How much do you spend on hair and beauty?

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I thought I was pretty low maintenance, wear minimal make up, but a sucker for skincare and some haircare. I've just added up my spend online this year and it comes to £750... I'm horrified! What's your spend?

I use kitchen items to wash my hair- oats, egg, bicarb etc. So it costs, but I don't count it separately.

Skin, I wash less often so don't need to moisturise every day. I have fewer skin issues now I do less. I'm still using up stuff I've been given over the years.

Honestly, have the skin problems are caused by the skin products. Since I stopped using shampoo, the eczema I had on my feet, and generally irritable skin, has basically gone.

Do less.

Yes, I have stopped using shampoo, but diagnosed skin problems, like rosacea can become severe, permanent and disfiguring if left untreated. So doing less is not always the panacea you have found it to be @sprinklemetinsel . Although generally, I agree with you.

Yes, I have stopped using shampoo.

But, diagnosed skin problems, like rosacea, can become severe, permanent and disfiguring if left untreated. So doing less is not always the panacea you have found it to be @sprinklemetinsel .

Although generally, I agree with you.

Argh sorry! Double post. The second has punctuation and paragraphs .

I'm very lucky- my hair and skin have responded to doing less. Lots of people strip their skin and hair with cleansers, then have to condition and moisturise.

God, not a lot at all. I buy 2 for a tenner tresemme when I need it, maybe every 6 weeks and I restock on makeup every year or so, that's around £30. Every now and again I dye my hair so maybe £30-£50 on dye. I can't remember the last time I went to the hair dresser, I do it myself...

Used to be about £100 a month now it's more like £100 a year

I dread to think.
Monthly facials £50
Hair cut and colour every 5 weeks £100
I use Dermalogica products so a fair bit on that.
Probably £2000 a year.

I buy conditioner , but it only gets used once or twice a week so it's not a huge expense
and this year I dyed my hair once ( at home)

No moisturiser, no make up, dh does hair cuts, soap and water to wash with

So probs less than£30 a year

I’ve cut down loads but probably around £50 a month on average. Some months a lot more, some nothing. I cut my own hair though and I imagine that saves a lot!
I have a set few things that are my go to so if I see them on offer I just get them as I know they’ll be used. Do a restock around my birthday too as I just ask for boots gift cards.

Hair - about £800 per year including hairdressers
Beauty, including make up - about £600 per year

I am gobsmacked. I don’t have any spa treatments or mani/pedis or Fillers or Botox or anything like that and I am still spending a fortune.

Re not looking polished despite spending a fortune, I find these help A LOT:

• well-groomed hair that suits you (for me it’s similar to Jennifer Anniston’s haircut)

• well-groomed eyebrows. If you leave a little bushy part, it will lift a few years off your face

I’ve always spent a fair amount on makeup and skincare though that’s reduced since I’ve found products that suit me and stopped experimenting.

Apart from a £15 dry trim twice a year I never spent anything on salon treatments but that’s changed this year as I’ve had Botox and fillers, so I must be at well over £1000 probably close to £2000 if I include the dyson Airwrap.

I can afford it though and don’t spend much on clothes, bags, jewellery etc or on holidays/travelling, so whilst I won’t be buying another expensive gizmo like the Airwrap any time soon I’m not particularly looking to cut back elsewhere.

My biggest expenditure is hairdresser.

250 every 10-12 weeks so probably 1200 a year roughly. However, I use bog standard brands and as I rarely shampoo my hair (it’s bleached so doesn’t get greasy), I only spend on conditioner (daily) which is 2 for £5 in promotion :) so probably 30 quid or so a year

I only wear highlighter, mascara, liquid eyeliner in a pen, powder and bronzer and coloured lip balm- all body shop so I'd say 100 a year. I love mac lipstick but i use it rarely so that’s 20 quid every three years.

3 times a year - profhilo (it’s like subtle moisturising filler) and touch of Botox - 1500 or thereabouts. So actually that's probably my biggest spend.

Cosmetics - I have a non-problematic skin so I don't use specialist products at all. A cheapie "natural" brand is all I use - face cream and body lotion. 30 quid a year is probably right.

Partly because I don't for a moment believe that creams do anything to skin to stop ageing so not going to blow 100 quid on a cream that will do nothing. That's why I invest in medical procedures as above.

