How much do you tip a hair stylist!

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As above. Posting here for traffic. Do you tip a hair stylist?

I have no about salon etiquette. Growing up I never went to the salon. My mother had her hair dresser friend come over to the house to do all our hair. I’ve only been to the salon a few times as I’m really nervous about. I have tipped before. For instance if a hair cut is £45. I’ll give them £50. £5 as a tip. Enough?

Limited budget here at the minute too.

I just have no idea 🤭

Hair colour all over -£47 every couple of years , £4 tip
Hair colour regrowth -£30 every 5 weeks, £3 tip.
Fringe trim, free -£3 tip although I do try and coincide some of these with the hair colour.
Hair cut -£40 approx every 8 weeks, £3 to £4 tip.

I have stopped tipping hairdressers altogether

My haircut is £49 and I always give a cash tip of £5 to the stylist (who is also the owner). I never tip the girl who washes my hair.

I haven't tipped for the past 5 years. It is so liberating, none of that awkwardness, and I have saved loads. My haircuts are pricey, 10-15% on top of that is ridiculous.

I never tip hardressers

I am also yet to find a hairdresser who doesn't leave a massive halo of colour on my forehead after a colour.

I don't tip my hairdresser. I'm already paying £75 for a cut and blow dry! Then however much for whatever colour service I am having.

Tipping is odd in a country with a minimum wage. Theres millions of people that earn minimum wage, and offer a service but don't get tipped. Only some services are tip worthy seemingly

Mine is always happy to do a free fringe trim but I find it hard to accept so happily give a fiver for it.

This has always caused me a lot of embarrassment. At middle age I’ve finally got 1 hairdresser I go to and 1 nail place and I give them a £10 tip at Christmas and kind of feel now that that’s an ok routine!

Trim (straight across the ends) and colour is £170. I don't feel bad about not tipping, especially after a couple of hours listening to the hairdresser describe his latest car/holiday/fancy nights out. To be fair, he never looks expectant though I see others pressing notes into his hand.

I never really know but I do tip a small amount. Where I go has those small IKEA wooden drawers on the cash desk. Each team member including the owner has their own so you put the tip in there. There is also one for "Team" and another for a charity they support.

I never tip. This is not America.

Nowt! A hair cut is £45/50 quid where I am and basic colour another £50 with the same stylist... the place I go to the hairdressers are self employed and keep the cash then pay the salon owner a cut so they are getting most of the money.

Hello, i am a hairdresser in a small salon :)

We definitely appreciate tips but do not expect them. Wrt pricing it’s a fine line between making a decent living vs having prices that put people off - in local fb groups i have seen people huffing that they think £40 - £50 for a wash cut dry is excessive for roughly an hour’s service; i imagine they think the stylist keeps all that and do not take into account the fact that we need to buy and maintain all our own equipment and products, pay chair rental (or overheads if salon owner), professional indemnity insurance, plus pay for all our continuing professional development (i am taking a creative colour course next month which cost £250; i’m a single parent in receipt of in work benefits just to put that in context - i also obvs need to get myself there and back and feed myself, i’ll have a 6.30 start for the train on my day off and i’ve had to organise childcare etc. Obviously enhanced skills are an investment in my future and earning power but we’re talking extremely long term before the outlay is recouped). Our job is physically and mentally exhausting and if things run behind eg if a client is late or whatever, we often skip breaks and meals. Yes yes i know we shouldn’t but can anyone remember the last time a stylist left them sat with wet hair or roots half on for 15 mins while she took her scheduled break? In short as a job it frequently has all the downsides of being self employed but with a take home of not much more than min wage. When talking about tipping hairdressers people often like to draw parallels with well you don’t tip the checkout woman or whatever but i would argue that hairdressing is a skilled profession so this analogy falls down.

I do know other people work hard, pay for training, go without breaks etc, i’m not saying they don’t, i’m just giving people something to consider when thinking about where their money goes when they pay hairdressers.

What’s the usual amount Madame?

Do you tip at large franchise salons like Toni and Guy? I never tip and have never noticed anyone else tipping at the tills there either.

The amount depends on the service, the person, whether they have change. I’ve had people give us cash ranging from a couple of quid to £30, depending on the service, i’ve also had people ask me to put a higher amount in the card machine (fyi anyone who feels self conscious or doesn’t have change or cash, asking to stick a fiver or tenner extra on the card payment is absolutely fine and nothing to feel awkward about ); i’ve had tips from people of all income brackets ranging from students to solicitors. We pool all our tips and use them for getting a quick lunch or a naice coffee/bun from the cafe next door, which is always welcome on those days when it’s back to back clients, phone never stops ringing and everything goes wrong. We also use them in circs such as: say your next client is on time but the previous client is overrunning, we will then say to the client who’s having to wait through no fault of their own oh let us get you something from the cafe and use our tip fund for that (obviously we have tea/coffee in for clients but we have a teeny tiny kitchen area so it’s just instant coffee and builder’s tea). So it all kind of just greases the wheels and makes work a nicer place to be for us and the clients.

Jeez my paragraphs are running away with me i’m sorry

I occasionally tip £5

Tip fund also buys lunch when we do things like go on training days or to trade shows, days when we’ve either lost our day off or had to close the books so we can do essential stuff

I tip £3 but I've noticed since my salon has had its latest price rise, I'm one of the few who still leaves a tip.

Bloody hell some people's hair cuts are expensive!

I don't tip the hairdresser, I'm not sure why people feel the need to.

I don't tip.

I usually give my stylist £5 after my cut and colouring which is usually around £70.

I never even knew that people tipped their hairdressers until i saw a thread on here a couple of months ago, I asked around friends/work colleagues and none of them had ever heard of tipping your hairdresser - is it a regional thing or are we all just not brought up properly?? We are West Midlands. Come to think of it, my hairdresser doesnt have a tip jar or even an option to tip on the card machine so not even sure how i'd go about doing so. Totally mortified reading this, I always tip in restaurants so thought i'd got the rules right.