Is £32 too expensive...

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...for Shellac nails?

I only get them done once a month but I've just noticed the price has gone up from £30 to £32. I know it's only a couple of quid but it's just taken me out of my justifiable price bracket.

I'm fairly low maintenance in other beauty areas. Don't dye my hair, wear fairly inexpensive make up, but love the 'polishedness' of having my nails done.

So if you have your nails done, how much do you pay? And would £32 (with a complementary glass of fizz) be too much for you?

I pay £18 and includes fizz and biscuits/shortbread. £32 would be too much for me but if you enjoy the luxury and don't want to go anywhere else, there's your answer

I’m in South London and pay £29, £34 with a chrome finish so it seems a fair price to me. There are cheaper places around but nowhere else that does the same quality work and where I am confident everyone who works there is a willing, well paid employee.

I’ve had shellacs non stop for nearly three years and my nails are the strongest they have ever been.

I pay £16, but that doesn’t include removal. Love having my nails done!

Try Groupon or Wowcher for local offers. Whenever I need mine done for a special I assign that’s why I do. You can get it for £10-15 up north that way.

I used to pay £20 to £25 for gel nails. Unfortunately they only lasted a couple of days maybe a week if I was lucky. They’d always lift. Then I moved lady and she stated using something called ‘The Gel Bottle’ they are £28 but amazing. My Christmas set lasted 5 weeks not a lift or chip in sight and bar re growth would have lasted another couple or weeks. So no. Don’t think £32 is good value to two weeks, unless you’re in an expensive area.

I charge £27 for gel polish including removal of previous colour, £30 if I include IBX. Attitudes like some on this thread are partly why I'm currently looking for a permanent employed job . I'm mobile and self employed, I've paid literally thousands of pounds for my training, I use a gel polish that costs £18 per bottle. I pay tax and NI, liability insurance, pension contributions, my travel costs... If you include the parts of my job I can't charge for I'm lucky to get the minimum wage.

I've loved doing nails and it's been my career for 14 years but the 'I don't want to pay for a trained professional, I'm buying a lamp from ebay' is destroying my industry.

Too much for me! I get mine done on the Holloway Road in London for £20. If I got them done where I live (Crouch End, which is posher) then it'd be about £30, but I refuse to spend that much when I can take a bus ten minutes down the road and save a tenner!

Pay £10. They lady 2-3 weeks depending on what I've been doing in work. I used to pay £30 for acrylic with shellac. I suppose it depends where in the country you are. We're in Merseyside.

In the SE we pay £30 for SNS...

Im quite low maintenance, dye and cut my own hair, but when I used to get a gel manicure it was £20 and she came to my house.
I bought all the stuff and started doing it myself.
I've now qualified in gel manicure myself and charge £15. That's from home and mobile. If you come to me you get a cuppa, if I'm out I get one made for me. Win win.

My SIL charges her clients £20 for shellac nails. She's a trained nail tech and beautician.

She provides the same "experience" (a glass of Prosecco/hot drink, nail work, removal, lovely hand cream on afterwards) as the stupidly posh salon she used to work in. They charged £46 😨

I pay £32, with no glass of bubbly.... if it's your one treat, go with it, you are worth it.....

In Brighton I'd expect to pay £25-35 but now I'm in Yorkshire I'd expect to be under £25.

However I have now bought my own lamp and supplies and do them myself. Also means if I do get one break then I can just quickly redo it myself.

I pay between £32 - £35 for acrylics with whatever design i choose, ie sometimes I have a plain colour sometimes the French manicure look, sometimes a fancy design. With just complimentry tea or coffee NO FIZZ !! I'm North West.

I bought a lamp and do mine myself. It’s really easy.

Life is short. If you can afford it and you like to have them done then treat yourself . Cut back on sth else.

I pay £30 for hands AND toes. See if you can find someone who works from home - much cheaper.

I'm in Birmingham and where I go it's £20 for shellac/gel or £25 for removal of old product and then 're done. I like where I go aswell as they do it all by hand and don't ruin my nails with the drill

It's quite a lot. I go to someone who does a brilliant job for £25. I do think that's unusually reasonable though.

www.healthline.com/health-news/gel-manicure-increase-skin-cancer-risk#1

My friend does mine for £7.
The local salon for £20, which is too much for me.
I definitely wouldn’t pay £32 for nails.

I'm in the north west and pay £15 and that's including removal, in my local beauty salon.
She does a fabulous job :)

I get them done every 3 weeks and they last.

Sorry should have said that's for Shellac.

£20 - SE. London - includes soak off and full manicure. Cheap and cheerful local Vietnamese run salon. However, for luxury pampering and glass of bubbly, I don't think £32 is off the scale

However,

£26 every 2 weeks - how do you manage to make them last a month?