Beauty treatments? Nails/brows/lashes etc

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What do you have done regularly?

Anything? Nothing? What do you consider a minimum? How much do you spend?

Blimey - you all high maintenance!

Apart from my hair- cut about 4x a year and highlights 2 x a year- nothing.

Do my own nails, feet, eyebrows ( they need filling in not plucking) and facials.

Full leg and hollywood wax every 6 weeks
Eyebrow shape every 6 weeks
Eyebrow tint every 3 weeks
Facial once a month if I can
Manicure every now and then

eyelash extensions every 2 weeks
Had eyebrows tattooed
Hair cut and colour every 8 weeks
brazilian every 4 weeks
occasional spa day/massage/facial

Acrylic fill-ins, 3weeks £15
Facial Hair Laser, 4 weeks £30 (though will stop soon as it's permanent )
Hair Cut, 10-12 weeks £20

That's it, everything else is done at home, I used to do my own manicures but fed up of polish chipping after a few days. I colour my own hair. If I could afford it, I'd use laser removal all over.

aren't all these things such a waste of money though when you can do them yourself?

here in the SE near London you can't get a manicure of pedicure anywhere remotely decent for under £15- £30 - I'd rather spend my money on products and do it at home.

Ditto eyebrows- dead easy to pluck your own.

I dye my own eyelashes black every three weeks.

I epilate my own legs/underarms.

I have a bikini wax (Brazilian) and manicure/pedicure from time to time (much more often in summer) but take good care of my feet all year round (remove hard skin and moisturise a lot).

Hair cut and highlights every other month £97 - I have a chic little bob that needs regular trims to keep it in shape and I have far more grey hairs than I care to admit to, hence the need for highlights to disguise them

Eyebrows threaded every other month £8 - do the upkeep myself between appointments

I shave my own legs, underarms and bikini line

Nails - acrylics £25 for a set and then around £16 for infills. When feeling the financial pinch, I have them removed and wear nails short and clean with clear varnish

NEED to get proper pedicure - currently do it myself at home and pain toe nails myself

I have my hair cut about three times a year.

I had HD brows done at the end of March but wasn't that impressed so just pluck them myself now.

St Tropez spray tan before holidays/special occasions (£24), luxury pedicure every couple of months (£19), nails filed and polished every couple of weeks (£8.00), facials as a treat, acrylic nails never again!

I am currently letting my hair grow from graduated bob which I have had since dd was born (2007) into something slightly longer, it's at the messy stage which I can't do anything with but determined to persevere. Also colour my own hair every 4 weeks.

Was going to try the fish pedicure until someone told me something that has totally put me off!!

The difference between plucking and threading is huge so yes, while I could do them myself, they look so much better threaded. And it's what, £7 a week? Worth it.

applecrumble I went with friends to the fish thing a few weeks ago. I was just spectating as I had a cut on my foot. Having seen it, I will not be putting my feet in there myself - I also realised something that was totally off putting!!!!

Hi Meggles, someone told me (so please correct me anybody if I am totally wrong) that the water the fish are swimming in is not changed after every person's feet have been in (how could they?) so therefore there are all germs/veruccas/fungal nail infections from other people's feet in the water and also been told that the fish can actually nip you drawing blood, so there is also other people's blood in there (passing on of HIV?) - a very recent beauty treatment so no long term outcomes yet known?

If none of this true, I would still not have it done, couldn't bear fish swimming near my feet - yuk!!

get face fur (eyebrows, lip, chin) threaded off and eyebrows dyed. nails periodically but v irritating when they chip the next day.

Hair cut and blow dried every 2 - 3 months
Pedicure before my hot Easter hols, then DIY the rest of the year
Eye-brow waxing every 5-6 weeks. keep thinking about threading
Shave legs / underarms
Veet bikini area
Consider false nails every so often, but never get it done as I know I would break them in 5mins

applecrumble, just out of interest, what was it about the HD Brows that you weren't impressed by? I just did the HD Brow training it at the weekend so I'm interested to hear feedback about it.

ignore the superfluous 'it' - bad editing

I have:

eyelash extensions every 2 weeks, infills £15 per session. (£100 to put on initially)

Spray Tan every month or so in the summer, £20

Nails - do them myself, cannot bear anyone else fussing over my hands

Pedicure - 3 or 4 times a summer (do myself in winter) £40

Hair, cut and colour every 2 months - £110

Massage treats - twice a year maybe more...£60 - £80 a go

facials - if someone buys me one :)

Waxing - do my own, ouch!

Eyebrow plucking - waxed twice a year, do it myself inbetween, £10

Blimey, never added it up before......

Havingkittens After reading all the hype and then seeing them on special offer at a local salon, I had them done for £25 (usual charge £35!). Even at £25 it was a complete waste of money, they look better after an £8 eye wax or when I do them myself. It was as though to get the HD 'experience' you had to have them dyed, waxed, plucked, threaded, drawn back in again when the combination of all of them wasn't really necessary iyswim. I just thought that you can get them tinted and waxed for far far less producing the same result without the HD brows 'moniker'.

Jeez. I don't have anything done! I do my own nails and pedi. Shave when I start to graze DH on the legs in bed, hair gets done when it gets so ridiculously bad that I HAVE to do something about it and that's about it. Got I'm a mess.

I understand what you mean applecrumble. I think the main benefit of HD Brows is to train them into the "perfect" shape for your face over a course of time rather than just tidying up. The idea is to create a template shape and then encourage the hairs to grow in where needed using a growth serum and taking hair off where traditional methods don't. It can take several treatments to get the brows into the optimum shape which is partly why a lot of people think the treatment is a waste of time after their first treatment.

I can see that this treatment isn't for everyone though. It's quite a definite look.

Wow, feeling a bit of a dirty tramp by comparison to all this!

Don't have a lot of money for anything beauty related, haven't had my hair cut for about 18 months, its pretty much waist length now.
Am naturally blonde and haven't put an colour in at all for about 3 years.

Have to have my nails really short for work and college (work in a kitchen) so I chop them off when they get too long - don't even bother filing usually.

Feet - don't really pay any attention to them, might paint my toenails if a really special occasion.

I put cream on my face and shave my legs but that is about it beauty-wise, pluck my eyebrows if they get really bad but being blonde you can't even tell most of the time!