To not tip the hairdresser?

[laurag33x]

Always an awkward thing for me.
I'm at the hairdressers every 7 weeks and it costs £120 for cut and colour.
It's a big hairdressers with about 12 stylists and is a chain salon.
Aibu not to tip?

"If You can afford to chuck a tenner at the stylist"

There's no way I'd be leaving anyone a tenner tip. Two pound is all I leave.

Mine costs £60 and I don't tip. Every few appointments I'll take chocolates / biscuits in and tub of quality street / bottle of wine at Christmas

No, used to tip but not any more, Very old fashioned. I do tip the bin men and the postmen at Christmas

Now I am thinking I am seeing myself off! I was brought up in the US and as such tip for everything. Hair normally £10 for a £60 cut and colour but give half to the trainee, I do my own nails and beauty treatments, eating out 10 - 20% of total bill depending on service, take away delivery drivers, postman postpeople or whatever they are called now and refuse collection at Christmas, taxis... Thinking I could save myself some money here! It's just something I have been brought up to do. If I couldn't afford to then that's a different matter entirely. I most definitely wouldn't be tipping if I was struggling to pay bills and feed the family.

I've always tipped, I actually go out of my way to ensure I've got change on me because I'll pay for my cut on card.
I'll tip £2 for DS's cut, £3-£4 for my cut and £5-£6 if I've had a colour... tipping is ingrained in me though from DM and I don't actually think it's necessary because they're already being paid to do their job anyway, but it's just something I can't not do though 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bloody hell you lot are a load of tight fisted gets! Of course you tip your hairdresser and the person who washes your hair and your manicurist, esthetician's, taxi drivers, servers etc. were you all raised by wolves?!

No, I wasn't raised by wolves. I am skint though and don't like the idea of paying someone extra on top of what they've already charged for the service they've provided, the price of which already includes their wages.

It's all theoretical in my case anyway because I don't visit a beautician or nail person ever, the last time I had a haircut was 2+ years ago, I haven't been out for a meal in ages and I don't use taxis as I have a car.

@KeptTheBeachesShipwreckFree exactly, I’d rather spend my spare money on my kids than hand it out to people who are already being paid to do their job.

I never tip. You are being paid to do a service. Whether you're being paid peanuts or not is your own business and it's not my responsibility to top up your wages.

@Summerisdone I’m interested, how much do you estimate all that tipping costs you over the course of a year?

I tip £10 for a £45 haircut. £5 for my beautician when I get my nails and brows done.

I'm extremely lucky to have a hairdresser who comes to my home (she is in salon during day and has a few homers evenings and weekends). She has become a friend now and won't take a tip but I give her huge veg boxes (farmer). She says lots of salon customers don't tip but most homers do

@Guineapiglet345 probably around £10 in tips over the year for DS's cuts as he goes every 2-3 months, and maybe up to £15 over the year for my own hair because I rarely go, on average I'll have a cut and colour once a year and just a cut another time... this is because I can't really afford to go much, so it does seem silly that I'm paying tips when I've not got much myself, but I still can't bring myself to not tip them

Occasionally I tell mine to keep the change but that's usually a quid or 2. Never occurred to me that I should tip.

I don't tip. Then again I look after people's children, some who see me more than their parents and I don't get tipped why should the hairdresser get a tip?

I don’t tip. Also apprentices don’t get paid well but I don’t tip either. Do you tip the student nurse who lovingly looked after your mother. She doesn’t get paid anything.

I'm just amazed at how much some people spend on hairdressers in the course of a year!

For those who don’t tip, do you get embarrassed when eating out with those who do? Only I always find it excruciating when you’re out in a group and someone doesn’t pitch in for the tip 🙈

Brace yourself @GladAllOver because I spend £170 every three months or so on a cut and full head of high and lowlights. ( central London).

I always tip her £10 - more at Christmas- because she's amazing.

She's rescued my hair over the past 18 months and she will always find room for me by moving other clients around or seeing me late or early. It's a pleasure to have my hair done now and I feel about 500 percent better than I used to.

I work in an industry where I don't get tips which doesn't bother me in the slightest, but then I like to spread the love - I tip taxi drivers, baristas, bin men, my postman, I take chocolates and wine to shops I use regularly. I can afford to, even though I don't earn tons I like to treat people, and this seems a form of that.

@pachy not at all! I think they are the mugs for paying twice...

@Pachyderm1 no because I’ve been a waitress and I’ve worked behind a bar and the vast majority of people don’t tip, there’s no need at all to be embarrassed.

I don't tip hairdresser but always in a restaurant - hospitality staff earn rubbish money.

I tip in restaurants, although if the service is particularly bad I won't. I'm not tipping someone if they were rude or unhelpful.

I have a couple of friends who spent many years working in the hospitality industry, and they don't tip in restaurants at all because they say that most of the time the money just goes into the coffers with the takings, it's not as if you tip that nice waitress Sally and Sally gets to keep it.

Although they did say that sometimes it is split between the frontline staff. But they said in their experience it more likely lines the pockets of the owner...

I was a waitress for years too and I definitely thought the non-tippers had something to embarrassed about