How much do you spend on hair, beauty and clothes?

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Per year? Per month? I have been through my statements and on average spending £180 a month, so around £2000 a year. Am I average in this? Dh is horrified!! Anyone else want to share their beauty £ stats!

1,000 in the last four weeks. I'm ashamed of myself, we are supposed to be saving

I didn't really have enough money to but clothes for a while so it was vouchers at Christmas and the odd implies buy. Got a better paid job and gave splurged a bit! Needed decent stuff for work though.

Hair £80 cut and colour every six weeks.

Make up, again splurged recently on by terry concealer and Laura Mercier foundation.

I don't know exactly but definitely above 10k a year on clothes, probably similar on accessories, make up etc . We can easily afford it, I don't feel guilty. I send a lot of clothing to local charities when I clear out on a regular basis.

Hair- about 2 visits per year for highlights and a cut, so around £270
Clothes - only when I must, so work trousers, jeans, tops and maybe one silly expensive thing, so around £400
Makeup etc - max of £100
So definitely less than £1000, probably nearer £800.

for those who spend £5k +, what are you buying and how often?

Nothing on hair except shampoo etc. Haven't paid for a hair cut in about 3 years.

Makeup/skincare/eye care/dental - about £160 a month, but have a lot hoarded so won't be spending much this year. I have Botox done which is the bulk of my expense, but totally worth it.

Clothes - about £100 a month, a big weakness. Aiming for a no spend year!

I can comfortably afford to spend much more, but I've realised that I just have enough clothes and that there are a lot of decent budget brands which work very well if you do your research. My aim is to reduce my spending on discretionary spending but squirrel more away into longer term investments as that will bring me more satisfaction in the long run.

Ah yes, forgot about Botox - can add another £500 onto my annual beauty spend for that!

for those who spend £5k +, what are you buying and how often?

Skincare, skincare and more skincare, pretty much always high end, and make up. I buy a lot of high street make up and nail polish, but I do splash out on expensive stuff from time to time. I've been getting a lot of nail polish from the US lately as the brands are hard to find here (UK).

Clothes I tend to have a bit of a splurge once every few months. H&M is my favourite place to shop, which isn't expensive but I will buy quite a bit, and I have a Superdry problem, which is rather more expensive.

Nabootique How on earth do you cope with Superdry? It's so loud and dark. I once bought an orange top from there and when I got outside it was much more red than I wanted, or it had looked in the shop. I went back in for my money back and told them to turn the lights on so people could see what they were buying.

ChristmasCabbage Ahahaha! I do feel like that about Hollister. I only went in there once. That is ridiculously dark. I've never found Superdry to be particularly dark, but the volume of music gets to me sometimes. I just find their stuff to be a really good fit.

We need to be careful to limit ourselves to £100 each a month, this has to include treats, ie coffee or nights out and presents for eachother, so guess I spend approx. £40 a month on clothes, makeup. I do ask for money/vouchers for my birthday which might add up to £60, so that usually goes on new top, a new item of makeup or skin product.

I like to make the most of myself, but don't feel hard done by if others have more as life is good here.

I've drastically cut my spending I was drowning in stuff that wasn't making me happy. Not spending much at the moment I'm wearing what I already have. The money I've saved now goes on travel.

I'm not sure -
about 6 haircuts a year for £30 each = £180
Hair dye about 6 times a year about £5 each = £30
Contact lenses £12 a month (do need these to see but suppose it counts) = £144
Makeup about £10 a year
Shower gels - I like nice ones and probably spend about £120 a year
Shampoo and conditioner - try and get offers probably about £60 a year
Clothes depends but probably average about £50 a month. Feels like it is less but things can add up like nice bra etc So about £600 a year
Total per year about £1,200.
That's more than I'd like so I think time to cut back somewhere. I did have a year where I didn't buy any clothes at all except for things I actually needed - maybe I need to do that again.

Oh skin care things - probably about £5 a month. As I rounded up before is still within my £1,200 a year

I spend about £3500 per year, but I wear everything I buy and tend to buy good quality stuff. Out of those about £1000 is for hair, make up and nails

I had no idea but it's been interesting toting it up. I think the answer is probably somewhere between £8k and £12k per year.

Hair -£500
Make up - £200
Other beauty things - eg body creams, facial scrubs, shower gels etc £500
Clothes - £5000
Accessories - £1500
Contacts - £300

I shop in bursts, so the money isn't a regular sum I spend.

I would say that between dh, family and friends I probably get given another £10k worth of clothes, accessories and smelliest as Christmas and birthday presents. Disclaimer - I am not toting up the value of presents as they are given to me, most of this spent by dh!!

