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

About £100, I think.

• Gym membership is free with my work, which is great as I go to several classes a week.
• Hair - £25 every other month, which is cut and colour mates' rates - very lucky to have this
• Skincare - roughly £30 per month
• Vitamins - roughly £20 per month
• Clothing - maybe £25 per month; I really don't need any more clothes!
• Makeup - don't really bother with it, so maybe £5 per month

Don't bother having nails done as prefer natural. Have a facial maybe once a year. Have just come off Mounjaro after a couple of months, as I think I can handle the final stone without spending £££. I did have one session of botox, but don't think I'll bother again.

I earn in the early £50ks. £200 is "Outrageous" if that's a significant chunk of your income. If it isn't, don't worry about it!

About £400 a month. About £200 on clothes, £150 on hair appointments, and £50 on makeup, moisturisers, shampoo and other products. I don’t get my nails done as I do gym which ruins any polish, and am a pianist so can’t have them long.

I nearly started crying last year because of one of these threads- I worked out I’d spend 313€ in total in one year on hair, beauty, skincare and clothes and most of that was on one pair of runners!!! . I vowed this year I’d get more treats but haven’t gotten there yet (low point cut my own hair which I was not good at and couldn’t afford to get fixed but higher point did an ok job fixing it😉😂), but have bought jumpers already for winter and a moisturiser I wanted so it’s a start! (Note I have 4 kids so money goes go to something worthwhile but I do want to up my spend and have stuff I like as opposed to anything at all!)

It depends, this year so far I’ve spent £90 on a hair cut and probably won’t get my hair cut again until next year 🙈😂

I do buy hair products (wavy/curly hair) but not every month, maybe an average of £10 a month.

I also only buy a certain skin cream which is quite expensive but I buy when on offer, maybe on average £15 a month.

Very little on make up, maybe £50 a year.

I’ll never inject anything into my face, I’m not vain enough to care enough 🤷‍♀️

Think that works out as an average of £50-£60 a month ish.

Clothes I buy when I see something I like or I need something, this year so far I think I’ve spent around £100 in total and that was on t.shirts for the summer.

This is about your relationship and your joint financial goals, and also about you and your feelings. It’s not easy going through big changes like having children. I worry a bit that you still ‘feel down about yourself’ even though you are doing all this? If your husband got his way and you were spending £10 a month or something, what wouid the money go on instead? And how much does he spend on all this including clothes, gym and fitness?

I spend a lot, especially if you include all the stuff that segues into medical areas. I earn ok and my child is grown up, earning and has savings (I just would ask whether you are managing to save for your children? But if you’re paying nursery bills forget it, that’s just a time to hang on and hope)

Monthly it works out to over £1300:
Mounjaro 280
Skincare 50
Dental 150 (I have severe gum disease and this cost is only going to go up! Plus I am now a sucker for any alleged specialist toothbrush etc)
Hairdresser and hair products 80 - I get my hair coloured, costs a fortune
Gym and classes 100
Osteopath, physio and specialist massage 200
Therapy 200
Private HRT prescription 15
Clothes and shoes 200

If I had to give it all up tomorrow the one I would keep is the hairdresser… and the therapy if I could.

Botox at 32! Crazy. It’s very sad that women are conditioned to believe that their looks are so important. Lip filler generally looks terribly fake no matter how many protests we read on here. “Let yourself go” is such a negative mindset. Did you need mounjaro due to obesity or are you taking it to lose a stone like many do?
Be as healthy as you can, be clean, be suitably dressed and shod but otherwise why be so focused on what the media says we should be and look like? You have children so think about what messages you are sending them about how women should look. It’s damaging for both sexes.

Haircut £50 2x a year.
No nails, eyebrows, lashes etc.
New Charlotte Tilbury foundation when it runs out £39, about 1x a year, maybe 2.

Further to my previous post, I’ve only just started the extra skincare - ie Botox and micro needling, since turning 40. Last year my spend was just basic make up, decent skincare products (vitamin C and retinol and SPf50), plus hair twice a year. I also have had laser hair removal - so if it’s a year I’m doing that then I’m spending more.

