how much do spend on personal grooming a year?

[BerylStreep]

So thinking of things like hair cut / colour, make up, hair removal, cosmetic procedures. I haven't worked out my own spending, but thought it would be an interesting thing to do.

Hairdresser cut and colour £400
Hair products, including shampoo£100
Make up - £100
Perfumes £100 - I normally get one pricey and one cheaper but fortunately I get presents too
£120 on eyebrow threading

I would say I am medium maintenance but the cost has increased since I turned 35 and hair colour and make up are now a requirement for me to look alive.

About 300 on haircuts, 100 on perfume, 100ish on skincare and 100 max on makeup including nail varnish (used to be less but I've just had a makeover). 20 quid on razors and 20 on shampoo maybe?

Are we including soap, body moisturiser, sunscreen etc? That would make it creep up I reckon.

So is Dionysuss the highest so far?

£60 for a haircut every six weeks, £8.50 for eyebrow threading about the same. Other than that i do everything else myself, but definitely spend far too much on makeup, skincare, perfume, nailpolish etc.

I have an ordinary job (lecturer) but that doesn't stop me wanting to look nice!

Lashes £35 every 3 weeks. £600
Brows £20 every 6weeks £175
Hair cut and colour £80 every 6 weeks £700
Fanny wax £20 every 6 weeks £175
£20 per month various other beauty bits £240
Floating/facials/massages 3x year £200

£2090

Haircut and highlights are £90 every 6 weeks. Nails I do my own shellac so probably £100 yearly on supplies and colours. Eyelashes £40 every 4 weeks. Brows are £25 every 6 weeks. I use Dermalogica moisturiser and Kerastase hair products so that would probably bump up the total considerably. I tend to stick to the same makeup brands and buy a few high-end things a few times a year rather than lots of little, cheaper products every month.

Before adding it up I'd have guessed at a couple of hundred a year but it's probably far more.

This year:

4 x hair appointments = £450 ish
2 x sets of gel nails = £50
Thread vein laser removal course (highly successful if you're wondering) = £325
Make up and toiletries possibly around £400, hard to judge (I don't understand the thread about being ashamed of a beauty product hoard at all ).

I do my own waxing and eyebrows.

If I had the means I'd spend a lot more. I'd go to a salon for everything and buy beautiful skincare and make up every day. Sigh.

Cut and color twice a year £600
Makeup products about £100 a year
Skincare products about £250 a year
Do my own nails and waxing. Might have a pedicure 2ce a year.

Low maintenance I'd say

Eccle, if we did that mine would increase by about £130. I am definitely low maintenance, other than a decent haircut I do very little. Cut (never polish) my nails and wear foundation, mascara and lipstick on a 'special' occasion. Just who I am I suppose.

I do like handmade soaps though - I have got really sensitive skin, prone to dryness. I am a member of the soap club here:

www.isleofmullsoap.scot

Two handmade soaps a month (for all of us). Even DH can feel a difference in his skin now he uses them.

Makeup and skincare about £500, hair £200 as I don't do much to it. Nails £250. Pilates £700

Haircut / colour approx £350
Hair removal £25 (waxing once a year plus a tiny amount on razors)
Make up, perfume and skincare products - very little (I rarely wear make up or perfume and buy cheap skincare products)
Occasional spa treatment

Say £500 in total.

Hair colour and cut about every 6 weeks, also get eyebrows lip and chin threaded at the same time and any shampoo/conditioner = £90 a time

That works out at £720 a year

No facials, manicures, massages etc etc
Make up and skincare. Don't wear make up every day, and not fancy brands when I do so say £250 over the year ought to cover it?

Gym membership £348 a year

I would have said I'm low maintenance... £1,318 a year or £109.83 a month. Avoiding looking like the wreck of the Hesperus is an expensive business it appears.

Haircut probably once a year, £30-ish
I sometimes have a salon wax, maybe once a year again, another £30, and again eyebrows maybe once or twice a year, so say £20.

