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

Mine costs about £40 every three or four months, and I tip £5. My hairdresser is lovely and I sometimes wonder if I should tip more.

Because lots of people (including me) were saying the reason they don't tip is because the prices are too high already. That it isn't affordable to tip 10% on top of a high price. Someone wrote that salons were taking the piss since covid.

I don't follow the tip %age game anyway but my hairdresser is great, I followed her twice from her previous salons. My hair is £170 or thereabouts, I give her £10 cash.

I tip for what I truly value.

That’s some hairdo!

Same I spend about £1200 a year on cuts and colour at my hair dresser - been going 20 years. I am in every 6 weeks and get updates about how she lives a much more expensive life than I do - designer clothes, shopping trips to NYC, villas in Italy for the summer etc. She does gret job - I could get my hair done much cheaper elsewhere but I value her skill .... but however grateful she has enough of my cash!

I give my hairdresser a bottle of decent wine at Christmas. I don't tip otherwise.

I always tip £5, my haircut and colour costs £80.

I think it should be the other way round ... I should be rewarded for my loyalty to her business ... other retailers and corporates do this!

I don't tip my hairdresser. She does a good job, but why would I pay more than the set price? No one tips me for my job.

I pay £60 for my trim and colour and have never tipped

I have stopped tipping my hairdresser.

Since 2020 she has increased her prices by £5-£10 each visit (approx every 3-4months) so that’s the tip swallowed up.

I’d round it up to £50 and give a couple quid to the girl/guy who washes it if separate.

Not sure how to vote as

YABU to pay £44 for a 'basic hair cut'

YABU to think any tip "isn't enough" as there is no expectation to tip whatsoever.

YWNBU to not tip anything

But I read your OP as you worrying it "isn't enough".

Fuck me, I feel so much better about paying £40 now. I'd want them to come round in a morning and brush it for me for that much.

Wonderful contribution to the thread.

By that reasoning, do you not tip anyone then? Waiters/taxi drivers?

I think that's fine, I don't tip in accordance to a percentage, my hair cut and colour is £165 and I tip £10 each to the colourist and stylist.

@RabbitWeb6 I'm with you.
Nobody tipped me in my job so I don't tip anyone else

Hi I have long hair to my elbow, it was indeed a basic cut (not a restyle) but still involved wash and blow dry. For £44 in London I think that’s pretty good

The moat I've tipped for a keratin treatment was £10 each to my normal hairdresser and the assistant as they both did a lot, that was around £180 for the treatment

You are not obliged to tip anything!

My hairdresser costs a fortune already (and they recently threw in a £25 blow dry I didn’t ask for as I happily told them I was having a quiet night in with the dog 😆). They’re not shy with their prices.

No way am I tipping as well.

But you don’t colour it yourself do you. What a strange sentiment.

I don’t tip taxis and I could drive myself
I don’t tip restaurant staff as I could serve myself
I don’t tip Deliveroo drivers as I could collect it myself

but you don’t do it yourself 🫤

I don't actually live in the UK, but it baffles me why these people are tipped but not others providing a service. They get paid, why do they need to be tipped? (we don't tip here as a rule).

How do ye deal with not tipping with the new cars machines asking do you want to tip before you insert card

So awkward