To not tip my hairdresser?

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Had my hair cut and coloured recently. Really pleased with it and limed the lady who done it. Was i being unreasonable for not leaving a tip. I felt it was expensive enough (£85) but have been thinking since was i being mean?

So do you tip your dresser and if so, how much?

I don't tip people for doing their job. Do what you think is best.

I always give a £5 tip. I thought that was normal

I always tip but then my hair is cut/coloured/washed by a junior stylist and I doubt she gets paid a lot. It also means I get a good service - yes, I know I should get a good service regardless of tipping, but I have had far too many bad haircuts from can't be arsed hairdressers to get complacent about it. My face shape can basically only cope with 2 hairstyles - I have learnt this the hard way and at nearly 50 I don't want some 'creative' type thinking they know better and giving me the do from Hell, so yes, in part I am paying them for listening to me (it's astonishing how many don't).

I never tip. I pay £50 for my roots every 3 weeks, and my hairdresser obviously has far more disposable income than I do.

I get a 20% student discount. I split what I save between the hairdresser and the girl that washes my hair.

I don't tip. My haircut costs £50 for a basic cut and it takes her 35 mins. That is 3 times the hourly rate that I earn. She owns the salon and lives near me, in a house 3 times bigger than mine. I only go every 10-12 weeks as it is due to the cost.
However, i was in the week before xmas and everyone else was tipping at least a tenner, so I then felt mean when I didn't tip.

I always tip generously as I am pleased with the service and I enjoy the experience. But I don´t feel obliged to and wouldn´t think anyone was mean for not tipping.

I tip my hairdresser £3 for a haircut and blow dry which costs £38 and £5 for highlights and a cut and blow dry which costs around £80. Perhaps I should tip more for the highlights, but it already seems such a ridiculous amount to spend that I really begrudge spending more.

I was a bit annoyed time before last as I just had a haircut and didn't have change so asked her to give me change for a tenner. She gave me two fivers so I was forced to tip £5 which I felt was a bit sneaky of her.

Apropos men seem to be more generous, DS gets his hair cut at the barbers - a mans cut is £7 and when I was wating all the blokes rounded up to £10. But then I guess it's a lot cheaper to get your hair done as a bloke.

Cut and blow dry costs about £60 where I go and I tip £10. I factor it in to the cost of getting a haircut (which I do about twice a year!). I err on the side of tipping too much in general though, find it all very embarrassing and wish my hair could be cut by a robot.

I pay just over £100 for a half head of highlights and a cut and blow dry. I probably tip 3 out of every 4 times and when I don't it's because I've forgotten to get any cash out. I tip £5 which is only 5% I suppose but I think it's enough.

I tip 10%. I think it's a bit stingy not to!

Why is it stingy to pay the service price?

Do those who tip hairdressers due to low wages also tip other low waged people such as carers and shop assistants?

Why not?

Funny how people seem to think the stylists gets this money and a haircut is more than 3 times their wage, it's a bizzare concept!

I usually round up my top so I think I pay £48 so I give £50.

Also interesting about the chains, what do people say they wouldn't tip in a chain?

If you can afford it then you should tip imo. I accept people should be paid better by employers but they aren't and that won't be changed by tipping. We don't have the facility in place to tip other low paid people who don't do service jobs but I don't think that means those in service jobs should be punished.
There's no principle to be had here. It just makes the jobs of those on minimum wage a little easier when serving those who earn much more than them.

I find tipping in a salon so awkward. People say they tip the hair washer but are you fishing about in your bag for change when you've got wet hair and in a gown? I used to tip a few quid at the till, last time i was getting a colour it was £120 and it was good but i felt that was plenty so I didn't tip. When i get my friend who is a mobile hairdresser round I do always tip her but she hardly charges me anything.

I've recently changed hairdressers, in part because I had got myself in the situation of tipping around £8 each time I went and frankly it made an expensive trip even more expensive!
I've made a deliberate choice now not to tip and haven't done for the last 3 visits.
Tbh I felt uncomfortable tipping, & uncomfortable not tipping! But as we have additional expenses at the moment I can't easily afford these tips.

Tipping is to do with the service you have received not to do with the price you pay.

Saying £100 is enough isn't really how it works. It doesn't work like that in restaurants, well I ordered the most expensive steak so I won't tip.

To be honest if you begrudge paying £100 for your hair and think it's too expensive you need to find a hairdresser who will make you feel fabulous, so much so you will want to pay £100 plus tips.

But the service costs £100. Why should I pay more than the price?

I used to but not anymore. It's too expensive and I am sick of being ripped off ie charged 20% more because only the "creative director" is available at the time you want
Your hair cut. Yeah right.

I don't think hairdressers are particularly low paid either.

I've always tipped my hairdressers. Having trained and worked as a hairdresser when I left school I know how much it is appreciated.

I usually pay £10 for a dry cut which takes no longer than 15 minutes and tip £1 but my hairdresser of six years has recently gone on maternity leave and a new member of staff has taken over her client list. I don't feel entirely comfortable with the new stylist, and I'm not sure if she's working there on a rent-a-chair basis or what, but when I had my hair cut last week she charged me £15, so a 50% increase on what I usually pay even though she'd only charged me £10 four weeks before that. Being Christmas week and rushing here, there and everywhere I didn't think until I was well on my way home or I'd have questioned it. I must admit that it made me suspicious actually because she was the only member of staff in the salon at the time (which seemed a little too trusting of the owner as she's only worked there for a month) and I'm wondering if she charged me £15 but only put £10 through the till. I certainly won't tip her in future though, if I decide to carry on going to the salon.

I always tip £5, I go in looking like I've been dragged through a hedge and leave looking presentable, so maybe I'm just very grateful

I've always tipped hair dressers £5ish. Actual price anywhere between £30 and £40.

When I left school 20 years ago I trained to become a hairdresser - the wages then were shockingly low. The salon opened at 9am yet as a junior I would have to get there around an hour earlier to ensure the heating had worked (it often didn't) and to have a quick tidy round. Four days a week it'd be 8am til 6pm and one late night til 9pm. You'd get a lunch break but it wouldn't be an hour, you'd just shove food down your throat as quickly as you could and then you'd be back to work. It was also the responsibility of the junior/s to clean the salon from top to bottom, clean the kitchen and toilet, sweep up after cuts, ensure the hand towels were washed and dried (if no machines in salon you'd have to be running back and forth to the launderette) plus make tea/coffee for clients AND if they were in for any duration of time, go out to buy their lunch, top up their parking meter, entertain their child. For this I was paid £45 a week - for around 53hours this works out to 84p an hour. Obviously the minimum wage has kicked in now but trust me, juniors are the absolute dogs bodies of the salon so please tip them.