To ask how much you pay for beauty services like your nails, hair, etc?

ChattyChai · 2025-07-17T12:48:00+00:00

I’m 39, turning 40 at the end of the year. My husband thinks I’m being ridiculous with what I spend, but we can afford it comfortably and it makes me feel good. I spend £42 every 3-5 weeks on nails, and every 3 months or so an extra £15 to get my eyebrows waxed and tinted. i spend £140 every two months on getting my hair extensions moved up, and then every 4 months an extra £77 to get my roots done. he thinks this is silly money and an extra £110 a month we could be saving, but I work, it’s my only real splurge each month and it makes me feel great. Am I spending too much? How much do you spend?

mrssunshinexxx · 21/07/2025 19:37

biab £32 a month
hair cut £40 every 4ish months
PH formula resurfacing facial plus led mask ££100 bi monthly
£160 filler once a year
£190 Botox once a year
favial or massage once every 6 months
pedi couple times a year

Anyonecanachieve · 21/07/2025 19:21

DappledThings · 17/07/2025 13:53

Never had my nails, brows or anything else like that done. Haircut is about £50 and I try to go about 3 times a year but I hate it so it's usually only twice a year max.

But there's a huge spectrum of what anyone choses to spend money on in this area. None of which will help you because you could find 100 women who spend 5 times as much as you a month and 100 who spend zero.

This I’m not paying a tax to have nails, eye brows etc done as men don’t!

namechangeGOT · 21/07/2025 19:20

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 17:32

I'm stating a fact and that link has already been posted on Mumsnet, so it's hardly a problem.
Too much of anything can be bad. Too much tanning, too many vitamins, too many chemical peels etc.

…. Too much sanctimonious shite.

WigglywagglyWanda · 21/07/2025 18:30

Has OP come back?

In the melee of criticism for folk spending their dosh on whatever they want, its easy to miss that OPs partner thinks it's too much and has said so. I think OP was putting it out there just to see what other folk thought reasonable, and the answer is that everyone is different, everyone spends money on 'stuff'.

Some like spending it on cruises, holidays, motorbikes or model railways. So long as they can afford it and its not causing financial problems, it's their perogative.

Op, he says its silly money. You say you can afford it and it makes you feel good, just smile brightly and tell him so. Does he have hobbies, foibles or interests he spends dosh on?

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 17:48

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 17:43

Last time it was dental stuff and a lipstick. Our company does hardware installations for Boots and their offices. We get vouchers from there head office a few times a year.

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@LoopyLoo1991

A lipstick?!? How utterly frivolous! Why did you do that?? You could have spent that money on essentials like toothpaste, shower gel, paracetamol , not something that only YOU could benefit from for your own superficial purposes! What about your faaaaamily?? Your kids didn’t ask to be born!

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 17:43

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 17:37

@LoopyLoo1991

meh, I’ll take that risk 🤷‍♀️

What did you spend your Boots vouchers on?

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Last time it was dental stuff and a lipstick. Our company does hardware installations for Boots and their offices. We get vouchers from there head office a few times a year.

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 17:37

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 13:47

Well we'd best hope you don't get stuck in financial dire straits and be forced to give up your makeup and beauty treatments then. Like that stupid, stupid woman on Jeremey Kyle who was spending 30% of family income on make-up etc but wasn't paying the rent. Her kids weren't happy about having to eat basic meals either and her own mother telling her no amount of make-up would make her less self obsessed.

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@LoopyLoo1991

meh, I’ll take that risk 🤷‍♀️

What did you spend your Boots vouchers on?

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 17:32

I'm stating a fact and that link has already been posted on Mumsnet, so it's hardly a problem.
Too much of anything can be bad. Too much tanning, too many vitamins, too many chemical peels etc.

WigglywagglyWanda · 21/07/2025 17:21

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DiscoNights · 21/07/2025 15:37

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 13:47

Well we'd best hope you don't get stuck in financial dire straits and be forced to give up your makeup and beauty treatments then. Like that stupid, stupid woman on Jeremey Kyle who was spending 30% of family income on make-up etc but wasn't paying the rent. Her kids weren't happy about having to eat basic meals either and her own mother telling her no amount of make-up would make her less self obsessed.

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Good Lord 😮

Glitchymn1 · 21/07/2025 15:00

I go to the hairdresser twice a year, I get gel toes two/three times a year.
It’s the time for me, if someone came to my house and did it all in an hour I’d think about it… maybe. I detest sitting there waiting…. and waiting.
I used to go once a month and do the lot, one time I was there about five hours. That was it.

Pigmum86 · 21/07/2025 14:43

£42 on nails every 3 weeks
£140 on extensions refit and roots every 6 weeks

i used to bite my nails for years so its my treat to myself and i like that people admire them. I’ve also now got the hair of my dreams thanks to extensions so it’s worth it in my opinion!

