To tell my mum she's taking the piss?

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I'm a hairdresser who is currently on Mat leave. My mum meets up with her old university friends a couple of times a year and makes a night of it. She asked at the weekend could I do her hair and four of her friends hair for Tonight. I told her no problem but I will charge her friends but not salon price ( I always do my mums for free) she asked me do I know how much it would cost. I told her without exactly knowing what they want doing I wouldn't be able to give a price. She said she thinks majority will have a wash,cut and blow and maybe an updo. I told her call it £15.00 each then if they don't have updo £10. She said that's brilliant.
Now ive just recieved a text off my mum saying how excited her and her girls are to have a "pampering" with me and such a bargain for only £30.
I am so annoyed that my mums pulled this stunt. But now she's told her friends it's £30 collectively so I'm going to look a massive twat saying no it's £15 each if you have an updo!
Would IBU to tell her to piss off
She's due at 3 o'clock and I'm half tempted not too answer the door!!

OH KungFu your Mum has behaved terribly and so did her friend expecting you to squeeze her in for nothing,bloody cheek!

I'm glad you stood your ground and good for you telling your Mum your no longer do her hair for free.

Good for you! If your mum values your skills so little then you couldn't possibly inflict your second rate abilities on her in future could you?

Good for you.
Untill i was ill i'd do my mum and bm for free but they'd never dream of just bringing others with them!
Seriously hours of work for such a low quited price, excessive? Is she having a laugh?
Having a simple french plait is around £15-20 at my old hairdresses and that was without a wash and blowdry!

The cheek! I bet you felt awkward the whole evening too! Can't believe she still turned up with additional friend as well!
Well done for getting through the evening here's wine

Well done for standing your ground?

It's not like you hadn't warned her. She embarrassed herself.

distance I didn't think she was that cheeky, but DH just said she has took the piss a few times ringing friends unannounced - yeah they'd pay but I wasn't expecting them. And how she'd drop in last minute for a blow dry before heading out.
I didn't notice how frequent she did it until he just pointed it out. She'll apologise soon enough when she actually goes into a salon and sees their prices - she's had me doing it for nearly ten years

Yes,she is taking the piss

Wow - you Mum is being really unreasonable and cheeky.

Why should she expect you subsidize her divorcing friend when she wans't even paying for her own hair? She must know that you are not well off on ML.

If she really wanted her friend to get her hair done she should have paid the £10 or £15 herself. Totally out of order to blackmail you into giving your professional services for free when I bet they are going to spend more than £10-15 on their big night out,

Very sad that your mum did this to you. I'm ruddy glad I don't have a skill my mother can use, cos she would. It's such a shame she's been a bit of a cow, frankly.

I'm speechless at your mother's cheek. She embarrassed herself. Well done for standing your ground and not allowing to be treated with such disrespect.

Does she ever do you any favours (like babysitting) or is this strictly a one way street?

"She said I embarrassed her by not doing Mrs excessive rates hair, "

Why the bloody hell didn't she treat her friend then, especially as she was having her own hair done for nothing!

" Mrs Excessive rates huffed and puffed and said she won't have her hair done then and couldn't understand why I couldnt "squeeze" her in. "

And she should try paying a salon nothing!

Well done for standing up to her brass necked-ness.

I pay over £30 just for a cut!

I would refuse to do her hair again based on this. What a piss take! Your DH clearly had the measure of her a while ago. Glad he kept popping in with a happy baby.

Fuck me, it's wear and tear on your body she's paying for too not just your skills.

I'm training to be a nail tech, hints being dropped about doing a relatives nails who hates me! Wouldn't do them if she paid me double.

Good for you. Stick to it.

Good for you, KungFu.

Woe betide the person who invokes the wrath of their longstanding hairdresser😱
Mine does a great job with my hair I wouldnt dream of insulting her, a good hair cut is very important to me and worth paying a proper fee for😁

roasted this is my first baby so no baby sitting. Can't really think of anything she does that's an equal swap if that makes sense.
I'm quite surprised my dad hasn't text yet defending my mums honour. Ah well no more freebies for her

Well done you! If someone was nice enough to do my hair for £15 I'd snog them in gratitude. That's probably why nobody offers and why my hair looks shit...

Well done for sticking up for yourself!

You've been doing this FOR 10 YEARS?

Golly.

There's another thread right now about mate's rates for a cake. I think the same thing applies - it's one thing to give a little discount to friends & family. Being taken advantage of - and you are clearly being taken advantage of by your mother, who seems to be very keen on looking good to her friends - is something else entirely. And it's got to stop.

surely the whole 'mates rates' thing only works when it's a case of a favour for a favour?
ie bake me a cake and I'll do your hair
then again it gets complex, what is the exchange rate?
2 cakes = 1 cut and blow dry = half a tyre change
better to just pay the going rate surely?

Alpaca

Fucking hell what a bloody piss taker

Well done for sticking to your guns