top of it.

GreenMarigold · 30/11/2024 16:41

Hair cut £50 every 3-4 months. Never had my nails done.

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 30/11/2024 16:25

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KimberleyClark · 30/11/2024 16:21

Hair, £140 every six weeks for cut and colour.

Nails, nothing.

WorkCleanRepeat · 30/11/2024 16:21

Hair £80 every 6 weeks.

Up until recently I spent £25 every 3 weeks on my nails but I've started throwing that money in a jar and doing them myself because it's tricky finding the time to go that regularly.

riverislandjeans · 30/11/2024 16:20

£70 on hair every 6-8 weeks and £30 on nails every 4 weeks

CharlotteStreetW1 · 30/11/2024 16:20

inquisitiveinga · 30/11/2024 11:19

Personally, I think nails are a waste of time, money and I don't understand the appeal (especially when you have kids and pets... I can't help but think of all the muck that gets under them that you can't see!). If anyone does get them done every few weeks, how on earth do you find the time for it?! I'm genuinely intruiged. I'd much rather put £30 every 3 weeks towards a mini break... I've worked out that it's around £550 a year! Anyway, I digress...

Hair, once a year and around £120 (roots, style, sometimes an all over colour change).

Each to their own?

Anyway, haircut every six weeks £50 (I don't colour it).

Toes file and polish and eyebrow wax every couple of months = £30.

I do my own fingernails once a week - just normal polish - because I enjoy it and it carves out another hour of me-time at the weekend.

TwigletsAndRadishes · 30/11/2024 16:17

I pay around £50-60 for a cut and blow dry but I only go about twice a year. Don't colour my hair. I have pedicures about three times a year in the warmer months, £40. Very rarely have manicures, but might occasionally get a gel manicure with plain polish (on quite short nails) for a special occasion. I can't have gel on for months on end because it wrecks my nails underneath and makes them so weak and thin that when I get the gel removed it takes months for the nails to recover.

I used to get my eyebrows threaded about three times a year, but since I've been menopausal there has been no need. I should probably look at micro-blading instead now.

No fillers or botox. I have dabbled with both, but not had any for years now.

I would never have acrylics or any sort of nail art. I just don't like them, but apart from anything else it seems like a ridiculous extravagance and huge time commitment to keep that up long term.

WaltzingWaters · 30/11/2024 16:17

£15 on hair every 4 months. Nothing on nails.

emmetgirl · 30/11/2024 16:10

£35 on nails every 3 weeks.
Hair about £120 every six weeks
I don't drink or smoke so don't feel bad about it at all!

TwigletsAndRadishes · 30/11/2024 16:05

WorkShmork · 30/11/2024 11:21

I spend £50 getting my hair cut every 6 weeks, but I might decrease the frequency as it grows longer.

I don't get my nails done - I'd be worried about modern slavey as nail bars are mentioned in my work's training course about this, and also about hygiene and exposure to chemicals. I sometimes see adverts on FB, and the person's nail bed and cuticles look sore as well. Yeah, it's not for me 😄.

It's easy enough to avoid modern slavery in nail bars. Just pick one that isn't staffed entirely by Chinese or Vietnamese people and only takes cash. If it is, then that's a big fat klaxon. It's not difficult to find small, local beauty salons that are British owned and British staffed. You'll pay a bit more though.

Cyclingmummy1 · 30/11/2024 16:01

£120 every 8 weeks for my hair. It might be slightly more or less depending on the colour, and it might be 9 weeks.

Nothing on my nails, I tend not to bother, but my SIL has a salon if I did. My mum used to have hers done every 2-3 weeks - because she could 😆