Tipping 10% for a haircut.

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based in London (Leytonstone not central).

Is it acceptable for me to tip £5 for a basic £44 cut, or will that come across as stingy

thanks

Back when the minimum wage didn’t exist? Things are different now. The minimum wage is now not all that less than certainly most entry level professional roles. Do you also tip cashiers in supermarkets? Tradespeople? The bin men? Postie? Etc etc.? Why are hairdressers, taxi drivers and waiting staff different?

Off to add "should I tip my hairdresser" to the thread that's running with the most tedious subjects that appear as a new thread at least weekly

Jeez stop tipping. We have a national minimum wage and things are expensive enough right now without do-gooding tippers upping the ante. YABU.

Don't really want to normalise and spread American tipping culture. I only tip at Christmas.

I’ve always tipped

Tipping a hairdresser was definitely a thing when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.

I lived between zone 1-2 for 18years and visited bog standard, local salons along with higher end ones. I've given everything from £0-£5.

I too don't want it to be expected like in America. I've always thought of a tip is for exceptional service, where someone has gone above the norm. There are multiple other jobs earning a low wage- yet you don't tip them!

I'd be inclined to tip by rounding up rather than percentage for haircuts. Likewise taxis. In restaurants if there's no service charge then I'd consider a percentage approach.

I might tip more than a fiver for cut and colour but a fiver is more than enough for any haircut

I give 2£ to my hairdresser (59 for cut) and the same amount to my son's hairdresser (15 for cut). I used to give 5 to my hairdresser but they raised their price from 50 £ to 59 £ so that's why I think the tip is reasonable.

I don't tip the hairdesser. The prices are high enough already.

Oh has anyone else noticed that Uber Eats has a tip by percentage suggestion rather than fill in your own amount as on Deliveroo? I definitely would only tick 10% box

I have never not tipped a hairdresser. However, I don’t do a percentage! I tip a fiver each time. I go to the hairdressers every 3 weeks. Each go is 45 quid. Every three months it’s £160 quid. A fiver is enough!

I stopped tipping hairdressers when they started taking the piss with prices post covid

I don't tip, I pay a bloody fortune for my haircut.

I'm not really sure how I feel about tipping in the age of living wage etc.

Whether I have a cut, which is £35 at my lovely lady’s house, or a colour, which is £70, I always tip her £5. I think thats around 15% on a cut and maybe 7% on a colour? I’ve never calculated it, I just thought an extra fiver sounds nice.

Same here. I recently paid £26 for a dry cut which took 15 minutes. Before Covid it was £15.

I've stopped tipping at the hairdresser. I used to, but I've been going to the same hairdresser for 20+ years. My junior stylist has had lots of promotions and she's now the manager so it costs me a bloody fortune.

I have my hair cut every 4 weeks-a dry cut which costs £25 and takes 15 minutes. I give my hairdresser £10 at Christmas but that’s it.

No tip from me.

I can generally only afford one haircut a year, and I budget a tip in to that figure. I’d be embarassed not to tip.

I pay £70 for a wash, cut and blow dry. No way is a tip going to happen. I resent tipping taxi drivers who charge £20 for a 7 mile/15min ride.

I've been this morning. £105 for a half head highlights and overall root tint (no cut or blow dry, just a rough dry). Whilst that seems to be the going rate around here (South East) it's still a bloody fortune. I feel stingy not tipping but I do wonder how people afford to get their hair done at all. Especially when I see very young women having expensive highlights.

To stick up for salons, my friend owns one and her bills have doubled. I've seen the actual bills, she isn't lying. Her water bill alone is one and a half times more than 2 years ago. Supplies like colour, gloves, shampoo all have got up huge amount. Her colour stock has tripled in price. Obviously staff also need wage increases as the cost of living is huge. She is a good salon with a decent client base and she isn't making much money at all. Breaking just over even. This isn't unusual.
Her costs have had to increase unfortunately.

I appreciate prices have gone up for everyone, but what does this have to do with tipping?

I never tip at the hairdresser - it is a very expensive service and I am a very regular client so I really don't see why I should be tipping.