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

I have long and incredibly thick natural Afro hair and a disability that means I can’t really do anything with it myself.

My DH has no clue what I spend on it 😂

I don’t get my nails done, but if I ever stop biting them I might start! Maybe should start anyway and that would stop the biting…

I pay £75 total every 5-6 weeks on hair (cut and colour), brows (wax and tint) and facial waxing (chin and tache!)

£50 a month on skincare and makeup.
£50 every month on a massage

Nails are £30 every 2 weeks
Lash lift £35 every 6-8 weeks
Hair is every 6 weeks £80
Eyebrow wax £15 every 2 weeks
Pedicure £35 every couple of months
Facial £60 every couple of months

£120 for hair extensions moved up and colour every 6 weeks
£20 for nails every 3 weeks
£260 on Botox twice a year

I can’t remember how much my home kits were, but anything I do I DIY these days. If I had the money and time I would definitely go to the professionals though.

Haircut £20 once a year
£0 on the rest

Pretty much identical to you

Nails almost never. Facial and/or pedicure maybe once a year.
brows £12 every two months or so
hair £40 every two months or so
box dye hair myself every two months or so

I’m pretty low maintenance I think. BUT I spend a similar amount to what you spend on beauty, on a hobby. I don’t think what you are spending is unreasonable at all but it depends on what other outgoings there are

I am 36 and spend £55 every 3-4 weeks on lashes and brows and £80 every 8 weeks on getting my hair cut and highlighted.

I can’t have nails done in my profession but get a pedicure every 3-4 months which is £40.

so what is he going to contibute extra to the savings?

Every 3 weeks - Nails £25

Every 4 weeks - hair can vary between £50-80 depending on if it’s roots and a trim or some highlights too. I get a very minimum of the roots done 4 weekly.

once a month/bi monthly - threading £14-£25 depending on what I get done. If I can stretch to every other month I just pluck myself.

I also tan (myself) every other day and wear a full face of makeup daily so do buy a lot of tan and makeup. I also take good care of my skin and have a lot of skin care but try to make use of the boots £10 Tuesday to stock up on products to keep costs down there.

I clicked on this thread out of curiosity about nail prices - but this post makese think "what in the actual fuck?".

You are his married partner and mother to his children in a family that joins you all together as a unit. Families require money, but they also require time, effort & support. Maybe he has made a greater financial contribution this far, but you have made the greater time/effort/support contribution that, as PP have rightly pointed out, facilitated him earning more & advancing in his career.

Where would he be if he'd been doing 50% of drop offs, pick ups and sick days?

I am HORRIFIED that childcare comes out of your spends when they are JOINT CHILDREN.

IMHO when both partners are working, all household/family expenses should come out of a joint pot that is fed, ideally, in proportion to each partner's income. I.e. if he earns 90k to your 30k, he pays 75% to your 25%.

Be careful of the pensions too, because you have practically none & he is already talking like you "owe" him money for the audacity you showed in RAISING HIS CHILDREN. I doubt he'll share fairly and you may be living in financial penury while he laughs it up with his mates in the club bar.

I really think you need to read up on financial abuse. Good luck. Xx

If you can afford it and it makes you feel good go for it, My treat is highlights /root touch up every 6 weeks and I do not feel guilty about it at all!

edit for typos

Every 4 weeks I pay

£45 haircut
£75 leg and bikini wax
£17 eyebrows tint and wax

I work and choose to look after myself.

My husband is a hobby pilot and owns a microlight aircraft, he chooses to spend his money flying as often as he can.

Yeh what you spend on beauty treatments is not your issue...

Eyebrows threaded once or twice a month (£5 per time)
Pedicure every 6 weeks from May-Sept (£33 per time)
Highlights and a cut 3/4 times are year (£100 for half head, £140 for full - I alternate each time)
Between work and looking after a 1 year old I don’t really get the time to fit in anymore than this!

Eyelashes every 3 weeks £30
hair probably 5 times a year at £100 a pop
massage once a month £30-£50 depending on what I have
Botox 3 times a year at £180 each go
Mounjaro maintenance £140 a month

i do my own nails and eyebrows (have a fringe to hide them haha)

I don’t think I’m high maintenance but now I’ve written it down maybe I am!!!

I don’t care. Like you; I can afford it and it makes me feel good about myself.

Hair-£40 roots/toner a month (my hairdresser is mobile & she’s been doing my hair about 6 years,I provide the bleach)
nails-£23 every 3 weeks
eyebrows-just waxed-£5 every 3 weeks
tattoos-£60-£100 a year (had to limit this cuz it’s my most expensive treat-my tattooist has been my friend for 20+ years so I get mates rates)

Haircut maybe once a year. About £60. I need one now but can't really justify the expense. Instead, I spend a bit longer straightening at home (3 minutes).
I'd like to treat myself to nice highlights to hide my increasingly prominent and noticeable grays.

That's it. Never really saw the point of having nails done as I'm happy with just a bit of nail varnish I put on myself to make myself feel brighter.

I'm glad I've not fallen in this endless trap that beauty treatments seem to be, when I could be spending money on stuff I really enjoy.

£30 nails, every 3 weeks
£80 hair every 5
£50 wax every 8
£180 Botox every 6 months
£250 filler once a year
In summer, occasional spray tan for £25
£280 microblading brows every 2 years ish

I get my hair highlighted around every 8 months, just to blend the grey, so with that and a cut it’s £100. And then a cut in between highlights usually, which is £40.

And a lash lift every 6 weeks, which is £40 a time.

That’s it.

Nothing wrong with that, I spend 40 on my nails and 90 for a T-bar of foils - everything has got so expensive nowadays, but the alternative is to not have my nails done which, if I had to I’d do without, but I’d never go back to my natural hair colour, it’s mouse brown/ dirty fair and no thanks.

If you can afford it and it brings you pleasure, then that's fine.

When I was working, I used to spend about £140 every 3 or 4 months getting my hair cut and having highlights put in. However, since I retired about 5 years ago I've been cutting my own hair (started in lockdown and never stopped) and I've always looked after my own nails and eyebrows. So my current expenditure on these things is a big fat zero!

My mum trims my hair ever six weeds or so, free of charge. I colour it every three weeks and use one and a half packs of colour so about £11.00. I do my nails myself.

I may match littllemy for low maintenance. I am 51. 2 haircuts per year at local salon. £16 quid each.
It's your money do what you want. I spend mine on expensive waterproofs and hiking.boots to climb up mountains.
Whatever is important to you