How much do you tip at hair and beauty appointments?

[Viola22]

I've been having this discussion with some friends and we all vary loads. What do you tip for a cut and blow dry, costing around £40.
And something like an eyebrow wax/ pedicure £20/£30?

I pay on average £120 every 6 weeks and I always have it done by the salon director. I usually tip him £15. I say usually as I forget sometimes.

So if it's minimum wage jobs you feel sorry for and need to top up with your own money, why not tip shop assistants or cashiers? Nurses? Care workers?

Honestly, hair & beauty costs a bomb already and "doing a good job" IS their job. I'd only tip if it was abroad and really cheap.

@rhubarbginisnotasin that's £2535 a year 😱

I thought everybody tipped and am surprised at how many who don't.

Literally never heard of it (apart from at restaurants) till I came on MN. Seems so random - do you tip the people at the Kwikfit garage? The guys that wash your car? The man who sells your train ticket? So bizarre.

Why are you surprised? It's not like in a restaurant where you are "paying for the food" - in a salon you literally are already paying for their service. A lot of money for the average person too, I might add.

It's perfectly normal to tip hairdressers but entirely up to the individual if they do.

Oh shit, you're meant to tip beauticians? Mine must hate me

I mean it's not a 'MN' thing.

I have hair done every six weeks...About £125. I give £10.
I see beautician every six weeks for facial/ Brazilian but don't tip as she's a friend. But she gets champagne at Xmas

Yeah, I spoke to people at work and they do it too. Just never knew before.

Luckily it's not "expected" like at restaurants where they plonk on a service charge regardless of how good/bad the waiters were.

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I'm not working atm. I'm a single parent. We manage but atm I don't even have a car. Tipping people who have a wage when I am job-hunting is ridiculous.

However, I have guilt-tipped people who earn / earn more than I do in the past but I had a moment of lucidity a few years back and I don't do it anymore.

A while ago I brought my dd to the hairdressers and she had her hair cut too so it was over 100 for the two of us. That's good business. They weren't getting a tip out of me as well.

Stop acting like we're in America. EVEN if I get a job I won't be earning significantly more than a hairdresser and I would get zero tips.

I always round up, so my nails are always £27 and I pay £30 etc.

I don't go out of my way to tip if it's a round number, I don't understand the big deal with hairdressers/beauticians it's not like they're known for undercharging! I don't tip the girl in Sainsbury's who always serves me even though she's lovey, or the man who fixes my car even though he does a great job, my daughters childminder who's amazing, or the shop assistant at next... they are paid to do a job and we pay what we are told to pay, what's the big deal about paying more?

I'm so British, I feel embarrassed if I don't because it's 'the custom'

I feel mortified if I don't have cash on me as I always pay by card for everything

Cabs are interesting as I can now add on tip to the card payment now I can pay for black cabs with card, but uber doesn't have this facility yet, so it depends on having change (because no cash changes hands in the payment to round up). And it's the uber drivers who need it for wages - except that it's the black cabs who actually give me good service because they've done The Knowledge and can use their skills to get me somewhere (unlike uber where invariably the journey is shit because they're blindly following the sat nav with no idea where they're going)

When I lived in the US I frantically tipped loads for everything because I was terrified to be the Brit abroad who doesn't tip for stuff who the staff all hate, because their taxes are deducted assuming a certain level of tips. So they get taxed on income they never received if they don't get tipped sufficiently well

My tipping embarrassment may stem in part from this

Everyone is so different! It's funny that it's always 10% in restaurants/ taxis etc but there doesn't seem to be a standard for this! Is there anyone in one of these industries that could say if they expect it?

"I'm so British, I feel embarrassed if I don't because it's 'the custom"

I'm too embarrassed TO tip. I know it's the done thing and I've seen others do it, but I just don't really know how to except when there's a little plate, but then I feel odd putting coins in in front of them.
I used to tip taxis where I used to live because they tended to expect it - I only rounded up and said 'keep the change', never actually gave coins. I'll tip at restaurants if the service is good, but not at Costa type places where there's no table service, but they still have a begging bowl thing by the till.