How much do you spend on your hair a year?

[badbaduncle]

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?

I just worked out I spend about £780 in hairdressers no idea on products but I am afraid I buy more than I use.

Cuts: £0
Styling: £2-£4
Washing: £10 approx for shampoo and conditioner, lasts around 4 months so around £30 per year.

Totals: £34 per year, give or take,

I cut my own hair, I don’t dye it, I keep a wee bottle of hairspray on hand for flyaways if required but not used regularly…that’s pretty much it. It’s just stuff that grows on my head. I’m not really all that interested in making it part of my ‘thing’. So it’s cheap and easy!

2 haircuts a year - £30 each
Shampoo bottle every 6 weeks or so - £5 each

Around the £100 mark

£73 a time for a cut, which happens maybe six or seven times a year. So about £500 I guess. Inexpensive shampoo, and I don't use other products. It does seem a lot, but zero expenditure on make-up, perfume, beauty treatments, etc. etc.

I just calculated my total makeup and skincare spending from august 2021 to august 2022 and I realized its much less than £700. Its around £510... I guess its because everyone knows 'makeup' is my thing so I usually get it as presents!

Perhaps I could get my hair cut more often- i always feel like I have to stretch it between appointments as I spend so much money on makeup.

My hair is past shoulder length, so nobody really notices if I haven’t had a trim for a while. Don’t get me wrong - it needs one - but I’m loathe to spend £50 even when I ask just for a dry trim. It’s ludicrous. I don’t dye my hair etc.

Will go soon and get two inches taken off, but that’ll do me for a year. I last went in November.

£100-150

Around £50 for cut & highlights 2-3 times per year

£750 per year on hairdresser (cut, colour and blow dry).

I don't spend a lot on products, the ones I use seem to last ages. Probably about £50-75 per year for shampoo, conditioner and hair mask.

I’d estimate maybe £40? On shampoo, conditioner & occasional curl cream type things.

Around £400. I would spend more if my hairdresser wasn't in Poland, because I would go there more often. I'd say £600.

€200 a year
I dye it every month at home myself and maybe one cut a year.

BMW6 I have been trimming mine for years!(Not comfortable at hairdressers) I do use Colour and really nice shampoo though (Kerastase ) So about £50/100 quid per year roughly

Come on then @badbaduncle - how much is it that your husband thinks is unreasonable?

Snap!!

I probably go to the hairdresser 3 times a year. I mean to go more often, but always forget to get booked in and then end up waiting ages for an appointment. 2 x cut and blow at £35, 1 x cut, blow and balayage at £70. I am dark blonde with longish hair so balayage seems to last a good while. Aussie shampoo and conditioner, V05 blow dry cream, argan oil - so maybe another £10 monthly on products.

Actually I reckon nowadays the biggest cost is the electricity cost of a full blow dry every other day, and a quick blast of the curtain fringe even if not doing a full blowdry .

Cut and blow dry every 6 weeks @£45 per time = £400 (DH pays £250 to get his hair cut in a similar style by the same person at the same frequency)
Wash hair every day with bar shampoo @ £5 per bar (assuming 50 washes per bar) = £70.
Swim cap for swimming = £8.
Don't use conditioner or product, don't blowdry my hair or style it, don't dye my hair so pretty minimal wrt hair costs really.

Can't do maths apparently! £35 for shampoo bar.

Cut it myself for years

@AcetoneForMyPhone I am really tempted buying scissors on amazon and trim my ends. Did you learn from tutorial on youtube or something? I won't see my hairdresser until November.

At least nearly a grand, I think.

£80. It's only £18.50 for a wash, cut and blow dry.

£6 on a box dye every six weeks.
£8 on a cut twice a year.
That’s £68 a year! 🙀

about £500, I have it cut and coloured every 6 -8 weeks.

I don't spend much on clothes, never have my nails done, no facials etc so I don't feel guilty.

£70 maybe. One hair cut, 12 shampoos 12 conditioners, other products

Bottle of shampoo a month so about £32 a year maybe add a couple of £ for hair ties.
Say £35 a year.