I colour and shape my own eyebrows.

Used to do shellac nails for a while but stopped and do my own mani.

Hah! I reckon 120 per year tops- £80 on an annual fancy haircut. I rarely buy hair stuff as i am oddly blessed in relatives who come to stay and leave their shampoo etc behind and don't want it back (maybe they are trying to tell me something?!?).
£20 on nice foundation every two-three years (I just use it as concealer, and rarely use any other makeup).
Skincare I just use cheapo cetraben from the pharmacy as I also have rosacea and that's what I got prescribed (@BeatriceTheBeast What do you use??? I'm intrigued that the same ailment has lead us in opposite skincare directions!)

Hmm. Guessing that I am much older than most of you, but I have my hair cut every 3 or 4 months (have embraced grey as it's currently in vogue, so no colour) which suggests a spend of £200 annually, and hair treatments.

Eyebrows threaded and tinted every six weeks: £20 each time, and pedicures in summer. Shellac nails, about £40 every six weeks for four months.

Plus, £120 pa for Beauty Pie membership, and about £40 on shampoo/conditioner/serum and moisturisers every 2-3 months. Whatever I buy on impulse in Boots/Superdrug I have not counted.

The big money this year has been that I now do Pilates x2 weekly, so spend £100 per month on fitness. Which suggests about £1800-2000 annually. I justify the spend by not going overboard on clothes, and consoling myself that I may be 63, but I am still fit (and my older clothes do too) and presentable and do not look as though I have given up all hope.

I used to run, and could see well enough to do most of the above myself, so this spend is mostly down to my ageing eyes. Without glasses, I can't see my wrinkly bits and could kid myself I am still 40!

@DustyDoorframes

I swear by The Ordinary, but I do think I'm quite odd in that I have rosacea, but my skin is not sensitive. Things like La Roche Posay are too gentle for me and do nothing. Others I've read posts from on here find it very harsh and too much for rosacea skin.

I swear I don't work for them and I first tried it after someone mentioned it on here and I have never looked back.

I had a bad flare up last year (while bfing, so no antibiotics) and was prescribed Azaleic Acid. I find that works quite well if I keep using it. I discovered that I can just buy it from TO, so I buy it from there rather than getting it on prescription, as I live in england and it's cheaper to buy it and saves my time, not to mention the GP's, by not going to them for a prescription. I also use Niacinamide & Zinc, Magnesium Ascorbate (I think that's the name), Alpha Arbutin & HA and a TO moisturiser. Also suncream. No exaggeration; my skin has never looked better since before I first got rosacea diagnosed, which was ten years ago, when I was 26. My skin used to be my weak point and now I frequently get complimented on it and especially by people who have known me a while. I'm fat now though, so they no longer compliment me on my figure .

If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be banging on about skin lotions and potions, I'd have said no way.

My mum looked amazing until she died in her fifties. She looked so much younger than she was, despite not doing anything at all with her skin except a big blue tub of cheap moisturiser. I thought I'd be the same, but I have genuinely found my skin is hugely different since changing products. I'm as surprised as anyone to hear myself say that.

Nothing on hair apart from shampoo

Make up and face wash, moisturiser, bath stuff probably adds up to about £500 a year if I'm being realistic.

@XingMing

I spend the same on yoga as you do on pilates, so if we count that, I am really a spendthrift!

Cut and root touch up cost £365 a year
Gel polish £298
Browns and lashes £120
Hair products probably £75 a year
I don’t wear make up and spend v little on skin care
Gym n swim membership £240
Slimming world £250
Most of my perfumes are gifts

£600 per year on botox
£10 every 3 months hair cut
Make up replace when run out,I use rimmel,max factor,urban decay and benefit

It’s hard to calculate my hair costs because I’ve not long started at a new hairdresser who is better but cheaper. But approx £750 for a year. I get lash extensions and that works out another £550 or so a year. Semi-permanent eyebrows another £150 per year. Botox approx another £500. Lips approx £300 per annum.

I don’t spend a huge amount on makeup. Maybe £200 per year max. But I love skincare so I’d guess at another £500 per year. Do beauty adverts at Xmas count? Tack on another £150.

So approx. £3110. Ouch!

Advents*

Beatrice, we're probably fitter than we would otherwise be, so we can console ourselves by thinking what we're saving the NHS.