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

Ooh what IPL machine do you use? I’d like one but I’m really struggling to decide which one/how much to spend!

I don't earn much so most beauty treatments are a luxury I don't prioritise. I'm pretty good at DIY though.

I bought a gel nail kit, plus some nice gel polishes for about £40 total. I've two teen girls so that's an immediate saving!

I also do DIY hair removal and use an IPL machine which has been really good. It was expensive to buy but works well for me. (Dark hair-pale skin so I've the ideal combo here).
Haircut twice a year £80 total, no colour.
Make up/skincare probably averages about a £10 a month.

this is the least of your problem

golf comes out of joint account because of so called networking-and you have to pay for childcare

hes financial.ly abusing you

There's an embarrassing divide between people who have straight away dived into the thread with their expenditures on beauty and those who have read the OP's subsequent posts....

Hair is £55 every 8 weeks for roots and foils
Eyebrow threading £10 every 4 weeks
So pretty low maintenance beauty wise

However my PT is £140 every 4 weeks - I will never give this up!

theunbreakablecleopatrajones

would you mind telling me what conditioning treatment you use a few times a year please. I have unruly frizzy hair .thanks !

I turn 40 next week. I don’t spend anything, no hair, no nails, no brows. Nothing. I don’t know that’s a good thing. I got my first hair cut in about 2 years yesterday, 2 years before that I just asked somebody to hack it all off quickly so I could keep tying it up.

i think maybe I’d like to start treating myself a bit more but I feel it’s not “me” and I don’t do that sort of thing.

Haircut and highlights £95 every 6 weeks
Brow tint and wax every 3 weeks £18
Massage every 4 weeks £ 40

No no no, this isn’t good regarding his attitude or outburst tho OP.

Golf shouldn’t be coming out of the joint account as it’s not a joint expense, his justifications for that are a nonsense and ‘gaslighting’.

As a PP said, the joint account should be proportionate to earnings.

You do both paid work and have brought up 4 DC. How much money did he ‘save’ when he flounced off to the pub?!

I’m 41, not much.
I do my own hair, nails, eyebrows and shave.
so apart from buying makeup, nail varnish, and razors etc , I spend nothing.

if I don’t get my eyebrows ‘done’, I end up with one, which stretches all the way across my browline. I don’t need ‘tweakments’; I need two eyebrows which preferably have a discernible shape.

To answer the original question, I spend:
£100 every 8 weeks or so on a hair cut and colour
£35 on bikini and underarm wax every 6 weeks
£5 on eyebrow threading every 4-6 weeks.

I am also considering adding my chin and neck to my waxing routine as I spend an inordinate amount of time managing the very dark, coarse hairs which pop up. Given how the rest of my body hair is (very dark, abundant) I suspect it’s just going to get worse as I age.

I do bleach my own tache, dye my own eyebrows and paint my own nails, as they’re all quite easy to manage at home (and my nails grow really well naturally so I don’t need acrylics or similar). When I’m feeling particularly organised I sometimes go for a lash lift and tint which I think is money very well spent, but for some reason I’m rubbish at making sure I get it booked in regularly.

Hardly ever go to the hairdressers, not because of cost but because it’s 3 hours and my lovely hairdresser is often hard to pin down so I just sort of give up 😂
I do have a monthly massage and have just started going for a pedicure just before it - total cost of £110 a month. Also spend around £200 a month in space NK on various beauty/skincare/shampoo sorts of things.
get my eyebrows waxed before a holiday, about £15 as and when.

My money, not dhs business. Could cut back on all of it if I needed to but I don’t want to!

also spend a similar amount to the above on gym membership, reformer Pilates classes and swimming. Would be more reliant to cut down on any of this though as I do see it as an investment in my physical and mental health. So good for my wellbeing.

My nails are £40 (BIAB & colour on top) - I try to stretch it out to every 5/6 weeks to save a bit of money

Toenails - £35 every 2 months

Hair colour/extensions/blowdry - £200-300 every 2 months depending on what I get done

That’s pretty much everything. I used to get lash lifts & brow lamination every 8 weeks for £75. I haven’t had that in a while cause I need to find a new salon.

Don’t know if I have missed something, but personally I find hair/nail costs to be a reasonable expense. I don’t go to the cheapest salons or get the cheapest services, I’m paying for the best of the best in my area and am happy with the results.

@ChattyChai having read all your updates your husband sounds like an appalling sexist selfish pig.

You have equally supported the family - him by earning more, you by raising the kids and earning what you could alongside.

Start taking the childcare out of the joint pot immediately, and work on equal access to what is family money - it’s not his it’s both of yours.

No you won’t both be able to live of one pension. You should not be drawing on savings to live when your joint income is perfectly adequate. As well as taking your fair share of the family money right now, start building your career and your own money asap, because he really sounds like the sort of man who will start shagging the barmaid at the golf club at some point and ditch you with not a lot.

Currently getting my toenails lasered at £100 a session because I’ve got fungus. Hair £50 three times a year. I do my own fingernails. The couple of times I had a professional manicure it was £15. Nothing else.

Zero, I cut my own hair and only paint my toenails, so I'm not much help!

Hair about £180 every 6/7 weeks
Make up and skincare, about £75pcm
Perfume - don't ask

I work full time. DH has no idea and couldn't give a flying although in covid when I couldn't get my roots done, he suggested letting it grow out wasn't a good idea.

I'm 65. I'm worth it. If DH didn't think I was worth it, he could find a better place to lay his head. X

Hair is very important for how you look, but I don't see the reason for getting eyebrows and nails done professionally. That money would probably be better spent on tweakments.

Nails £45 every 2 weeks (because I am terribly heavy handed) but I do go a salon that specialises in caring for your natural nails.
H D Brows every 6 to 8 weeks £40
Hair £0 mother is a hairdresser

I have had my eyeliner tattooed on… so there was a cost to that, but it lasts a huge amount of time and my face needled, which I would do again if I felt it was needed (boosts collagen).

I really want to start getting lash lift and tints regularly (only do them for holidays right now) and laser hair removal now.

and there was me thinking I was low maintenance 😂

Hair every six weeks - £85
Podiatrist every six weeks -£35
Eyebrow and lip threading every four weeks -£25

Where/how do you get your hair cut for twelve quid?! Thought that was a male privilege.

I used to have hourly massages every 6 weeks but out financial situation changed.

never spent on nails

hair approx £70 every 3 months

nothing else but I do miss those messages. As soon as I can afford it again I’m back to those!

Hair cut £60 every 8-12 weeks

Waxing £30 every 8-12 weeks (less in winter)

i don’t the other things you mentioned regularly, nails might be once a year as a treat, but more likely to choose a massage.

About £60-70 for a hair cut probably 3 times a year. Thats it.

I am happy with how i look naturally, i don't really like the heavily made up/nails/brows/lip filler look.

What you’re describing isn’t excessive, so if you can afford it and it makes you happy, why not? Plus you are probably supporting small female run businesses, so there’s that.

180 on cut, colour and a conditioning treatment 4 times a year (not bad for london)

60 quid on a conditioning treatment in between times - x3 a year (I suffer badly from frizz)

say 3 pedicures a year - 3O quid each

Brows threaded - 8 quid every 4 to 6 weeks

I am currently spending about 500 quid a year on some permanent hair removal and have been for a couple of years - but it’s hormone related so I’d put it under medical.