to not tip my hairdresser?

[MrsSatsuma]

Just wondered what everybody else thinks about this - as I always go to the hairdresser on my own, I've no idea what anybody else does! I occasionally tip my hairdresser (eg if it's £37 I'll round it up to £40) but not always - came to £75 last time as I had highlights too and I didn't know what to do so just left it.

I don't want to tip and risk offence, if it's against convention, but I don't want them to think I'm mean. On the other hand it's pretty expensive! As far as I know people don't tip for other luxuries, like massages or manicures (do they?) so I assumed hairdressing was no different. I don't tip taxi drivers as a taxi ride usually cleans me out anyway! and I do usually tip in restaurants provided I've had good service.

Would love to know what others do!

Not usually as they make plenty on the cut alone nevermind any colour/highlights.

Do tip at restaurants as waiter/waitress likely to be a student.

I prefer to spend on people who make a big difference to my life so staff at the school and ASC as they are an important part of DS's life. I always get chocs at xmas for my next courier as she always works around my days when I have a delivery and is fab.

I do tip but mostly because I feel obliged which sounds even worse now I have actually typed it! I have been going to the same salon for years and tip £5 to the 'creative stylist' and the washer. I get stressed when a 3rd does my colour! I spend about £175 on the colour / cut and then parking so it gets really expensive but I dont go very often so I try and justify it. I do get good service just don't like feeling like I have to.
I always tip in restaurants unless service bad.

I don't tip my stylist. A cut and highlights costs me £95. I go about every 8 weeks. I really can't afford a tip on top of this price.

I do tip restaurants - usually 10% - but only if service and food have been good.

Yanbu. I don't agree with tipping tbh but was brought up to do it so usually do, even though I feel it's wrong in some situations.

Not sure where you're all having your hair done paying that much!

I go to an independent woman, £12 hair cut and I tip her £3 :)

Cost of a haircut is dear enough without me paying any more, thanks. No-one tipped me when I got out reports in record time with very little notice or, with great calm and restraint, managed to stop an awkward client from dumping a lorry load of dung in the carpark and suing the firm I worked for.

Believe me if I could find a decent one locally I would love to save some money but they never seem to have much imagination.

I used to waitress in Canada whilst at uni and tipping there is very american (i.e. HUGE!!) So I tip now b/c it's almost like my culture to do so and I feel ashamed if I don't.

What gets me though is the 12.5% gratuity added to my bill in restaurants - I don't want to be forced to tip but the real problem is that that tip doesn't even go to the server, it goes to the owner! You do not have to pay that 12,5% so next time you are out REFUSE!!

No sorry I do not like hairdressers at the best of times - grrr - v.bad experience there today with 3 dd.

I don't tip at the hairdressers - it's expensive enough as it is.

Hate to tip hairdressers; it seems quite condescending ...unless they have little piggy banks on the counter with the stylists name on, in which case I don't mind putting a few coins in.

I don't tip mine (cut/colour/highlights £75), but do give them some money in Dec to put towards their Christmas do

I don't tip my hairdresser, he is the owner and frankly from me I think he would be insulted - I know where he lives and he has waaaay more money than me and he knows it! he is lovely and has never treated me any differently because I don't tip him. But my mum always tips as does dh although dh only pays a minimal amount for his hair and I nearly passed out after having a cut and colour the other day

No way would I tip my "stylist." He's expensive enough as it is.

