to not leave tips for haircuts that cost £42

[southeastastra]

i will usually leave a tip all the time £2 here and there and even up to a fiver for a particularly good cut

but i will not leave a tip for a cut that now costs £42 it's not unreasonable is it

I pay around the same for a haircut and usually tip £5 even though this does appear to offend my hairdresser. I'm not sure if it's offensive because it's a small amount or if I'm not supposed to tip at all, and I'm not brave enough to ask so I guess I will continue to offend with my tip. Or maybe change my hairdresser.

I don't tip hairdressers, there's no need. The juniors might be poorly paid, but then so am I, and I can't see any good reason why hairdressers or their juniors deserve a tip just for doing their job.

How much people have paid for a hairdo is irrelevant, and it's irrelevant whether people can afford a tip or not. It's the principle of tipping just for delivering the minimum standard expected of a service that I don't understand.

I never tip for a haircut. It costs me £35 a time for mine. My hairdresser doesn't mind at all.

I used to leave a tip and round up to the next £5 until a stylist told me if people were only going to tip small amounts she wishes they wouldn't bother.

I always always tip (restaurants, hairdressers, bin men at Christmas etc the service is awful ) £42 is the price that the company sets. It isn't what the hairdresser gets... And as cats says they don't get a lot of money.

I tip my hairdresser (£5 for a £25 cut), the taxi driver (usually 10-15%), waiters (15-20%) and the takeaway delivery driver (£1). I factor it into the cost. Bloody hard jobs if you ask me. I'd hate standing on my feet touching hair all day urgh and driving about (am a terrible driver). I value what they do for me. I sit on my arse in an office, doing something most people would hate to do, nobody tips me right enough but I'm comfortable, well paid for what I do and I'm working 9-5. The dream for many. So I can understand if others don't want to tip service workers particularly if they do similar jobs for similar or less money, but for me I'm just grateful.

*unless whoops x

40 quid is not that much round here for a haircut - you'd struggle to find one for less. I tip a few quid to whoever washes my hair, and a fiver to the hairdresser. I used to share a flat with a hairdresser and she relied on her tips. And I tip the takeaway driver.

But it's up to you. It's not right or wrong one way or the other. All this anecdotal evidence is all very well, but it's not a guide to what you should do.

People who tip the person who washes your hair...when do you do it? Do you stand up after the wash and hand them a pound immediately? Or do you leave it with whoever serves you at the cash desk? I've always felt too awkward to say here's a quid but it's not for you, it's for the one who washed my hair! But then it would seem awkward to hand it over at the sink too.

We value what our GPs do for us, the nurses who look after us or our children, the midwives that deliver our babies, the teacher that teach out children and the nursery nurses that care for then when they're little. I value the man that comes round and fixes my washing machine when it's broken, the gas man that fixes my heating, the bloke from the council that cuts the hedges that mean I can see out of my driveway safely. I could go on, but the point is that we don't and can't tip everyone that does something we value and appreciate, so what is it that makes hairdressers and waiters so much more worthy in some people minds?

Oh God I hate the hairdresser tipping. I know it's for the junior who makes nothing for washing your hair etc and I would happily do it but I ways seem to only pay by card and then I feel all weird about showing a quid or so over and saying 'erm... A tip?!'

I don't live in London, I have rubbish hair and I don't go anywhere swanky, although there are lots of swanky hairdressers nearby. When I go it's always me and DD and I pay 80+ quid and (apparently) the prices have just gone up. No colour, just a cut n blow dry.

And I always tip. It's got something to do with people who are paid badly, but that's another thread.

I dont ever tip.

I leave a tip for the junior.

How though?? See my earlier question at 22:58, how do you tip the junior?

You go over to her and put a couple of pounds in her hand, or tell the girl on the front desk to give it to her if she's not around.

See I think I'd feel mean leaving a tip with the person in the front desk but saying it's not for them, especially if they're the one who actually cut my hair.

I say here is a tip, ten for your junior and five for you, or the other way round. Thank you and see you next time.

So give it to someone else on the floor that isnt the stylist then.

I never tip anywhere other than in a restaurant.
I really hate the tipping culture.
Pay people a decent wage and expect decent standards.

I'm definitely of the mindset that I don't tip the hairdresser as my cuts/colours are extortionate and I think I'm already paying through the nose. But I do like the idea of tipping the junior if it weren't such a minefield of awkwardness!
I don't tip the waxers either but I do take them chocolates periodically.

I tip £5 for my and DD's combined £35 bill. It used to cost me the same for just me, so it's cheap for the two of us. And I've finally found someone who does exactly what I ask, instead of appearing to listen, nodding and then giving me the same haircut as everyone else.

I never tip and never see anyone tip.

i rarely tip. it drives me insane. it's for americans who earn two dollars an hour. we have minimum wage. the hair dressers and taxi drivers probably have more money than I do!

I pay by card too and tipping is a minefield - I can be between £90 and £200 and it feels stingy to push a fiver over - so I get stressed and don't bother. I reckon they'd prefer my custom to continue than me to drop them because it stresses me though.