To ask how much you pay for beauty services like your nails, hair, etc?

[ChattyChai]

I’m 39, turning 40 at the end of the year.

My husband thinks I’m being ridiculous with what I spend, but we can afford it comfortably and it makes me feel good.

I spend £42 every 3-5 weeks on nails, and every 3 months or so an extra £15 to get my eyebrows waxed and tinted.

i spend £140 every two months on getting my hair extensions moved up, and then every 4 months an extra £77 to get my roots done.

he thinks this is silly money and an extra £110 a month we could be saving, but I work, it’s my only real splurge each month and it makes me feel great. Am I spending too much? How much do you spend?

One hair cut a year, last year it cost £30 I think, next one due in two weeks

£260 every 12 weeks for botox in 3 areas.

A hair trim every 12 weeks or so for £40.

I do my own gel nails with my own kit, which was pretty inexpensive to buy.

I don't get anything else done, and all of my toiletries are cheap high street brands (Simple, Nivea and so on).

I then spend a LOT on my fitness and health routine (supplements, collagen powder, protein powder, creatine, gym membership, cross fit classes...)

Hair cut £24 every 6 weeks (stopped colouring in Covid)
Nails - do own toes. No polish on fingers due to job.
Eyebrows - do own
Shave rather than wax due to skin sensitivities.

Hair £85 once or twice a year.

I have very fine, mousy brown hair, so I dye it blond and started getting extensions about 18 months ago, it’s transformed my confidence!

I have recently had my hair cut shorter so needs to be done often with roots, toner and trim every 6 weeks - £60
i have my nails done every 3 weeks - £35 on average depending on style
Angel lashes are done every 3 weeks ish (infill) - £45
eyebrows every 4 weeks - alternating between lamination and tint/wax - averages out about - £20 a go
I’ve also started getting sports massage every 4 weeks as I carry a lot of tension in my back/shoulders - £40

it’s worth every penny!! I pretty much just wake up and go now and wear a lot less make up with lashes and eyebrows always done. Nails are big help to make me feel done up too.
if you can afford it, go for it!

I spend a lot on regular hair and beauty appointments but I've found excellent practitioners at really decent prices, I'm in the NW where the competition is fierce and I am lucky to get a discount for being a regular.

Hair roots and blowdry, £35 every 3 weeks, I get highlights & cut every 6m which is £70
Acrylic nails and nail art, every 4 weeks £25
Hollywood wax, every 7 weeks £32
Lash lift and HD brows every 7 weeks £40
Luxury pedicure with chiropodist every 8 weeks £52 ( I get this reimbursed by a health cash plan) I paint my toenails myself.
Botox every 9m £120

I do my own facials, hair masks, tanning drops, IPL, teeth whitening strips (imported from USA). I'm getting older and and takes more time and money to look half decent. I love a home spa pamper night. I do this with my teen DDs.

Weekly blow dry, monthly roots touch up, every other month ‘the workz’ highlights, colour, cut and blow dry.

post meno pause I no longer need leg wax but do need eyebrows micro bladed every few years and dyed occasionally

i also have a weekly yoga lesson, lovely spa membership and buy myself lovely clothes.

it would not occur to DH to question any of these, never mind add it up. I’m a responsible adult, work full time exactly so what I save and spend is no one’s business but my own.

Im aghast at these figures. Gel manicures ruin my nails and I had one once, that was enough. I can paint my own nails pretty well. They are in great condition thanks to being spared damaging gel manicures.

Hair I buy expensive Aveda products but my hair is a particular type and needs it. But that's it.

No facials, no nothing. I've been told I look great.

Nails every month £25-30 depending on design
hybrid lashes every 3 weeks £30
eyebrow tint and thread every 6 weeks £18
hair every 5 months £70
I get about 3 spray tans a year for weddings etc that cost about £20

Hair for me is £165 every 10 weeks for balayage it’s worth it for me because it covers my greys and it makes me feel happy having my hair done.
£20 every 4 weeks for lip wax and eyebrow wax and shape cause quite frankly I don’t want to have a moustache or caterpillar brows.

I tend to spend £100 plus for any beauty stuff I may need that month so whether it’s a new bottle of perfume or some hair products or skin care.

I am 38 years old live for the moments now cause heaven knows what it will be like in few years time meaning the state of the UK and the World etc.

I spend literally £0 - It's not important to me.

That's neither here nor there, though.

You should have equal personal spends left over after bills, joint spends and long term and short term savings. If it's affordable out of your own personal spends, then it's fine for you to choose to spend it on that.

I would only see it as a problem if it was costing more than your share of the personal spends and therefore wasn't affordable. But if, for example, your personal spends is £200 per month and you choose to spend £110 of that on beauty - then why not? As long as you don't expect to also benefit from his personal spends if he chooses to save his up.

I have about £250 a month, I’d say he has closer to £600 a month and his golf membership comes from the joint account, because he “networks” and he says it’s important for his career. He’s a lot higher on the career ladder than I am though

I dye my own hair - £12 every 8 weeks
haircut: £45 every 8-12 weeks
Eyelash extensions £35 every 3 weeks
I do my own eyebrows and nails
£180 botox every 6+ months

Lash infills £15 week
brow wax every two weeks £8
box dye brows £10 month
Nails £40 month
Hair £45 every 12 weeks
makeup £10 month
predicure n gel polish £60 every 7/8 weeks

So it's your personal spends money and you are choosing to spend it on beauty stuff. Absolutely fine.

I also think his golf membership out of joint account is fine if he uses it for networking.

I don't think it's fine that he gets £600 spends and you get £250.

It should be £425 each - you can put your extra £175 into a savings account into your name. He can spend or save his £425 as he sees fit.

Hair - alternate between £40 and £85 every 7-10 weeks, depending on whether I have colour put in.

That’s it for me.

Yeah sod that my DH earns double what I do but we both get our 700 each monthly and gym/ football season ticket come out joint pot !!

I wouldn’t necessarily agree he “networks”. Him and some of the other managers at his workplace bunk off work twice a week and go at the weekend, he’s not really meeting clients etc. but that’s how it’s always been

£55 two or three times a year for cut & blow dry

Haircut - £120 every three months

Pedicure - £35 a couple of times in the summer, only relatively recently started doing this and it's so nice to have someone deal with the hard skin!

Eyebrow threading - £8 every three weeks

Massages - occasionally as needed

Don't bother with manicure

Right - but it certainly seems like its a work related expense, and his career could suffer if he didn't have it. So fine for it to come from the joint account.

Hairs alternates each time between 70 and 100, every 6 weeks. BIAB Nails are 30 every four weeks and get toes done in summer only usually once which is 20. Botox twice a year a couple of hundred each time, lips once a year 150, eyebrow top up every couple of years 200.

Hair cut £30 every 7 weeks.

I do my colour at home, about £5 per month.

Botox/fillers average out just under £100 per month.

I tint and shape my eyebrows which costs about £2 per month.

Doesn't really matter how much anyone else splurges on it. Can you afford it is really all that matters.

(and since you asked, I cut my own hair and never have my nails done and plug my eye brows myself but I have other priorities. I know woman who spend a lot more than you on this sort of stuff).

Our of interest, what does your DH spend his money on? Any hobbies or so?