Girls/ Women, how much do you spend on yourself in average per month on beauty treatments, makeup, hair, clothes etc…

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Not sure if this makes a difference, but I am from Essex so have been bought up around imagine being quite important and I do love to look good, I was about 16 years old when TOWIE started so I have been bought up with that sort of lifestyle in a way, but I’m not to the extreme. I am still very natural looking, I’ve had 2 children and let myself go a little so I have decided I want to get back to how I used to be as I just feel so down about myself.

So currently I take mounjaro which I plan to only use until January, I no longer get my nails done as I prefer them looking natural now, I only get my hair done 3 times a year, I get Botox twice a year, I get nice makeup but I don’t wear a lot and use it rarely, I buy good hair products and I have just decided to get 1ml of lip filler to make them a bit plumper but this will only be once a year as I don’t like the fake look, I just like to look fresh and new! I don’t get any facials, I don’t spend on expensive face creams, I don’t wear designer, I get a lot of my clothes from vinted, body stuff etc, I don’t tan, I don’t have extensions either, apart from one time I tried them and they went horribly wrong, but working it all out I probably spend approx £200 a month on myself, probably a bit more at the minute because of the mounjaro which is temporary. My husband thinks this is outrageous and always comments on how much I spend, but I do work full time, I earn my own money but he is the main earner and earns very well but thinks I overspend.

The reason I am asking is because I am hoping others can say how much they spend each month on theirselves in hopes I’m not that bad!!! I get I don’t need Botox, don’t need lip filler, don’t need my hair done, but then I would just feel so unhappy in myself, and I enjoy pampering and I like to feel good!

Also not asking for judgement here as I know some people will just be dead against this. So just responses from those actually responding to what I have asked please. Thank you x

Probably about £1.75

Some carbolic soap and spf 30 and I'm done

@GretaGipsoap and spf for £1.75, bargain. Il take your advice, but in all honestly your either not my age, younger or older, cannot afford it, or just happy in your own skin and don’t do anything, I mean who doesn’t even get their hair cut 😩

About a fiver on some spf moisturiser and that's about it.

Realised I haven't had a haircut for over 3years now, I have cut it myself just long enough to tie back but not a proper style.

£20 a month? Cerave cleaner, moisturiser, night cream

I occasionally file my nails.

What other people spend is not the point here, everyone's situations vary and to some £200 will be small change and to others a ridiculous expense.

The point is, if you have your own funds and you make fair contributions the joint account and family savings, it's none of his business how you spend your money.

Hair highlighted (£60 every other month)
Personal Trainer (£140 per month)
Gym (£25 per month)

I don't use expensive creams/shampoos or have my nails done but don't mind paying for my fitness 💪

Why is no one getting their hair cut or buying clothes, I just cannot imagine being fully 100% natural. I like wearing natural good makeup, nice hair and just feeling good. I probably could pass with the Botox to be fair, I am only 32!

@TurkishShepherd very true, well it’s very affordable for me/ us, but for some reason he thinks I spend too much on it

About £50 a month including hair, clothes, face care, make up.

I get my hair done every five weeks - £100.
Eyebrows and eyelashes dyed every 3 weeks (im very fair). Legs waxed every 6-7 weeks. Pedicure 3-weekly in summer. Can't remember what those are.

Expensive shampoo and conditioner. Perfume daily. No fancy skin care routine - inky face balm, lidl serum, nivea moisturiser. Minimal make-up (tinted moisturiser, lip balm and mascara if im making a rare effort 😂).

I think Im quite low maintenance but that must easily be c£200 a month to answer your husband's point.

I'm 40. About £40 I suppose. Skin+me, shampoo and conditioner (lasts about 3 months) and dove bar (lasts about 4). Then razors, mascara, boots moisturiser when it runs out. I maybe get a £30 haircut once a year but it's long and straight. My sister usually does the ends every couple of months for free. Rarely buy new clothes - maybe something nice from a charity shop if I see something when looking at clothes. I earn reasonable money (tech job) but I don't consider it a fun use of my money.

Everyone's different - if you get joy from it, spend what you can afford! Why does it matter how much you spend if it's your money? Does he have expensive hobbies/car?

Maybe £10-£20 per month. I don't wear makeup, cut my own hair and I don't buy new clothes regularly.

The point is, if you have your own funds and you make fair contributions the joint account and family savings, it's none of his business how you spend your money.

And so much THIS.

I don’t get any treatments.

Skincare - maybe £15-20 a month on average
Make up - I don’t wear much and probably don’t replace bits, like mascara, of it as often as I should. I do my own nails. Probably £5-10 a month averaged over the year.

Hair - £10 a month, get it cut twice a year for about £60. This is because I dislike going to the hairdressers and have a longish easy style that doesn’t need frequent cuts (although realistically I probably do leave it too long because I don’t like going). It’s also not coloured at all which makes it cheaper.

Clothes - hard to say. I don’t buy new clothes regularly and the cost varies quite a bit. For example, last month I bought some £200 boots but they were to replace an older pair I’d had a few years. I need to buy a dress for a winter wedding soon, as my formal dresses are all a bit summery. Last winter I bought a nice new coat so won’t buy one this year. Maybe £5-600 a year on average, but that is a guess, it will vary, and I may be undercooking it by forgetting smaller purchases that add up!

If we’re including the gym then £25 a month on that as well.

But if you can afford it then it doesn’t really matter. Depends how you split your finances I guess, and whether your husband is right that you (you as a couple) are spending more than you should, and then you can both look at where that goes.

