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?

I’m 42 and I spend 40 quid a year for two cuts and the same on semi permanent dyes I do at home. Maybe 100 quid a year on product shampoo/ conditioner topped up by beauty advent calendar stuff.so maybe 200 all in. I’m sure I’m at the low end. Prechildren I had highlights etc and was 1K+

About £200 on 4 cuts and £300 on product.

Under £100 I guess. I cut and colour my own hair and don't use styling products.

DH, bless him, earns 1/6 of my income and has a trainer habit that costs plenty. He knows he's a v lucky man to have such a successful wife, with such excellent hair 😂😂😂👍👍

I get it braided roughly four times a year at £150 a pop. £600

Deep conditioning treatments £30-60, every six weeks. So £180 - £360

Hair products, maybe £200 a year? This is a wild guess and probably wrong.

So, £980 - £1,160 a year.

I’m guessing that the £50 per annum people aren’t Black? As - for my demographic, my hair costs are pretty low maintenance. Our hairstyles and their maintenance are often spendy.

This. I’m looking at all these £50 a year people with great interest. 😂

This. I’m looking at all these £50 a year people with great interest

Not sure my way would suit everyone. My hair is very, very curly, as in tiny ringlets. It's long, thick and pretty wild.

I don't use shampoo, just conditioner, so around £4 a month. I cut and colour it myself, so a few quid for henna or some kind of root dye. I don't use styling products at all, just oil (argan or jojoba usually) which lasts for ages.

So cheap as chips. Cheaper, possibly.

About £200. Highlights and a cut every 6 months, and a cut or two in between.

Used to be a lot more, but that’s when I was fighting the grey. Now I’ve embraced it by getting my hair white blonde and just letting the grey merge in. I love it, and only get the highlights a couple of times a year because the back of my head hasn’t gone as grey as the front, so it just evens it all up.

£0-25, cut it myself. Every now and then I might colour it to cover a bit of grey, but being only a bit it looks fine without. I'm a minimalist shampoo person too - so last ages, bought on offer only, and don't need conditioner (have water softener).

I’m a bit all or nothing - some years I bung a box dye on myself and my mum cuts it for me: maybe £100?

other years (like now!) I have extensions in and goto a salon for a cut and colour: aprox £2k.

It has got me thinking how much I must spend a year though on beauty crap as I’ve never added it up before. I get nails, lashes, Botox regularly….. I’m not sure I want to do that sum!

The point is that it isn’t really an option for Afro hair. Which is different from ‘very very curly’.

The point is that it isn’t really an option for Afro hair. Which is different from ‘very very curly’

I wasn't replying to you. I was describing my hair (mixed race, incidentally) and not suggesting for one moment that it was a suitable option for anyone else.

You quoted me, so it certainly seemed like you were replying to me. But, alright.

Bugger all! It's long, I trim the ends. I had to google what balayage was.. :-0

You quoted me, so it certainly seemed like you were replying to me. But, alright

Okay - I quoted one of your posts. I didn't clock that you were the same poster who had talked about afro hair. The quote I used didn't refer to afro hair. I was replying in general terms to the actual post I quoted.

Last got my hair cut about 3 years ago I think, and I don't cut or do anything with it myself either so I'm going for I spend nothing on it a year.
Unless buying a hairbrush and a bottle of Alberto Balsam shampoo from Savers or Poundland counts?! 😁

@Lanaa was talking about Afro hair treatments and how expensive our hair upkeep is. I responded saying ‘this’ in agreement, and marvelling at how little some people spend.

So, yup, that comment was also about Afro hair.

£144 in haircuts plus whatever I spend in bottles of shampoo and conditioner but the whole family uses those.

TBH relative earnings are not the issue. You both (assuming the slack is in your budget) should have some discretionary spending money.

He seems to be spending plenty of discretionary money on his own preferences, why does he think he gets to dictate your choices? How much does his PT cost? Or was this more that he simply had no clue of the costs involved in good hair care?

Approx £200

£200 every three or four months, so about £700. This only started in the last couple of years, prior to that I was getting the cheapest dry trims and using box dyes. I look and feel SO much better now when I get a really good cut and balayage, and my stylist is expensive but she’s the only person I really trust to do it.

The way I see it, my hair is something I ‘wear’ every single day so it’s money well spent and much better value than buying new clothes (which I rarely do).

approximately:
£50 for shampoo and conditioner
£300 for trim and deep conditioning treatment at salon (every 3 months).
Total £350
I don't really have what you'd call a hairstyle though.

Anywhere between zero and £120. Lately I’m not having it cut or coloured but they’re has been years where I’d go a few times.

im going to assume you’re someone who goes every six weeks and if you’re getting a cut and colour I can imagine that would easily be thousands over a year.

Nothing on cuts as just trim the ends myself - my hair is long and wavy so pretty forgiving if it's a bit wonky.

Esalon colour 4x a year or so about £100; my roots don't really show as I don't have grey and just use it to brighten my natural shade, so I don't have to do it that often.

Products including Olaplex, masks and so on probably about £200. I buy the huge bottles of Pureology shampoo and conditioner which last a couple of years each, plus I'm getting through all sorts of oddbod bits from GWPs/advent calendars and so on.

So if I round it up to include occasional clips & accessories too, maybe £350 a year?

I spend £1000+. Extensions (just a colour through not full extensions) cut and colour. Need to have it regularly due to grey. It's £180 for cut/colour/remove and re-fit extensions. To buy the extensions I think it's about £90 but I only need to get them twice a year. I am struggling to afford it now so will have to not bother with the extensions. I love them but just can't justify it any more.