How much do you spend on beauty treatments?

[Kiwiinparis]

Not an AIBU but I’m curious. How much do you ladies spend on beauty products a year? Including makeup, skincare, hair cuts/products, beauty treatments like facials, nails, waxing, Botox etc.

Hair's the big one for me: cut and colour (three colours through greying hair) £150. £1800 . But at nearly 62 and still in a professional job, I think it's worth it.

Make-up: No 7 foundation and concealer about £120.

Estee: mascara and lipstick: £100 (use the lippy as a blusher)

Facecream - No 7 when I remember and usually free gifts are sufficient but probably £25.

Pedicures: I treat myself to a new bottle of nail polish every year for about £7.

Perfume: £200 (my weakness)

I have never and would never have botox, gel nails, eyebrow threading, facials, massage, etc! I'm a believer in making the best of what you have.

About £2250! I thought I was quite frugal

Nails every other week - £30
Hair every 3 months - £140
Various The Ordinary products - probably about £50 twice a year

So about £750 + £420 + £100 = £1270 a year, give or take.

@Kiwiinparis

For those who do splurge a little. What do you think are the best treatments to invest in? Regular facials/Botox, regular hair cuts, nails or brows etc?

Brows & Lashes - semi permanent lash infills every 3 weeks

I have no idea.

I have a facial every 4 weeks which is £70.

Botox about 1x a year - £300

Haircut every 6 months - £150

Hollywood wax every 8 weeks or so - £25

Do my own nails. I’m actually low maintenance compared to my friends. I do spend a fortune on skin care and makeup though.

Cut and colour every so often, 6x £50
Once a year I might have a pedicure

£350 a year.

I spend quite a bit, but am fairly old and menopausal. After years of prioritising everyone else, it’s time for me. I’m learning to accept that spending on me is self care and not necessarily self indulgence.

Gym membership £30 pm.
PT sessions £100 pm.
Lashes and brows (my addiction as my own are incredibly short, stubby and invisibly blonde) £100 pm
Therapeutic massage every 6 weeks (I have RA and find them really beneficial, especially with all the exercise I do) so averages £35 pm.
Pedicure about 8 times per year so averages £20 pm.
Skincare - maybe averaging £5 a month?
Makeup - not a lot. It lasts ages, so maybe averaging £5 pm.
Hair - prob a few hundred a year for cuts and highlights. So average £25 pm?

So approx £350 pm but most of that is gym, PT and massage which I see as health rather than beauty. My lashes are my indulgence!

I can afford it and I’m worth it so I happily spend it!

Tbf sidge I've said I spend little but that's because I havent included gym.

I dont include exercise as part of a beauty regime, it's about being healthy.

@Kiwiinparis I think Botox, fillers, retinol and brows have made the most difference to me.

You need to be of an age that it's needed though, and it depends on your own individual skin Ect. That said I'm also of the opinion that it's horses for courses and not everybody needs them, it's down to the individual.

I forgot to add the cost of my brows on - I get them laminated ( since being peri menopausal the grow outwards ) every 8 weeks and dyed every 4 so it's about £55 every 2 months. Well worth it!

I decided to start treating myself better this year so l have started going to the hairdresser for a cut and colour and getting my eyes and eyelash waxed and tinted, l also started having my nails done but it’s not worth it with the job l do. I have just calculated it’s almost £800. I have just refreshed all my make up l think l might go back to my dry trims and box dyes, as that. Is £520 that’s my Christmas present budget.

Skincare £600 a year
Botox and lips £1k a year
Approx £1k everything else. I spend a lot of money to look this shit.

I love getting my nails done so probably have them done every 3 months when I can afford. Get my hair done maybe once a year. Get a massage naybe once every few years. If I wasn't poor I would get a facial and my eyelashes done

@Kiwiinparis

No not market research. just genuinely curious what others beauty budgets were and how mine stacked up against it!

I think all the replies basically demonstrate a 50/50 those who do a lot, and those who just do basic maintenance.

So those who do, you will fall within those spends, those that don't, your spend will be vast.

I am another non-spender. I don't have any beauty treatments. I have a hair cut 4 times a year, have stopped colouring since going white, and the white matched my highlights, so what's the point? I don't wear make-up. I use No7 creams.