I've no idea what brought up being quite important means but I spend more than £200pcm on hair, clothes, skincare and make-up.

Never had tweakments, weight loss drugs, brows or nails. I buy shampoo and conditioner from the supermarket.

I think it’s a typo for “brought up around image being quite important”.

Lots of people are getting their hair done, my hairdressers is full every time I go! I think the title is just attracting people that want to say they spend nothing rather than the ones that do spend.

I spend around £70 every 3 months on getting my hair cut and coloured and £25 a month on dermatica tretinoin treatment.

This has been great for me, I've never had great skin and my frown lines have improved massively. My skin is much smoother and my makeup sits much better on it now.

I don't do botox or fillers and I do my own nails with a gel lamp. I buy perfume dupes instead of brands and clothes are all supermarket or vinted!

I wear budget makeup brands daily and have nicer makeup for going out but I don't really count my spending on this as it lasts a long time. I like to make an effort and look nice but I don't spend that much really.

I'm wondering why you feel that Botox is necessary? You're still young.

I think I spend £12-20 per month on toiletries and cosmetics.
Maybe twice a year about £50- 100 on clothes, depending what's needed.
No nails or "tweakments". Hairdressers every 3 months for a trim.
However - we're all different.
It boils down to this; can you afford it? Does it matter to you? Why is your DH complaining?

£80 on hair once every 2 months.

£20 on moisturiser once every 3 months or so.

Can't be arsed with make up since covid, just keep my natural skin healthy with a good diet, spf and drinking plenty water.

Each to their own but personally I don't think the filler/botox look is nice and I would prefer not to fill myself full of chemicals and just let nature do it's thing.

I do my own nails so probably buy a few new colours each year. Guessing £30 per year on that.

Clothes - not into fast Primark style fashion for environmental and poor working condition reasons. Tend to spend a lot on clothes when I need them but they last for ages. E g I bought a new jumper yesterday for £65 but it's 50% proper wool so hopefully will last a few winters.

As you can probably tell, I'm very low maintenance 😆.

When I was working:

half head highlights and cut every three months; 125 a time
no make up
various creams mostly supermarket so maybe tenner a month
posh shampoo and conditioner to help keep the highlights - maybe tenner a month
no Botox or similar
clothes a LOT, work clothes were expensive. Maybe a couple of hundred a month.

now I’m not working:
last haircut was pre Covid
no creams
no posh shampoo
still no make up
clothes maybe fifty quid a month

I have a pixie cut so that's £50 every 5 weeks. I am starting to get grey a lot now but I don't really see the point in colouring, I did a semi-permanent one for a while and it was nice but I don't like it now anymore.

My moisturiser and facial was are from Elemis, that's around £100/quarter on average.

I hardly wear make up, stopped when Covid hit and maybe use now tinted moisturiser, powder and mascara if at all when I go out or have a client visit. DD (19) has a whole beauty regime I just can't get my head around it. She is great, it looks very well done but for me just too much effort

Nails - no, never fancied doing them. Botox/Fillers - just why? I am 53 and yes, I start to get lines but hey, I am 53, that's normal. Luckily TOWIE was when I was already to old to buy into this kind of thing.

Clothes - I buy quality over fashion. My clothes last years so the main thing I buy regularly are underwear, especially bras as I love wearing lace.

Hair is twice a year - £160ish x2 (balayage, toner, cut and blow) = £320
Botox - had my first stint this year - plan on going twice a year for 2 areas = £210 x2 =£420.00 £420.
Micro needling (again, new this summer) 3 sessions a year (if I did this annually) approx £500.
Nails - occasionally - so say £90 a year.
Good cosmetics and SPF (retinol, vitamin C etc) probably £300 a year.
make up - not bothered so probably £100 a year.
yikes - £1700ish!!

I am about 20 years older than you, and it feels like you've voluntarily put yourself on a "beauty treadmill" you'll never get off now. And the incline will just get steeper.

I've got plenty of clothes. I replace them when I need to, but I don't usually just buy for the sake if it.
I get my hair cut when it needs it, but I simply cba with dying it and all that so I'm not even going to start, despite quite a few greys showing now (brunette).
I wear makeup occasionally, but not every day (mostly wfh and I am not slapping it on just to go to Tesco)
I have lines on my face, but... so what?

Women can be very very beautiful without artifice. When their faces show a life that's been lived. When they are "natural", as you put it. My external beauty isn't what defines me, and if people want to judge me based on that, then not much I can do about it. I have a great career, a nice home, I do enjoyable things in life with nice friends. Who gives a fuck if I don't have fish-lips (when there's nothing wrong with my mouth anyway)?

Hair - cut three times a year by a mobile hairdresser, about £15 each time.

Skincare. I use an olay day and night moisturiser and a serum, an inky list retinol. They all last about three months and are usually on offer somewhere so I would guess average of £25 a month? I use very little make up. Foundation, concealer and mascara last me months.

Clothes - try not to buy many. Probably max £200-250 a year.

I don't have any kind of treatment or nails. I live in an area also known for high maintenance appearances and there are a lot of people around who clearly spend lots on that kind of thing. I'm probably the least "groomed" person at my workplace, but there are also lots of people around where I live who also seem low-maintenance.

I might spend a bit more but my kids are very expensive - both have had significant mental health difficulties and I spend a fortune on private therapy. One of my DC has an expensive hobby she is passionate about. Their needs have caused a lot of stress so my appearance hasn't been a priority. However, I can see that for some people making an effort with how they look makes them feel better and might be helpful for stress. If I had the time and money I would probably spend a bit more on myself.