To ask how much you spend on grooming/maintenance?

[Spice22]

Hello all,

I was going to ask on Style&Beauty but figured the responses there would be quite skewed and so I came here where there would be unbiased responses and traffic.

At the train station yesterday I saw this young lady who looked very well put together. Her outfit was coordinated, nails done, eyebrows done, makeup done but not overly so. The thing that stood out the most though , was her hair. It looked lovely ; highlights and nice cut (ha can't explain well enough) and she just looked like someone who took pride of the way she looks. I've since spoken to my friend about this and the possible cost of such upkeep. That got me wondering how much others here spend on their grooming and upkeep.

Clothes; Makeup; Nails; Hair; Eyebrows; Eyelashes; you get the jist !

I do tend to "trim" bikini line sometimes and a pedicure I actually prefer to do myself (and am better at it sometimes!). My friend and I were only the other day bemoaning that our last best and most perfect manis and pedis were in France (rural town) as I personally think the French do them better! They weren't expensive either, normal price.

katelocks that is £16k a year and you haven't mentioned clothes [faints]

I'm going to show DH this thread!

I started keeping a detailed budget so I know exactly what I spend now!

Hairdresser - £1500 (colour every 4 weeks, and 4 cuts a year)
Perfume - £200
Makeup/Skincare Products - £980
Medical Pedicures - £255 (3 per year)
Brow Shaping - £105 (3 per year)
Clothing & Shoes - £3,600
Specialist Dental (whitening) - £300
Total: £6,940

Cut and blowdry every 12 weeks £32
Colour and cut every 12 weeks £67
Nails - never
Brows - tweezers myself
lashes -- never
Facials - never had one
Wax (ouch) - never use a home epilator
Makeup - occasionally (haven't spent anything in > 1 year)
Tans - never
Clothes - varies, probably

Haircut every six or eight weeks, £20.

I bought some tweezers about 15 years ago, they are still going strong.

Nothing else apart from routine toiletries such as shampoo, soap and toothpaste. I'm tidy and clean, people frequently comment on how smiley I am - I'd much rather have that than a load of makeup. (Never worn any, not even on my marriage day).

Hair - cut probably once a year (£60). Trim it myself in between.
Dye it at home 4x per year = £20
Alternate between expensive salon shampoos (£15 a bottle) and £1 shop stuff.
I do use Kerastase heat protector though (£20ish)
Probably buy a new tool each couple of years. Last year got the Babyliss Big Hair. Before that I got the SteamPod.

Skincare - just use face wash from Boots (£3 per tube) and regular moisturiser - currently using some Dove face cream from the £1 shop.

Make up is just Rimmel etc. Doubt I spend more than £100 a year.

Teeth whitening - after the initial treatment I just buy top up gel for about £50 once a year or so.

Perfume I don't buy I normally ask for it for birthday.

Spent £500 last year having some moles removed. That's a bit of a one-off though.

Clothes - last year I added it up and it worked out around £1200 so £100 per month. I like quality stuff but I'm pretty good at finding bargains (TK Maxx and EBay are my friends!)

I spend more on clothes for my hobbies but I haven't counted that here.

I still feel like a scruff half the time

Hair £50 every 6-7 weeks
Nails £17 every fortnight
Make up £100 a year I guess? Wear a full face of make up daily
Eyebrows 3 x year - £10 a time

Very little. I'm a sahp and much of my clothing is second-hand, or from the days when I used to work. I occasionally buy nail varnish, but I don't bother with make-up at the moment.
I cut and colour my own hair, so spend maybe £5 per month on colours.

Nothing.

32 year old University academic and mum to toddler traveling the world for conferences with no make up ever owned and hair brushed back and full of zing!!

Scary to work it out!
Clothes - every 3 or 4 months a splurge of £300/£400
Hair - 3 or 4 times a year at £100
Eyebrows & eyelashes at salon £50pm
Nails - £30pm
Waxing - £50pm
Make up & moisturisers etc £100 per year approx
Facials and massages a couple of times a year
Gym £80 pm

£55 haircut every 8 weeks
£10 home hair dye every 8 weeks
Clothes £50 a month?
Skincare products £10 a month

Had 1 manicure, 1 pedicure and I facial in my life....they were alright but didn't really make me think ooh I must have more.

I look alright I think, sometimes polished (ish) sometimes dragged through hedge......

Bite my nails, get my hair cut every 6 months by a neighbour (so get it cheap), dont wear make up and I'm fat so I don't buy new clothes just fatty leggings when the others get holey

That said I've spent about £100 on 3 pairs of shoes recently.

Hair £35 every 6 weeks
Nails £20 every 3 weeks
Make up very little as don't wear much
Perfume is my weakness - probably £200 a year
Clothes and shoes £100 a month
£25 a month for my gym membership

Haircut and highlights every 6 weeks - £80

Eyebrows waxed every 3 weeks - £8

I don't wear a lot of makeup. Just Chanel foundation and Lancôme mascara. I do like perfume.

But I'm not naturally attractive so I do have to be careful I look groomed.