I think it’s each to their own. But I have to say I look better with Botox, then it fades and I’m left thinking oh, should I get it again already. A dangerous cycle would then begin, so need to be strict!

I get my hair cut and highlighted every 6 weeks, which is £90. I don't have nails or botox or anything like that, and I buy cheap toiletries and make up, less than £10 on any item usually. My beauty regime is aqueous cream, rosewater, hyaluronic acid serum and Nivea. Clothes wise it depends, I tend to buy Seasalt/Fatface which is quite expensive (for me). My biggest spend is probably bags, but I am cutting down.

Hey!

I’m from the north east, so similar in terms of women being into cosmetics and beauty as Essex.

I use NARS blush, Armani foundation and concealer, Laura Geller loose powder, benefit bronzer and mascara (and have a handbag full of minis) I use elf primer, Cerave eye cream and moisturiser (I used to use No7 but started breaking out so have gone more basic) I wear Tom Ford perfume (I have 4 types at any one time in all honesty) but day to day wear M&S pink pepper to the office.

I spend £100 per month on small group PT sessions, probably once a year get 0.5 of lip filler (at a good, expensive place), get a hair cut once every 6-8 weeks of £50. Only get my nails and toes gelled in summer (about £70 for both, say 3x a year)

I say all this because HOW are you spending £200 per month on just yourself on similar things? Are you a big clothes shopper? Or does this include Monjaro? I buy more clothes say over summer and perhaps new boots each winter and I’m not into designer, but I’m so curious how you’re spending that much per month?

My husband and I have a £160K joint household income, so it’s not about cost, but if one of us were spending £200 per month just on ourselves (unless it includes an expensive gym/monjuaro which isn’t to me the same category as beauty/clothes) then I do think that sounds a lot?

Feminism means supporting women’s right to freedom, including the freedom to embrace their natural looks as well as the freedom to embrace enhancing their natural looks. It only seems to be the “natural is best” women who get so offended and judgemental towards women who love fashion and beauty. Those of us who love fashion and beauty couldn’t care less that you don’t. Why is that?

Does gym membership count? It’s £63 a month.
3-4 hair cuts a year at around £50 a go.
A couple of pedicures a year - mostly to deal with hard skin on feet at £35 a go.
I dye grey hair using home kits.
I’m taking Mj but I make each 5mg pen last 10-12 weeks.
Am 51 only wear very basic make up, like boots tinted moisturiser. Clothes buy in sales but do buy stuff hard to say exact amounts.

This really. Will be so individual and the main thing is if it's your money then it's not really anyone business how you spend it.

Skin&me £15 (I use it maybe 2/3 of the time)
collagen - £15
a few bits on Vinted £20
basic moisturiser, conditioner etc £10
razors £5
esalon hair dye £10 a month (£30 every 3 months)
make up - currently using up old stuff mostly £10

so I’d guess a little under £100 a month all in.

I am a self confessed scruff buuuuut I am self employed from home which I think encourages me in that regard!

I have short curly hair that I easily cut myself. I am going grey and don't colour my hair. Am very good at doing my own brows and nails. I get about 2 or 3 pedis a year. I buy good quality clothes that last years. Don't use any face creams at all. I also don't use SPF unless on holiday. Do take Mounjaro. Never had any tweaks, wouldn't consider fillers or Botox.

Without Mounjaro I probably spend £600 a year on me, mostly clothes rather than beauty, so £50 a month average. MJ obvs bumps that right up.

A lot - I don’t have any tweakments even though i could probably do with some, I’m too scared, I love nice skin care though.

At a guess, average £200 a month between hair/nails/eyebrows then another £100 on skincare, £100 on make up/haircare/ body stuff. Will have a few massages/facials etc a year too.

clothes I’ve no idea, sometimes I buy nothing for ages then lots in one go or a fancy bag/shoes.

so maybe £600 a month averaged out on myself, it comes from my own discretionary spending pot though so not really anyone else’s business… especially my husband’s

I agree, perhaps it's about discussing family expenditure with your husband if it's problematic?

