How much do you spend on your hair a year?

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We were doing a family budget and my biggest and really only personal expense is my hair. I think I am well within the national average for a 47 year old woman, DH thinks it's ludicrous (even though he spends equally on trainers and clothes). So how much a year does your crowning glory set you back?

Thank you for reply. When I see my hairdresser Nov/Dec, I will ask for some nice "bouncy" cut, but at the moment I would like to get rid of half inch of dry ends and not fancy paying £30. I'm saving money, so I have to be really frugal 😂

I get half head highlights 4 times a year and including cuts it costs me 250.

At the hairdresser's? Maybe 100.

Including all shampoos, homedyes etc.? I don't know, another 200?

Bleh. Autocorrect threw that rouge apostrophe in there 🤦‍♀️

If we're talking trips to the hairdresser, I go twice a year. Once for a cut and balayage, and then again about 6 months later for just a cut. Costs me around £150-160 total. I have long hair so find I don't need it cut very often to keep the style.

Otherwise my expenses are shampoo, conditioner, hairspray and dry shampoo. Maybe another £50/year?

I dye it at home and never go to a hair dresser. So each dyd is about £7 and I do it about every 6 weeks so about £60 a year. I do buy standard shampoo and sometimes use conditioner which is used by the family so that would need to be added on.

Your hairdresser is an idiot and should learn that those kind of views are outdated and unwelcome.

I'm thinking from this thread that maybe I should spend MORE. Never spent much on myself, maybe it's time to start? For instance, does the Olaplex mentioned work well? I have products in the cupboard but no 'miracle' stuff - are there any? Must find a decent hairdresser too, but how?

About £40.

I have a close family member who is a hairdresser, so he cuts my hair and does my balayage for free a few times a year.

I do a root smudge refresh myself with box dye every few months & I buy a decent hair serum that lasts me most of the year.

I am over 60 and still have a professional job. Whilst I hate the sentiment behind what I'm about to say and that it seems to work in reverse for men, I think the small proportionate investment in my hair to combat grey is worth it in the context of professional integrity. £120pcm.

To work so hard to become a professional and then feel you have to primp for your career is depressing.

@5zeds where do you separate the job from the me?

@MercuryOnTheRise remove all props what’s left is you. Stranded on a dessert island or struck deaf and blind, still you. Imprisoned or bankrupted, still you.

Colour every 6 months £70 approx
Dry cut every 3 months is £20, so total of £220 a year

What you do, say, produce, compared with what you look like.

Unless you're a model, actor or similar, an expensive hair cut and colour is irrelevant.

If you're talking about looking clean and tidy and 'not grey' an expensive salon cut and colour achieves nothing more than a basic cut and a home box dye, that probably costs under a third of your £120 pm, does.

You may 'feel' better and enjoy the experience, but you're kidding yourself to claim that you 'have' to have a high end hair cut in the world of work.

Stranded on a dessert island

My kind of place.

£50 (unless she’s put her cut-and-blow-dry price up since last year), not including SLS-free shampoo and conditioner.

Probably about £250 - I have naturally very curly hair which I wear long, so two trims a year with a curl specialist @ £80 and products.

£216

Wash, cut & blow-dry every 8 weeks at £36 pounds a time

Once I gave up the wash, cut, colour & blow-dry every 4 weeks at £96 a time I started to save a lot of money - embraced the grey

One of my prime motivations in life is to earn my own money and have noone with a say in how I spend it.

Working out ok

Though as it happens, he loves to see my hair freshly blow dried. I'm a bit of a scruff otherwise ...

@MercuryOnTheRise

small proportionate investment in my hair to combat grey is worth it in

Also corporate role, though clothing much more casual these days compared to when I started.

Started having low lights in my hair when I first spotted greying at the temples. I hate seeing roots showing through so decided that lowlights would be the way to cheat the greys.

Imaging my surprise thirty years later during lockdown I just left my hair only to discover that it grew out pretty dark in contrast to the blond streaks I had been having.

I don't do make up at work these days and thing that glossy bouncy blow dry is a good look as an over sixty amongst the twelve year olds at work.

I've never actually worked this out so this is interesting. And I needed a calculator.
Firstly I'm in the North West in a small town so this will skew the figures but I go to the hairdressers every 6 weeks. Sometimes extra visits. So probably visit about 10 times a year.

I pay either £45 or £60 as I alternate between full head of colour and T highlights. Including cut and blow / curl.

Sometimes I have something different which is extra eg a restyle or a conditioning treatment so I would guess I pay about £600 per year.

I also get gel polish every 3 weeks so that's about another £300 per year.

Probably£1k all in.

Approx £400
Cut and colour every 6 weeks plus a couple of bottles of Color obsessed shampoo... very short hair

About £800. X