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Nicebush · 21/07/2025 14:18

Hair £20, 2-3 times per year.
Nails - occasional polish at home. Approx. £5/year.
Massage £45, 1-2 time per month.

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WigglywagglyWanda · 21/07/2025 14:12

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 14:08

'You couldn't sound more condescending if you tried.'

Good. I hope I made my point .

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Sorry to disappoint you, but you hoped in vain.

You did manage to fit the mumsnet trope of the head tilt and tinkly laugh though, so well done on that.

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 14:08

WigglywagglyWanda · 21/07/2025 14:00

You couldn't sound more condescending if you tried.

There you are virtue signalling that you spent your Boots vouchers on 'sensible' things, that "men get frustrated" bloody Nora these days we don't live our lives for men.

Folk spend their hard earned cash on all sorts of things, cars, paintings, designer clothes, jewellery...... if they want to spend some of it on titivating themselves up because they like it then that's their choice.

Jesus .... you can rest easy my four children got their lunch money every day in spite of my liking for a bit of good grooming, and were properly fed watered and cared for, as i earned enough to do everything comfortably....y'know now relying on "men" for self worth.

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'You couldn't sound more condescending if you tried.'

Good. I hope I made my point .

WigglywagglyWanda · 21/07/2025 14:00

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 13:47

Well we'd best hope you don't get stuck in financial dire straits and be forced to give up your makeup and beauty treatments then. Like that stupid, stupid woman on Jeremey Kyle who was spending 30% of family income on make-up etc but wasn't paying the rent. Her kids weren't happy about having to eat basic meals either and her own mother telling her no amount of make-up would make her less self obsessed.

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You couldn't sound more condescending if you tried.

There you are virtue signalling that you spent your Boots vouchers on 'sensible' things, that "men get frustrated" bloody Nora these days we don't live our lives for men.

Folk spend their hard earned cash on all sorts of things, cars, paintings, designer clothes, jewellery...... if they want to spend some of it on titivating themselves up because they like it then that's their choice.

Jesus .... you can rest easy my four children got their lunch money every day in spite of my liking for a bit of good grooming, and were properly fed watered and cared for, as i earned enough to do everything comfortably....y'know now relying on "men" for self worth.

LoopyLoo1991 · 21/07/2025 13:47

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 12:15

@LoopyLoo1991

i don’t care what men think. I wear make up , get my hair done etc for me, not for men.

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Well we'd best hope you don't get stuck in financial dire straits and be forced to give up your makeup and beauty treatments then. Like that stupid, stupid woman on Jeremey Kyle who was spending 30% of family income on make-up etc but wasn't paying the rent. Her kids weren't happy about having to eat basic meals either and her own mother telling her no amount of make-up would make her less self obsessed.

WigglywagglyWanda · 21/07/2025 13:27

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 12:15

@LoopyLoo1991

i don’t care what men think. I wear make up , get my hair done etc for me, not for men.

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Yeh me too.

I like doing it, I like the way I look when I've done it and I actually couldn't give a fiddlers fuck whether "men get frustrated" or not.😄

Poor men eh

Didimum · 21/07/2025 12:49

I get my haircut every 6 months – about £50. I have really dark brows and eyelashes so nothing there. Hate waxing so don't do that, I just shave and trim. So that's it.

I spent plenty elsewhere though!

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 12:25

Widower2014 · 20/07/2025 20:55

And if your husband spent the same amount on stuff??

Or worse, he lost his job but the savings have gone on your nails and hair???

@Widower2014

by that way of thinking, no one would ever spend money on anything not essential ‘just in case…’

…which is a bit of a miserable way to live.

Cherrytree86 · 21/07/2025 12:15

LoopyLoo1991 · 20/07/2025 20:36

To quote Shakespeare 'Vanity thy name is woman'. I probably spend £80 a year on haircuts and £50-£70 on makeup total. Been given vouchers for Boots as presents which I've put to good use from my company.
None my family are very into beauty stuff, barring my eldest half-sister who slaps it on for occasional night out.
And it all gets washed off or out in the end. No wonder men get frustrated sometimes. So long as we smell nice, I doubt a majority of guys would care if we're fully tarted up or completely fresh faced! lol

@LoopyLoo1991

i don’t care what men think. I wear make up , get my hair done etc for me, not for men.

Firstshoes · 21/07/2025 07:18

Hair £80 every 8 weeks for root highlights, cut and blow dry. Nails £30 every 3 weeks. Myself and DH allocate ourselves the same amount of 'pocket money' each week and my hair and nails come from this so it's not affecting family finances in any way and I don't feel guilty.