AIBU to not tip my hairdresser?

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I have been going to her for years and always spend over £100 per visit (once every couple of months) but I never tip her. I think the hair cut is expensive enough let alone adding a tip! And I guess the standard is 10/15% which adds another £10-20 to the whole thing! But the lady before me tipped and now I feel bad for not......! What to do think?

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Seriously purple if tipping a fiver would leave you with out food, I definitely would not be splashing out on a hair do.

You don't have to save for a tip as well, and anyone who says you do is being ridiculous.
You pay for the haircut. The price it says. Anything else is up to you, whether you want to pay it or not.

Oh please people. If you are a tightwad don't wish to tip, then don't tip. Don't accuse people who do of being "weird' or seek to justify your choices by these feeble arguments.

It's not tight to not want to pay a hairdressers wage. We pay for our hair cut. Why should we feel forced to top up substandard wages as well?
If anyone's being tight, it's the employers. If you say that's how much something's going to cost, then that's how much it should cost.
Not "this much and then this much thrown in on top as well."
A lot of people are struggling at the moment. Why should they feel they have to pay extra because if they don't they get tightwad thrown back at them?
If you tip hairdressers, it makes common sense to tip everyone else who smiles at you and makes you feel good throughout the day as there is no difference.
Tip your child's teacher if they do a lovely job.
The chatty, helpful checkout girl scanning and whizzing your items through the checkout at Waitrose Tesco, or wherever. She's packing your bags as she goes along, she's going above and beyond and being helpful.
Why is she any less deserving just because she isn't tending to hair?
Strange how it's one rule for some professions, and none for another.

purple don't get ur hair cut if ur that skint. Having ur hair done is a luxury not an essential It's £18 for a wet cut FFS. How bloody patronising. Just because purple is on ESA that shouldn't prevent her from having a cheap haircut if she can't afford to tip.

omg so people cant have a haircut because they are to 'tight' to tip you are having a laugh honestly

A wash and cut where i live is over £35 i do tons of sport so skip the extra £20 blow dry on the grounds i will probably wash it again within 5 hours of cut. And i dont tip.

I didn't say I'd starve if I tipped, but obviously it would mean cutting out something else. I don't see why I should spend an additional 5% of my income on tipping someone I'm already paying for their services, when they have a considerably larger income than I do? My hairdresser is lovely and does a great job,but ultimately she is being paid for what she does, and any tips are a bonus. To be honest you can't win though - if I said I tipped everyone then other people would come on here and have a go at me for spending their taxes on tipping someone.

Yup, always tip. Cut and colour every 4 weeks £110 plus £10 for the girl who takes my colour off.

I do remember someone saying to me that hairdressers are taxed on an assumed amount of tips . Does anyone know whether this is true or an urban myth ?

Absolutely fucking ridiculous to suggest penguin and others in similar positions should not get their hair cut because they can't afford to give (an optional!!) tip! Fucking ridiculous. Get back to the real world, you know, the one where even the poor deserve to be allowed to look after their appearance. Christ alive.

Stuntgirl,

I was not suggesting that at all , I was just asking as a factual question are hairdressers taxed on a nominal amount of tips . I was not suggesting for a moment that haircuts were for the rich only .
Sorry if it came across badly

I don't think StuntGirl's response was meant for you Lavender. That wasn't how I read your post anyway. There were others on this thread who said I shouldn't get my hair cut because I can't afford to tip.

tips must legally be declared and are liable to tax, the tax people know that for various jobs tips make up a certain percentage of income so if a waitress/ hair dresser/taxi driver says they gets no tips on a tax return it will not be believed

the tax people will then use an estimated figure, if the actual figure is included and fits in with general industry norms it would generally not be questioned

I do not think anyone should forego using a hairdresser/ restaurant/taxi because they can not afford 10% over and above the stated price

at one time tips could be included to pay minimum wage that is now illegal it must be min wage plus tips ( I do know that the law might not be kept) but that is not the consumers responsibilty

there are many other people in min wage jobs that will never ever get tipped

Yanbu.I used to tip 10%. But then I realised how daylight robbery was occurring every time I went to the hairdressers, £130 or so for cut and colour every 8 weeks. So I stopped the colour and just get it cut every three or four months.

I'd rather spend the tip on dc, unless hairdresser has done a really great job.

I only tip at Christmas. It's more to do never having cash on me so not wanting the pressure of being consistent each month eg if left to my own devices they could get £5 one month and 70p the next!!!!!!

Bloody hell, I thought there was a recession on! Three figures for a haircut! I must be really out-of-touch!

No tipping at the hairdresser, but then, I dream of going to the hairdresser.

lol (Of course, if you can afford it, fair enough!)

I don't see what the problem is.. if you don't want to tip..don't tip and if you want to do it. I like to so I do. I don't seek personal justification if I do or don't.
My point wasn't if you can't afford to tip don't get your hair done (don't get hysterical) my point was that if five pounds would seriously effect your income for the week I would reconsider the whole thing.
By the way .. a tip can be as little as you want it, 50p a pound, what ever..just don't see what the problem is.

I don't see what the problem is.. if you don't want to tip..don't tip and if you want to do it. I like to so I do. I don't seek personal justification if I do or don't.
My point wasn't if you can't afford to tip don't get your hair done (don't get hysterical) my point was that if five pounds would seriously effect your income for the week I would reconsider the whole thing.
By the way .. a tip can be as little as you want it, 50p a pound, what ever..just don't see what the problem is.

Ooops crappy phone. Maybe I should tip 02 then I could have up grade

There isn't a problem - I don't tip and don't intend to. If I pay my £85for my hair, by card, it would be insulting to hand 50p as the tip! I couldn't make it less than a fiver. It seems a bit silly to then go around the supermarket getting 2p or 3p off things if I am prepared to pay £5 on top of what is a steep price to begin with. I don't mind others tipping.

Glad to see this thread - I have been going to my hairdresser for about 5 years and only tip at Xmas. I have been feeling guilty in case I was an exception, but like some others on here I spend over £100 each time. My hairdresser is a senior stylist in central London salon so I think she does ok, and might be patronising of me to slip her 20 quid!

I have never known anyone to leave a fiver tip for a haircut in rl.Its nearly an hours wage for a lot of the population. I dont think the people doing this are representative of the vast majority of the population.

I always tip for a service where the persons wages have been adjusted for tips. I suppose my view stems before minimum wage was introduced and staff would literal earn just tips plus a £1 or so in actual wages.

I am genuinely surprised how many people don't tip.

They will continue getting rotten pay while they are expected to get tips. The whole system is mad anyway - I had a holiday job once in a hotel and waitresses got tips- I was a chambermaid and got half a bottle of shampoo in an entire summer ( not a sort I used). We had the same wages.

I think YABU, most hairdressers don't own the shop they work in and are paid super low wages, if you are paying over £100 for a haircut, an extra couple of quid isn't going to break the bank. The more you give, the more you get and so on an so forth!