Now, what I DO do, is go to a dermatologist a couple of times a year to check out and clear up moles, skin tags and sun keratosis etc. I have that sort of skin. So that could be counted as a beauty treatment, but I would probably put that under health. BUPA covers some, I cover the rest.

I don't even know how to count
The only thing I have done salon wise is hair, £60 twice a year for a curl by curl cut
BUT I spend lots on
Skin and me tretinoin prescription
Liberty beauty drop box £20
Makeup
Skincare
Perfume

I have loads so I don't actually buy much at the minute but then one month I might spend £150 on a perfume. I reckon it averages at £100pm

Every nine months dermal fillers. Approx. £350. Monthly skincare and make up c £50. Haircut £7.99 dry cut every two months at walk in unisex local barber owing to price hikes instead of £35 hair salon. Nothing wrong with it. Monthly massage for health reasons and manicure £42 in total.

I've started back at work post kids so now need a bit more time spent on myself. M and S advent calendar, home facials using Aldi stuff, bare minerals foundation. I work in a hotel and get a big discount on inhouse beauticians/ hairdressers. I got a really nice cut and blow dry for 20 quid yesterday :) first time someone other than me has cut my hair in 7 years.

@Kiwiinparis What is a spa membership! Sorry I’m not UK based…

Unlimited access to a spa, so hydrotherapy pools, sauna, steam, etc, with heavily discounted beauty and body treatments.

Foundation - £30×2=£60
Concealer - £21×2=£42
Mascara - £7×4=£28
Lipstick- roughly £40
Face wash - £40
Eye pencil - £15
Nail polish - £100 - cannot justify spending £50/£60 a month on shellac.
Total
£325

Well under £100 a year.
Shampoo, conditioner, facial cleanser, exfoliator, moisturiser. I cut my own hair and no longer colour it (embraced the grey). I don't like make-up so very rarely wear it. Protein varnish for my nails, rarely add colour. No way would I have botox, I like my expressionate face.

Hair, maybe £150 a year.

Waxing, nails, beauty treatments, spa days etc etc £0. Not my thing at all. Botox, Cosmetic surgery etc? You must be joking!

My idea of treats & pampering is a holiday to somewhere interesting with a great local foodie culture, eg the Basque Country, Provence. Each to their own.

Oh and I shave my legs etc occasionally, maybe 4 blades a year.

I don't buy much makeup - the lock down and not having an office job and I can't be bothered unless going in to town or out for the evening, so let's say £50/year. I use whatever moisturiser is on sale, could be No7, Nivea, L'Oréal. A £12 jar lasts about a month or more. I use Nivea Q10 body lotion, again £6/month or more. I shave with cheap razors when I can be bothered.
I love facials, and get one every 6-8 weeks - £50-60. Pedicures too - £35. Haircut £75 inc tip every three months. I colour my own hair do £6 every couple months. So adding that up: £250 approx on product and £1000 annually on treatments.

hair - £25-£30 every 12 weeks
manicure - £5 fortnightly
products - probably averages £15 a month

occasional massage/facial - £200 a year avg

I get my feet done about 6 times a year, £120. I get hair cut twice a year £50. I buy the off lippy stick or mascara and moisturizer £100. I would say an odd face mask or hot oil hair conditioner so about £300 each year for everything.

I'm low maintenance. I do my own nails, went for a manicure once years ago and was really annoyed that I'd spent money on something I could do better myself.
Haircut once a year 50€.
Various face creams etc. about 300€ a year.
I'd love to have a weekly massage but can't afford it unfortunately.

@Kiwiinparis

For those who do splurge a little. What do you think are the best treatments to invest in? Regular facials/Botox, regular hair cuts, nails or brows etc?

Tweakments like botox and hair. Topical skin treatments don't make a dramatic difference no matter how much you pay. Coconut oil and Aldi caviar cream make my skin like velvet, and retinol from The Ordinary is as good as the expensive serums. Cheap make up does the job if the underlying skin is in good condition and wrinkles under control from botox. I wouldn't spend money on nails as pretty as they are, they're not high impact in the way great hair is.