How much or how little do you spend on self care, beauty and grooming?

[PamelaTodd]

Obviously going to be different for everyone, but I’m just curious and trying to reset my own perspective. I struggle a bit to justify spending on myself at all.

In a typical month, what would you spend on creams, shampoos, treatments, hair styling, products, etc?

Used to be £500-1000 but I’ve cut right back a few months ago. Maybe £200 these days?

I have always had a good haircut which costs £60 every six weeks.

Other than that - two pedicures a year, legs waxed every four/five weeks, eyelashes curled/dyed three or four times a year.

Products, I use boots hot cloth cleanser and no7 moisturiser.

Excluding haircut I reckon £30-5 a month including products. More than I expected when added up tbh.

Clearly I am tight 😂. I didn’t spend much more when I earned a huuuge amount and was single.

Maybe £50? I buy good products but I use them sparingly, and I stagger buying them. Last month I bought a new mascara and a new tinted moisturiser so it would have been about £60-80.

It helps that I’ve finally found the perfect hair regime after years of buying ££ products, and it involves my £1.99 secret weapon!

I don’t know how £1000 a month is possible unless you are paying for your hair to be licked clean by unicorns or something?

I buy eczema gel for my face once every 4 months - it costs £20. I also by shampoo for sensitive scalp once every 3 months (bulk buy on amazon - btw my hair is really shiny and in good condition since I started using it, bonus!)
I’m usually given a large tube of L’occitane hand cream (use at bedtime so one tube usually lasts about a year!)
I think that’s everything. Don’t really buy makeup (minimal use so one lasts for ages). I’m allergic to most lotions, creams etc so don’t bother with anything else.

Even pre-allergies I found beauty stuff a bit boring and slightly ridiculous. Just another tool to make women feel they aren’t good enough. I honestly thing toners and the like are just a massive con! How many men use toners and yet their skin is fine. I can’t help feeling the less crap you put on your skin the more likely it is to be good (excepting skin conditions etc).

That’s it.

Around 50 a month i reckon.

And every 3 months a £90 hair colour and cut.

Probably £50-100 a month. Plus haircut every 3-4 months (£250).

unless you are paying for your hair to be licked clean by unicorns or something?

😂🤣

Not much anymore:

Haircut - £130 (twice a year)
Shampoo & Conditioner- £10 per month
Makeup basics - £20 every 3 months
Treatments - £20 for nails twice a year

Around £500 annually but I used to get nails done every month, eyebrows done, waxing etc so was actually more like £100 a month spending.

£20 on nails, £7 on eyebrows and maybe another £10 on mascara/blusher/eyeshadow.

Get my hair cut once a year and don't dye it.

I am quite frugal with this kind of thing. I get my hair cut twice a year and coloured four times a year for £50 a time. I use an epilator on my legs and underarms, but get my bikini line waxed a couple of times a year. I use Simple face wash, Olay moisturiser and whatever shampoo is on special offer. I rarely wear make up and never get my nails done. I go on a spa day with a friend once a year and have a treatment then.

I have hair cut and dyed approx every 8 weeks-£60
Other than that barely anything.
My make up lasts years and years. Perhaps buy one new item every 6 months at the most
Shampoo etc. I get from tk Maxx so maybe £5 a month
The last time I had my nails done was 7 years ago.
Have never had eyebrows, lashes or anything like that.
So I reckon on average a maximum of £50 per month

Not much at all, but every now and then I wish I spent more. I don’t ever buy myself make up unless I’m in the airport (rare) or have perhaps a wedding coming up and know I need something. Even then I go to Savers as opposed to boots/Superdrug.
I have my hair cut maybe twice a year 🤦🏻‍♀️ I will dye it myself every 3-4months.
I don’t own any fake tan/face creams/foundations. I just use soap and water to clean my face, although I know that’s not ideal.

I never see it as an important expense to buy these things for myself, so before you know it it’s been 6mnths. I don’t wear make up often, unless it’s a special occasion and as a pregnant woman with a four year old, special occasions are few and far between!

God like literally fuck all.
Buy shampoo and nice soap and that.
Get my hair cut a few times a year at £40 a go.
feel scruffy now

I don’t know how £1000 a month is possible unless you are paying for your hair to be licked clean by unicorns or something?

I agree. I buy fairly low budget or mid-range products and they last me for ages. I have low maintenance baylayage - that lasts about 7 or 8 months before I have it redone. And a trim maybe twice a year. Make up is again budget or mid-range but will last for a long time as well, I don’t need to buy it that regularly (no idea how much this would be monthly if you add it up and average it out - probably less than 30 quid).

@lastqueenofscotland. Me to!!!! A bottle of shampoo and some moisture cream.

I used to spend quite a lot but I’ve stopped buying expensive moisturiser and make-up (I now just use cheap moisturiser and only wear eyeliner, eyebrow pencil and mascara), so I reckon I probably spend £25 a month, which includes a hair cut every few months.

About 50 a year...maybe less

Me too. Probably £50 a year. And it shows.
I'd like to spend more, but I can't.

Gosh I’d say zero most months. Haircut at £60 twice a year. Few bars of shampoo a year and cheap conditioner and shower gel every few months. I did spend about £80 replacing my makeup at the airport recently but that a once every 6 yrs thing.

Saves me a fortune!

I spend £5 every 4 months on a haircut (lucky to have a hairdresser friend)

About £4 a week on shampoo and conditioner

£1 on showergel a week and £7 a month on moisturiser

That's it I dont wear makeup and that is for me and 3 kids. Sometimes I have to spend more on wash things as youngest likes to waste it which I'd annoying.

Probably in an average month about £80-90

Nails - £25
Hair - £15
Eyebrows - £5
Makeup - £20
Various lotions and potions - £20

Expected that to be more to be honest, although of course it depends when makeup items etc run out.

£10 I think, if that. I have enough moisturiser, face wash, soap, shampoo for a few months if not the rest of the year. Bit low on perfume but should be o.k. for months.

Have some eyeliner, lipstick, cover-up stick. Don't do any treatments.

I have a full blown skincare addiction, so spend a fair amount on products over the course of a year. I don’t get my nails or eyebrows done or anything like that, but I do go for regular facials and I have my hair cut and highlighted every couple of months. It probably works out at about £250 ish a month, which is a lot more than some PPs, but I enjoy it.