If you are a Hairdresser- how often are you given a tip ?

[EatsQuorn]

As a question on a different thread but about tipping in restaurants .
Do you receive a tip by every client or how often on average ?

I go to the hairdresser every six weeks for a cut, cour and blow dry. £130 to £180. My hairdresser is fantastic and always heavily booked in advance. I always tip £10 minimum. She always fits me in and texted in advance of lockdown ending on 12th April last year. I had friends who had to wait 5 weeks and moaned - they don't tip or have a good, friendly relationship with their hairdresser.

My hairdresser pays rent for the shop, business rates, utilities, wages, tax and NI. She works Weds-Sat 10 until 8 on her feet all day listening to SW London yummies and matriarchs chat shit about their sports clubs, interior design and ghastly husband's. I couldn't do it.

Thank you to the HAIRDRESSERS who have answered 😂😂

I only pay £6 for a dry cut 😂

How do you tip though?

I have never seen any other customer tip at the salon I go to. You go to reception, are taken to your chair, stylist comes over for a chat about what you want done, junior takes you for hair wash, back to seat, stylist cuts and drys, says goodbye, receptionist sorts out payment. (I assume all of that is standard)

At what point in that process do you tip? Are you supposed to hand over cash to the junior and to the stylist when you see them? Or to the receptionist when you pay at the end? Or ask for it to be added to the bill? If you are tipping the junior but not the stylist do you have to do it when they take you back to your seat, because otherwise how do you identify who you are leaving the money for (try to describe them, or point at them from across the room when you pay?)

At a restaurant it is easier because you just leave cash once the bill is paid.

No problem @EatsQuorn 🤣

I get my hair done every 5-6 weeks and pay £110 so I don't tip. Never have.

My hairdressers is a social enterprise - so you pay what you want to, tipping not really an option.
I always pay at or above the average, donated to go fund me in lockdown, and occasionally take in pastries etc. (from another social enterprise)