I have gone off tipping hairdressers. Like a couple of posters on p.1 I have been subjected to that adding a fiver to the cost trick - x2 for my daughters (Spent extra time 'shaping') and a tenner added once because -SHOCK- he had put some special conditioner on my hair !?! It really pissed me off but I always feel patheticly vulnerable at the hairdressers and paid then fumed later.....
They saw me coming? grrr. I am going from one to another until I find my ideal, or just not rip-off, hairdresser.

i worked as hairdresser for both men and women, never really made that much in tips from the ladies i think its because you pay more anyway, and tbh a good hairdresser should give just as good a service to a non- tipping customer(it isnt compulsory you know).Anyway as i read previous comments no it doesnt encourage meagre wages -the wages are meagre anyway! It is purely just a bonus if you do make good tips that day and tbh it is just as nice when you get wine/chocolates/ nice packet of biscuits to go with your afternoon coffee; its the thaught! it says 'i value your time and effort'.
working with men on the other hand they nearly always tip- the basic is 50p-£1 a nice little gesture(not breaking the bank)and it adds up at the end of the day because mens haircuts can be done waaaay quicker so you do make a lot more money from the men even though they give less of a tip.
Actually it COULD be slightly embarrassing sometimes when you seen them rumaging about looking for loose change i used to sometimes just think oh spare me the embarrasment of waiting about like a child waits for pocket money- i know that sounds ungrateful but this is the way to do it;
price of haircut say?; £6.50 then if you want to tip it doesnt have to be ROUNDED UP we know there is a credit crunch, just give £10 and say something like keep urself £1 for your service/ great service,(so you still get most your change back) then we know its because its a job well done- not because you feel you have to!

*i usually tip; taxi drivers £2
pizza delivery guy the same, restaurants £2.50-£5 depends on service.
*And you should always tip at christmas even in the form of a cheap bottle of plonk- its a goodwill thing.

I don't tip. Cut with creative director is over £70 and highlights £100 for half a head. I can't tip just a fiver on that bill, it has to be a tenner apiece to stylist and colourist or not worth doing at all. When I used to have a £40+ hair cut ten years ago, I would tip a fiver. I would tip on a lower bill but it's just too pricey. I always tip a cabbie and obviously waiting staff.

Bottle at Christmas though!

Actually one place i worked as a 'junior'(which might i add involved alot more graft than the stylists/owners)tips would all get put in the one pot and at the end of the day it would be shared out VERY unfairly ie; 40% each to both stylists and 10% each to both juniors (even if customers specified'its just for you')it was like theiving after you watched the 'stylists' smoking/laughing/drinking tea out the back as us 'juniors' would be scrubbing salon top to bottom, actually talking to the ladies out on salon floor, washing/blow-drying thier hair etc then the stylist would come out snip away at the hair then go back to her coffee/fag break and we would finish customers' hair off too. then the stylists would basicly rob us!! i know i'm ranting now but i hated that place and to think i'm a much better stylist now than they ever were-cows!

omg basana i wouldnt give a tip to someone after just paying that for my hair neither! do you realize how much products cost? certainly not £100.
actually my sister had her hair done at toni and guy-paid a fortune then got home and asked me to 'fix' it lol!!

i totally agree hairdressing prices are way too high these days, i'm lucky to have a few decent hairdresser friends who just trim mine and i dont get mine dyed neither, i would- as i have seen some fab colours- but not in the middle of a credit crunch,i'm lucky enough to have a nice natural colour.

Don't tip, ever - so pleased to see I'm not alone.

Do you think hairdressers expect it?

I thought most people did so always find it a bit embarassing when I don't.

I find it stressful enough paying for cut + colour.

I can't afford the prices they charge anymore.

I cut the girls' hair, too.

It's just too much money, much less a tip.

I generally don't tip because the reason tips were given was because people were paid poorly and the tips made up their wages. Now with the minimum wage, whilst I know it isn't much, why would you tip a waitress when you wouldn't tip the checkout staff at Tesco/ Asda/ Marks and Sparks?

Also, having been a waitress, often the staff to whom the tip is being given don't see it (managers keep it or it is pooled and divvied up.......

Weemee - wonderfully summed up.

To FattyArbuckel - you sound about 10 years old. How old are you?

quote "I find it mean not to tip and would never eat in a restaurant with someone who refused to tip on principle. TBH I wouldn't even be friends with people who don't tip.