Hair cut and colour every 4-5 weeks, £35. I can compromise on most things, but this is not negotiable.
Threading very 4 weeks, £15;
waxing every 8 weeks £20
I like Clarins products for my aging face, cleanser, serum, day cream and night cream, about 150 every 3-4 months. However, I only buy from the high street if a special offer is on - freebie products if you buy 3 products- and buy on line too if a good offer comes up
Make up, less than £50 per annum
Clothes very little, a few hundred a year
Gym membership, LA, 35 per month.

I get the occasional facial or massage too, so less than a couple of hundred per year.

Haircut 3 times a year £80. I'm going to have to start colouring it as getting greys, so that will go up.

Waxing -£200 a year.

Skincare - £100 a year, but I stock up whilst on offer so keeps costs low.

Make up £50-£100 a year.

Clothes - £600 a year, but more if I include birthday/Xmas money.

hair & wax £50 per month budgeted so £600
make up £10 a year (replacement eye shadow or liner)
skin care £120 a year
clothes maybe £500 a year?

Total maybe £1,300

Hair - £75 every 3 months, cheapish shampoo etc
Nails - paint my own 1-2 times a week, buy a new nail polish every couple of months? I have amassed a shoebox full
Makeup - probably spend £50 a month but just for fun (I have enough to last a couple of years already)
Skincare - £10 a month?
Waxing - never, just shave
Facials - hardly ever, random treat every couple of years
Clothes - budget is £200 a month absolute maximum (if I don't go out much) but trying to save this up for two Net a Porter sale splurges a year instead of a constant trickle of H&M and Topshop that ends up in the charity shop

Hair - £50 x5
Make up - £100
Waxing - £50 X 5
Clothes - £500
Shoes - £300

Hair, about £40, 4 times a year, £160 altogether.
Nails - nothing and they are a bit of a mess
Make-up, about £50 to £100 a year
Skincare, about £300 a year
Scent, my big extravagance, about £150 a year
Clothes, about £50 to £100 a month
I love expensive soap and bubble bath too.

I don't think you have to buy expensive makeup and skincare but I do like Boots Protect and Perfect which isn't cheap and is most of the £300 there.

Haircut: £50 x 2 a year
Make up: minimal. Maybe £50 total a year
Waxing including eyebrows: approx £40 a month so prob £500 a year
Almost never have nails done except a shellac for summer hols so £30 a year I think
Clothes I spend quite a bit but sell loads too
Never have massages/facials etc and my toiletries budget is included in the grocery shop! So whatever is cheap/on offer

My breakdown roughly:

• highlights and occasional cut - around £150 every 3 months
• nails £25 every 2 months
• foundation £45 every three months. Otherwise all my makeup and skin care is cheap Boots stuff (other than gifts).
• clothes probably £2,000 pa. not including shoes. Spend more on coats and jackets for quality and work clothes. But I generally buy inexpensive if nice looking shoes and boots.

I'm not super smart at all.

Hardly anything! I am cos I feel like I must be really tight fisted now but I also couldn't imagine spending such amounts on something I ultimately consider an annoyance (which probably says it all )

Hair - Actually I have no idea When I get a cut I think it's about €20? And in theory I go once every 2 months with DS and DH but they missed me out last time and they went late because we were skint so I'd say over the average of the last couple of years, about €40 a year. My shampoo lasts me ages but I couldn't tell you how long, I have no idea. I don't use conditioners or dye.
Clothes - Technically I have a budget of €50 a month but that's for the whole family plus house stuff, I rarely spend money on myself for clothes. Maybe €2-300 a year, absolute max? That would include shoes as well, I think.

I don't do: Waxing, make up, eyebrows (anything), skincare, facials, extra dental stuff, anything else.

So €300ish in a year?

I would like to increase my clothes/shoe budget but other than that not overly fussed.

Hair highlights monthly and cut every 3 months (hairdresser comes to me) - Do my own blow dries afterwards £70/ month
Nails gel every 3 weeks and pedicure every 8 weeks £70/ month
Make up one decent item/ month £30
Skin care products £20/month
Facials £100/year
Shoes & boots £50 month
Bags 2 good ones ( Hobbs or jaeger on sale) and one cheaper one (Oliver bonds) per year £350
Eyebrows and eyelashes & waxing £nil (not v hairy)
Gym at work and home £50/month
Clothes smart for professional job ( John Lewis, Hobbs) always on sale £200/month
Clothes casual & for going out (John Lewis, tk max) £100/ month
OMG ! That's a lot about £7.5 k/ year but I do cut corners by getting hair done at home and buying sale clothes. In contract when I was
divorcing 9 years ago - before I managed to land a well paying job I spent about £500 a year and had no luxuries. I bought supermarket cosmetics, coloured my own hair and only occasional clothes from Asda and the like with no gym and bad nails. Love that I can afford to be immaculately groomed now.

Hair- £25.00 from mobile John Oliver trained hairdresser every 6-8 weeks.

Eyebrows- £6.00 every month

Makeup- No idea, I spend a lot through the year I'm sure. I would guess £40 a month it averages out

Clothes- not much, I'm not a clothes person

Perfume- gulp

Creams, facial stuff, moisturisers etc- I don't even want to know.

Shoes and boots- I don't know, I love shoes and boots so too much probably