I really resonate with what you say, IKEA. I grew up in a home where spending on one's appearance was definitely frowned upon. It has been liberating to spend my way out of that conditioning and I have some lovely timeless things to show for it. However, I feel I've come full circle in the last 5 years since DDs came along. For one, I'm on the last leg of paying for expensive childcare before dd2 finally goes to school so as my tastes haven't changed to reflect the change in disposable income I find I would rather go without the stuff I would previously have treated myself to than substitute. In addition, I now have new financial commitments and long-term financial goals which I, surprisingly, find myself just as excited about as I would my regular boots and bags fix of yesteryear. There isn't enough cash to save and splurge, and at this time of my life, saving is offering me the greatest sense of gratification, albeit delayed.
I spend about £150 a year on disposable contact lenses and probably buy a new pair of glasses every other year for the same amount.
I hardly wear any make up or fragrance, so spend a paltry amount on this: one Dr Hauschka eyeliner, mascara, deodorant x 2 and tinted moisturiser and Miller Harris scent will probably last me a year and cost £100ish.
I cut and highlight my own hair at £6 a throw a few times a year. We all use Faith in Nature shampoo, conditioner and shower gel which hardly breaks the bank.
I do enjoy bargain hunting on eBay and probably spend £30-40 per month, or double every other, on the odd nice thing, most recently Diana Porter jewellery and Manuka yoga wear. Yay

Up to £100 or more a month. I have always prioritised good quality skin care and decent make up. I have never been one to go without my skin care regime even in times of economic hardship I have managed somehow.

I put that ahead of buying clothes. Clothes costs vary depending on need.

Hmm interesting.

Hairdresser about £300-350 a year (have it coloured but at home)
Makeup & beauty products very little maybe £50 a year? Not including everyday toiletries in that as they are picked up with the food shop. I don't wear much makeup day to day.
Clothes & shoes £800-1000 per year - I tend to mainly shop twice a year and budget £400-500 each time, although don't always spend it all.

I agree Flower. It's no good being fantastically dressed if your face is a state

Hair 4 times a year at £80.
Eyelashes every 3 weeks at £20
Supermarket toiletries apart from clinique soap.
Make up, I don't wear lots but it's MAC/Bobby Brown and I often ask for it as gifts because I'm hard to buy for fussy so maybe £5 a month.
Clothes and shoes, I'm trying to buy less but better quality but probably works out to £250pm, I'm also a massive bargain hunter so it's usually in sales season from HUSH, H&M and Next plus one Mulberry handbag a year.

Yikes that's still more than I thought at about £3600 per year.

This year I have budgeted:

£100 a month for clothes, beauty and makeup.
£45 a month for hair (highlights and cut every 10-12 weeks)
£33 a month for eyebrow shape and electrolysis

I spent a lot more than that last year, probably nearer £3-400 a month on clothes, beauty and make up but in my defence I've been pregnant or post-baby for large chunks of the last 7 years (3 DC) and I needed to replace most things. 2015 was also the year I discovered high end skincare in a big way, so I have a big stash to work through this year.

My present budget is :

Hair - £55 pcm - cut/full set of high and low lights/cut/half head on sex week cycle.
Clothes - £100 pcm plus any birthday or Christmas money, plus the sales returns of any thing I sell on ebay, so probably £150 in all.
Make up - I wear make up every day but it lasts me ages, and I get Bonus stuff from Clinique. no more than £20 per month.
I don't have to dress in an expensive way for work and my social life is limited so most of my purchases are good quality (Toast/Jigsaw?Whistles/Cos) and I tend to sell them off when I'm bored with them.

£7 a month on hair dye. I don't have my hair cut.
Clothes - when they wear out usually so that's very variable but not a lot.
Tesco Pantene shampoo and conditioner for the family. A bar of soap.

Trying to cut down, and have made real in-roads in the past couple of years, but still spend too much.

Hair and Beauty are the areas I have cut down most on. I've almost completely swapped out most of my high-end beauty products and make-up for cheap brands, with the exception of Trilogy rosehip oil, YSL Touche Eclat and Clinique chubby sticks (which I cannot find alternatives to that I'm happy with). e.g. I've gone from using Eve Lom cleanser to Superdrug hot cloth cleanser, Aveda shampoo to Aldi shampoo, Clinique super defence cream to Biore factor 50 sunscreen / Nivea moisturiser, all quite happily. I probably spend about £20 a month on beauty products/make-up now, compared to maybe £80 a month before my swaps.

Have also given up my expensive hairdresser, as my style has changed and is simpler to keep up with just a trim and a home colour now (was having layers cut in and balayage before, which required real skill). So maybe £150 a year on hair now, whereas before it was nearly a grand .

Clothes I still struggle with. I've definitely got a clothes shopping addiction. Promised myself I'd do a 'no spend' January, but have already twitched bought 3 dresses in the sales, and another couple of Ebay just this week . Reckon I easily spend £100 a month on clothes on a 'good' month and considerably more a couple of times a year. I spent £500 in December alone! Eek.