OP your spend isn’t that much if you include clothes which are expensive and hair which can be expensive if you do colours. Isn’t that why you work, to spend on things you like. I’m v v low maintenance but still get through a fair bit. My DH would never pull me up on it though.

Gym £80pm - £960pa
Hair 4x £40 - £160pa
Make up etc - £100pa - don’t use many products
Treatments 0
Clothes - £1000pa? V hard to say, could be more with shoes etc
Total £185 excl gym £85

To caveat - I don't have treatments or Botox or waxing or nails etc. Only external thing I pay for is my hair which is about £600 per year. I also earn a very high salary and am the main breadwinner in our house. I have to look smart for work as I am in the boardroom. I buy high end make up and mid range skincare.

I budget £400 per month for myself - this includes clothes, skincare, hair and also things like books or nice bits and bobs. I do buy high end high street clothes so one clothing item is normally over £100. I would struggle on £200 but that's because I have to look very smart all the time!

I get my eyebrows plucked and shaped 3 times a year at £15 a time. Use Clinique but sparingly as only wear make up if going out out as opposed to just going out. Use their moisturiser as well. I dye my own hair at home every six weeks, the dye is £15, a friend trims my hair which is handy. I file my own nails and actively dislike the nails done look.

Probably about £350 PA on beauty stuff.

Clothes very variable I buy good quality stuff and rarely buy new stuff. I do like Vinted and charity shops. I bought a silk chiffon dress for a fiver off Vinted last month.

I could afford a lot more if I wanted to but what’s the point really I don’t see the point in fighting ageing so much.

I have to laugh at the competitive underspending ! Baring in mind the hyper hygiene competitiveness of two showers a day on some threads I think people are not that honest. If you asked on the style and beauty board it might be different.
I spend about £400 per month, that is my personal spends amount and I spend it on hair cut and colour every 8-10 weeks, nails every 3 weeks, toes every 6 weeks, brow wax and tint and lash tint every 6 weeks.
the rest I spend on skincare, make up and clothes, so it depends what I need, I don’t need any skincare at the moment but I have spent a bit more on clothes this week as I wanted some new bits for autumn/ winter. I wear makeup every day and Iike Chanel, dior or charlotte tilbury so I spend a lot but the products last.
as for your husbands view, it’s nothing to do with him is it, I am sure he has priorities or hobbies that he spends on. My husband doesn’t mind what I spend my money on and doesn’t mind if I need more from the joint account for example if I need an outfit for a wedding. He also likes that I make an effort with how I look and also if I am happy then he is too, I know I am lucky in that regard.

Does your husband like the way you look? I would imagine he does, so tell him to shut his trap and mind his own business since it's your money you're spending and you can afford it.

My most expensive outlay is my hairdresser, I go every 6 weeks or so for a cut and colour €140.

skincare I do invest in a good moisturiser, I think that is the most important item for long term skincare (I’m 60 and still fairly wrinkle free). It costs between €40 and €80 for a pot depending on the brand, but it does last me around 4-6 months, so €10 ish a month. Cleansing I use micellar water in the evening and plain water splashed on my face in the morning and very rarely have a facial.

nails are natural and long. I don’t see the need for gel and don’t like the look.

I’ve never done Botox or filler and would not go near that.

Other areas of the body I have an epilator for most areas, will have a Brazilian bikini wax about twice a year which costs €35 each time. Exercise I do YouTube weight trainer sessions, or walk or hike in the mountains. I guess there was some initial outlay for the weights, but that was years ago.

clothes I have a brilliant secondhand designer shop nearby, or else Vinted. That said, I have a lot of designer pieces from the 90s and early 00s that I can mostly still fit into so they get used a fair amount. All good quality stuff and it has lasted very well. My DD also dips into my “vintage” collection so it saves her money too.

Gym £237
Hair £ 97 every 2 months
Waxing / Electrolysis £ 122 over 2 months
Physio for back £36 every 5 weeks
pedi €32 every month
makeup / skincare / body lotion / Shower gel as and when needed but all premium brands .

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