Don't colour my hair, wear make-up, perfume, or use skin care products of any description.

Probably spend £8 a year on new razor blades, maybe

So £88 a year, or about £7 a month.

73 Dexter I think you may win the title for lowest spend, closely followed by Datschi!

Looking at my own spending, my biggest cost is haircuts - £45 each time, about 4 or 5 times a year. The annoying thing is that I never feel my hair is one of my best features. It used to be £90 each time for a cut & colour, but I have started colouring it myself (and I do as good a job).

Hmmm. This could be scary
Hair cut £270
Colours. £200
Facial treatments £500
Nails £450
Podiatry £180
Make up £250
Skincare £500
Massage £120
Yikes! That's nearly £2,500 ! Good job my husband doesn't read Mumsnet!!

Two haircuts a year at £40 each. Leg wax before hols £17. Two mascaras @ £20 ish and one lipstick for about the same. Facial wipes and moisturiser from Aldi at about £2 each. Actually more than I thought! Maybe I'll have to find cheaper make up ...

Oh god, loads and the amount increases with every year as I try to hold back the sands of time.

Hair cut & colour - £600 per year
Eyebrows shape & colour - £150 per year
LVL - £300 per year
Spray Tan - £100 per year
IPL - £300 per year
Filler & Botox £1000 per year
Teeth bleaching - £300 per year

Christ! £2,750 per year. I do my own mani/pedis & waxing - probably a good job looking at the above spend.

Haircut and highlights every other month £600
Shampoo/conditioner/ hair product £60
Moisturiser/toner/facewash £150
Make up £150
Eyebrow threading £20

OMG nearly a grand!

Hair cut/colour £200
Actual hair colour purchased separately £150

Eyebrow shape and tint £120
Waxing products to do at home £70

Makeup £25

Skincare £150

Hair care £100

Total £815 yikes

I've been growing my hair, so no cuts, and when I get it trimmed I get a friend to do it (she is a hairdresser by trade). I went back to my natural colour a few years ago as I couldn't be arsed dying it any more (and I actually prefer it now!)

Make up, I have quite a bit that doesn't really need replacing, so it'd say maybe £70 a year as an average of replacing odd bits and pieces or buying the odd thing here and there. I wear make up every day, but don't use much.

Skincare....Probably the most out of everything. I'd say maybe.....300 a year max? Only because if you use something twice a day, you obviously get through it quickly.

So about 370 odd a year at the moment. I haven't included things like shampoo and conditioner, as I don't use anything fancy. I also haven't included the cost of razors, because that's just a basic cost for god's sake!!

I used to spend much more on make up as I would just buy whatever caught my eye, but haven't been able to afford to do that in ages!

My spend is huge this year as I'm having laser hair removal on legs and bikini area (all off/Hollywood) which is costing £340 every 2 months but other then that £60 every 3 months for cut and colour and £20 for gel nails once in a blue moon. Thinking of trying LDL lashes soon.

A few thousand.

Hair is around £100 every six weeks, sometimes more sometimes less so that is about £900
Nails done every fortnight to three weeks at £30 so that is about £500
Threading done every three weeks at £15 so that is £260
I have a facial about every month which is around £50 so that is about £600
Pedicure averages out about once a month at £40 so that is about £500

I guess on average I spend about £100 a month and make up and related products, another £1200. During fake tan time that will rise!

I do go for massages but I am not counting that.

So about £4k without thinking about it too much

I want to get my nails done so frequently !

Hair cut 1-2 times a year £100

Moisturiser etc £50 a year
Perfume £50 a year
Conditioner £20-40 for two bottles that last a year
Eye drops £5 a month (blood shot isn't a good look)
Nails £30 every 2-3 years

I need to try harder.

Oh God. I don't even want to think about this. I've probably spent about £500 in the last two months alone on products, hair and nails