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

DH pays for it as I’ve carried the children, the least he can do is pay for my nails and eyelashes. My nails are about £35 most of the time but for my birthday/Christmas they’re more as I get cute little designs on them. Lashes are £100 but I don’t get them done all the time, I take breaks because it’s better for your natural lashes. It’s more of a holiday treat or if I am going somewhere special. Nails and lashes are the only regular things though, I do my own eyebrows and my sister in law cuts/does my hair free in exchange for childcare.

This baby is my last baby, so once she is born I am going to look into a personal trainer and maybe loose skin removal (which I imagine will be expensive). I’m going to see how I feel on the lose skin removal though because I don’t love the idea of surgery, its a bit scary.

I get my hair cut every 6 weeks, €34.00 + tip. I stopped having highlights during the pandemic and haven't started again because I cba sitting in a salon for hours.
Do my own nails so all they cost is a new bottle of polish every once in a while.

I probably spend about a tenner a month all in on beauty and maybe 15 quid on clothes from charity shops.

But it doesn't really matter what I spend because my husband would never query on what I spent affordable free money on.

Only get my hair done every 8 - 12 weeks, highlights, wash, cut and blow dry, it has just gone up to £49.

Hair - £120 every 8 weeks. That's it, I won't invest in anything else!

Nails £40 per month

1x every 2 months full roots, cut & blow £80
In between full roots I have my part topped up and fringe trim for £10
Half head highlights once per year £95

1x month eyebrow and upper lip wax £16

It’s worth every penny in my opinion

Does he have no comparable personal spends?

I spend similar to you, and used to feel guilty but then totted up my DHs gym, contacts and private dental that I don't have and figured we're evens.

Hair about £70 every 5 weeks
Gel nails £35 every 3 weeks
Facials £85 a month
Gym/trainer/pilates £130 a month
Occasional massages usually in the winter.
I have no body hair to remove...all lasered 20 years ago.
Eyebrows are hidden under fringe
I'm retired and its all my money!

£60 for roots and £60 for haircut about every 4-6 months depending on how on it I am
£35 for leg and bikini wax usually before holidays
None of nails, none on eyebrows.

I do spend £60 every 6 weeks on a sports massage and have an expensive gym membership.

No wonder I look ropey, clearly need to up my game (and my spending!)

It’s all so subjective that what others spend is meaningless, but fwiw

£35 hair every eight weeks
£40 pedicure (not gels) monthly between June & October
£10 when I can be bothered on getting my lashes tinted
And I’m just about to start getting my eyebrows done, as my eyesight is so bad that even with a magnifying mirror I can’t see well enough to do my own any longer.

I spend about £45 every six weeks on hair. I was spending £30 every six weeks on electrolysis on lip and chin hair but it’s worked and I’m done now. I had it for a full two years.

I’m also done with Botox because I have some sort of resistance to it

All that’s left is nails and I’m between nail salons at the moment but that’s about £30 round here so I don’t think any of it has been extortionate

£42 twice a year on a wash and cut (don't bother getting it blow dried as I tend to air dry it myself). I really dislike getting my nails done, so I sometimes get some gel nail wraps at about a tenner a set to do at home. Don't get my brows or lashes done and I've let myself go grey. Most of my hair and beauty products are supermarket type brands.

But I do get a sports massage every six weeks or so at £50 a go and my gym membership is about £125 a month and I make sure I have a nice long sauna there at least once a week.

£50 haircut 4 times a year
£40 massage once a month
And that's it...

I do spend a lot of month on exercise classes though.

The only ' beauty treatment ' I get is my hair cut , I alternative between a cut & a cut /colour the following appointment . The timescale is probably 16 weeks or approx at no more than £90 so I'm a less than £25 a month gal .

I'm not into that kind of thing but don't ask me what I spend on art supplies and running paraphernalia. We all have our things don't we and so long as you can afford it your husband should keep shtum.

Nails and gel toes (summer only for toes) - about £50 every 3 to 4 weeks.

Hair - £75 every 8 weeks for highlights toner and cut
Botox - £180 every 6 months
Skin boosters - £240 for a course of 3 boosters (summer only)

Brows - £18 every 8 weeks for henna brows.

I honestly don't want to think of how much money I spend on skincare products on top of all that. I go for Korean skincare products as well as Elemis. I do look after my skin though and try to save money wherever I can.

Also, who made your husband God of all?

As one of my grandparents used to say, it’s no good being the richest person in the graveyard!

I do my own nails, pedicure, eyebrows.... Pay £22 for a dry cut, every 8 weeks.

Same here! I get a haircut about 4 times a year, but just couldn’t justify spending money (or time) to get nails etc done every few weeks. I dye my hair at home every few months as well, so I guess that’s another £15 or so.

It’ll be relative to the area you live in too.

For me (up north so comparatively cheap) -
• every 3 weeks builder gel nails £35

• every 6 weeks gel toes £20 ish
• every 2 weeks eyebrow wax and tint and lip wax £43
• every 4 weeks basic roots and cut to cover my copious and very obvious greys £70 ish

I’m 69 and had my nails done for the first time ever in June for DD’s wedding, I love them. They were re-done after four weeks (BIAB), probably three would be better if anyone but me was going to see them. It’s £34 and despite my extremely low pension income I’ll carry on until the novelty wears off as they delight me every time I look at them! Long term I won’t be able to justify it.

I have longish hair twisted up in a claw clip or ponytail and just lop bits of fringe off myself if it annoys me. Never had brows or lashes done and I don’t really like being touched, so facials and massages are a no-go.

My hair is about 120 every 6-8 weeks, nails about 60 a month.

Do you work op? Why does your husband think he can dictate what you do with your money?

£0 on beauty/brows/nails etc
£35 on hair once every 3 months

People take me as I am or not and none of my friends are into maintenance either. But then we all have an insanely expensive hobby/lifestyle ie horses.

Cut & highlights: £120 every 12 weeks
Nails: £8 on whatever the ‘new’ nail varnish colour is a couple of times a year
Tweakments: £0
Lashes: £0
Waxing: £0
Massage: £30 every 2 months, but it’s for DDog, not me