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?

@Pachyderm1 why? Because they didn’t give you their hard earned cash? It’s the employers who don’t pay fair wages that ought to be embarrassed.

My hairdresser is my mate and refuses to charge me so she gets a bottle of wine every time 😂
I hate going to salons, always feel out of place and under the spotlight so thank god for my mate!

I was not raised by wolves.
I don't tip my hairdresser. She's the same age as me, drives a better car and has a great lifestyle. Clearly she earns enough.

I work or and been with my hairdresser years... He charges £45 for max 1hour Inc washing,drying,paying and out of door...I space my apps longer than I would like to pay to have my hair cut by him but what his hourly rate works out at meansI don't tip.

Token gift at a Christmas,yes.

Wow! Of course you tip.... you don’t hand the money to the stylist you give it to the receptionist ( if that’s the person who’s processed the payment) and they have a system of keeping all the money - typically lots of little envelopes. This has been the system in most salons I’ve been to. You also tip in restaurants and I would expect it to be between 12 and 15% - I would be embarrassed to leave and not tip ( unless service was appalling).

I don't tip anyone unless I'm in the USA then I tip everyone.

those who tip the juniors, How do you hand it over when they're busy washing someone else's hair?

Or do you stand there at reception like great aunt Mabel going "now that's for the girl who washed my hair and that's for the one who made my tea"

Argh it's all so embarrassing.

I give my stylist a fiver and my colourist a fiver and that's mega awkward...

Never tip, it’s their job and they’re well paid!

unless they’re head stylist or the salon owner they’re usually paid peanuts!

Where are you in the world that this exists? 95% of hairdressers in my area of the UK are on rent-a-chair basis, as am I as a MUA. So many of them are really well off, the salon owners simply take their rent and anything else earned is for the stylist to keep.

Absolutely a personal choice,there is no rule you have to or that you cannot.
Simple.😉

I haven't tipped a hairdresser for many, many years. Goodness me; they do their job and charge what I consider to be a high price.

See treacle that's why I get torn about tipping in some restaurants now - it always went to the person who actually waited on your table. Now I feel like it's just an added cost onto the top of the meal that either gets split between everyone so your waiter get 50p from the £5 you leave if they're lucky or it just goes to the restaurant who then pays them the same they would have got. I'm not tight but it really annoys me.

I don't tip. It's completely ridiculous. I work in a hospital and no one tips me. I certainly work above beyond what I'm expected to and the pay is crap. No one tips me!

And as for people offering a personal service - what about care staff washing and toileting people? No one tips them!

Exactly January we don’t go around tipping nurses, care workers, shop assistants... why hairdressers?

I've never tipped at hairdressers

I’m changing to not tipping now after reading this thread - hairdressing visits are so expensive now and my hairdresser certainly earns way more than me.

Can you imagine tipping the nurse after she's done your smear test?

All shades of awkward.