Feeling guilty.. Tipped hairdresser only £5

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Having highlights, cut and blow dry is a costly business. Had above today at a discounted cost of £107 ( normally it costs £140). I didn't pay usual £10 tip but only £5. Is that really mean?! Feeling guilty...

Do most people tip and is it still 10%?

Your views would be welcome, thank you

I hate tipping. Never know what to do and when to tip!!

I always tip in restaurants and round up taxi fares, but never know what to do in hairdressers. I don't tip when the salon owner does my hair, but usually tip my regular stylist if I have a cut and colour, but not when I just have roots done. I pay around £100 for a cut and colour, more if I have additional highlights, and I think I'm paying well for the service already. Never tipped more than £5 and sometimes less. I always take them a bottle of something at Christmas.

I do tip in the nail salon, they are incredibly good value, and will usually fit me in at short notice, give me samples and have even lent me a nail varnish to take away for a special weekend in case my manicure chipped. It's the extra service I am tipping for, where in the hairdressers I get exactly what I paid for - iyswim.

I tip about 10% (a pound for my trims!) and when I had some Big Work done it was a fiver. My hairdresser is always pleased, works very hard with my awkward hair and so I keep going back.

I dont because my hairdresser is sort of a friend now, and it would feel really weird. I do buy her a bottle of champagne at Christmas though.

I tip, £5 to £10 but do find it a bit awkward! Round up taxi fares and 10 to 20% in restaurants depending on service.

Odd that people perceive that the price you pay in the hairdressers is all profit

I am good with tips generally but only ever usually give £3 or a bit more - round it up to nearest say if cost £60 then £65 etc.

Years ago I tried to tip a hair salon (after a perm which I'm sure wasn't cheap £80?) £5 and was met with "that's too much" from everyone at salon so now I don't really tip only if I have change or want to round up.

I tip at Christmas and when she's going on holiday. Usually £10. Haircut and colour ranges from. £70-90 for roots or half head.

I only go every 8 weeks or time around work and social events. It's pricey.

Never ever tipped beautician and have given up regular wax in favour of epilating to save money. It was costing £45 or something ridiculous every 5-6 weeks.

I think if they want to charge a fortune (of are aware that their salon charges a lot) they need to consider affordability for the client and a tip is part of whole price to customer.

I don't tip my hairdresser. The £90 bill for a cut and colour is more than enough!

Some of the amounts being charged are eyewatering!

Not every penny you pay a hairdresser ends up in their pocket you know?! The self-employed ones have overheads - ongoing training, liability insurance, product costs, advertising, uniforms, etc. did you know the cost of a pair of hairdressing scissors starts at around £100? And they need sharpening regularly?

Tip or don't tip, they never expect it, but don't assume a £120 service that takes 2 hours means they are on £60 per hour!!!!

LEM didn't you know? We're all millionaires on MN

I still genuinely cannot believe someone would pay £100 on a hair style that needs doing again in 6-8 weeks!! thats over a weeks food shop for most people!

Do those of you who are paying so much live in London?

I rarely have my hair cut and when i do i pay £20 or i do the mnet haircut - evidence in itself laregina that not EVERYONE on mnet is a millionaire - wouldn't that be nice though :)

See, what bugs me is this - if i pay someone £60 to cut my hair what is going to make them cut it any better than the person who cuts it for £20?? This is a genuine question that i have asked myself recently, having hovvered outside the £60 salon before giving up and going to the £20 one and thinking, if they fuck it up, ive only lost £20

Horses - i always thought that hairdressing was a very poorly paid profession, perhaps i'm wrong.

its the usually bit that worries me! I wouldn't know if someone was taking the piss and charging £££ because they have just refurbed their salon or because they were a better hair dresser, thats my problem - how can you tell? I would really like to go and have a really nice cut on my hair, but can't afford to waste £50 if its not going to be any better.

£10 haircut here and I tip £1 if I have a spare quid in my purse, if not I don't worry. Am there every 4 weeks so they get £120 off me a year which is plenty I feel considering my hair takes all of 15 mins to cut...

LEMming, hairdressing is poorly paid when you work for someone else! Apprentices and junior stylists will be on the minimum wage.

The only way to really make money is to work for yourself, but the point I was making is that at no point is the money the client pays pure profit for the stylist!

Btw, I don't pay anything like the amounts mentioned on this thread for my hair - my hairdresser is self-employed and a gem!

I don't as mine is the salon owner, if I did it would be about £3 for a £30 cut (I don't have colour or blowdries) once every three months. So yes, 10%, but of a much smaller sum.

When the DCs have theirs done (somewhere else) it is usually about £18 for the pair of them, I round up to £20.

I stopped tipping last time the salon put their prices up. I'm paying about £80 now for highlights, cut and blow. I couldn't afford to add a tip onto that and even if I could, I still wouldn't.