How much does your beauty regime cost ?

[onthefencesitter]

I was calculating this for another thread and I realized the breakdown for me on an annual basis is:

1. £510 for skincare and makeup (including holiday spending when I raid overseas drugstores for cheaper products though I also use YSL /suqqu foundation, chanel highlighter, charlotte tilbury and nars blush.
2. £120 for haircuts and box hairdye and Loreal conditioner (started doing a cut and dye in 2020 for £100 every 6 months but soon switched to box hair dye at £15 per box and yearly haircuts)
3. £150 for contact lenses

So in total £890 per year...I don't go for any beauty treatments, remove my upper lip/brow hairs with a trimmer from amazon. I share razors, deodorant, shampoo and shower gel with DH and he buys them in bulk (so they are not expensive, i think).

It would be interesting to see what other women spend on! Based on our general household spending, DH and I are average in the country so it would be interesting to see if I am the same for my beauty spending (which is my main 'vanity' expense as I am not really interested in clothes or shoes).

Nails, waxing and hair is around £2.300 a year.

make up and hair products around £200 a year (I don’t wear much make up)

now skincare is around £6000 a year. They are Sisley products and are…. Cleanser, body exfoliant, face mask, face exfoliant, night cream, eye night cream, serum, day cream plus day eye cream.

Wow! It must be my age two or three haircuts a year, home dye, non branded face cream and a bic if I'm feeling the need ( rarely). Basic branded amke up..
Look OK I think! So couple of hundred tops a year.

I use non branded face creams too, but they aren't the cheapest you can get in the supermarket. cleansing oil (a german one for 2.55 euros or beauty pie), bulldog cleanser, hado labo lotion (cheaper in my home country but £17 here though you can get it for £10 on discount but I usually get it from my home country), alverde rose oil (also 3 euros or so), superdrug serum (£3.50- it used to be £2.50), good old weleda skin food (cheaper in germany), and biore sunscreen (around £10?)

For some reason, me and my friends just aren’t arsed about the whole beauty product things

i literally only use Nivea face cream (It’s the only product I feel actually sinks into my skin whereas any expensive brands sit on top of my skin and feel dry and uncomfortable. Lots of them also make me feel like they are actually burning my skin)

haircut about 3 times a year- my friend is a mobile hair dresser so cheaper than a salon Don’t dye my hair; I’m 43 but don’t have any greys (yet!) but can’t ever imagine being at a point where I go every few weeks to a salon to dye my hair

im olive skinned so don’t need fake tan

I buy razors rather than waxing etc, but only cos I can’t bear the pain of waxing!

i do go every month to have my eyebrows and upper lip threaded, which is about a tenner each time

have only ever had my nails professionally done about 3 times in my life.

i do wear make up most days, so probably spend around £100 a year on new make up

on the occasion I go out somewhere nice, I’ll wear a pack of fake lashes

i look pretty good for 43, pretty much no wrinkles, without all the fancy expensive treatments so have just never felt the need to spend heavily on them. Someone I know my age spends a fortune on all these products and Botox etc but she definitely looks more haggered than me, dropped Jowels and wrinkly chest, so that has put me off tbh.

never been interested in spa days either - couldn’t think of anything more boring hahah

Oh i realized i miscalculated- its £790 per annum for skincare, makeup, haircuts, conditioner, hairdye and contact lenses!

About £1200 includes 2 luxury advent calendars, lashes dyed, massage monthly, hair cuts, hair products and odd bits and bobs

I have never counted it up, but my main costs are:

hair cut every five weeks - £62 each time
Eyebrows every three weeks - £10 a time
(I don’t get any other pro stuff done. Paint my own nails, shave legs, don’t colour my hair)
Skincare is mainly Inkey List so not too £, but I do have Skin + Me at £19.99 a month
Makeup I replace as needed, my most expensive item is Lisa Eldridge foundation (£44). Most of the items I use are premium brands - Nars, Smashbox etc
Perfume I have a lot of, mainly fairly niche, but i wouldn’t say that was a regular spend
Contact lenses I don’t count as beauty but mine are £47 a month now (multi focal dailies)

I think, roughly, around:
£1000 on regular hair cuts and colours.
£200 on Dermatica prescription.
£600 on other skincare
£400 on make up
£600 on haircare
£200 on brow and LVL treatments and
£100 on pedicures (these last two I get infrequently - like before a hol)

So something like £250/month. It sounds like a lot written down! I buy higher end products, could easily cut down costs on hair care, make up and skin care if I needed to and buy cheaper alternatives.

Hair products £200
Skincare I think less than £300
Hairdresser £300-400
Make up, I'd say less than £150
Nails- I do gel nails at home, products last ages, so probably very little amount spent on it

Toiletries- no idea, shower gel, deodorant etc. less than £30 a year?

I started cutting my own hair during lockdown. It's fine and dead straight. I've also got an under-active thyroid which is mostly shit but means I have almost no body hair.
I've become slight addicted to beauty boxes... especially the Latest In Beauty collections so I feel that I have an almost limitless supply of skincare.
Again...since the pandemic a lot less makeup.

£55 cut and colour x 6 = £330

Cerave cleanser and moisturiser £20 x 6 = £120

Face SPF about £50 a year

Make up probably £100 a year max. I buy Boots No7 when they have 3 for 2 offers in

£600 a year ish. I'd like to gwt my nails done but I'm rubbish at anything that needs upkeep!

Less than £100 including hair.

Should you count contact lenses though? That's a health need surely?

I've seen so many posts that inspired me to try cutting my own hair. I hope I won't regret it. Just need a little trim between visits.

I could wear glasses which would be a one off cost and indeed I did from age 8 to age 19. But i wear contacts cos of vanity.... I consider anything beyond shampoo, shower gel, deodorant , toothbrush/toothpaste, hairbrush, sunscreen/moisturizer(for the people with clinically dry skin) to be non-essential 'beauty spending'.

Nothing. Unless we are including shampoo and shower gel/soap?

La Mer range >1000
Botox 1200
Lips 800
Cheeks 800
Eyebrows 200
Nails 6000

Hair 2000

I have very very dry, sensitive, eczema-prone skin, so my skincare costs are high, but I think of them more as health/medicine expenditure rather than beauty - around £250 a year, with roughly £150 of that being more medical than cosmetic.

Hair costs me around £90 a year, with half of that going on hair dye and half on styling products.

Make-up - aound £90 a year.

I get my eyebrows shaped and tinted every 3 months for £20, but that's the first luxury I would drop.
So £80 for eyebrows.

I rarely wear perfume, and I don't really think if it as beauty thing, but more like a sensual pleasure like wine or chocolate. I do have a ridiculously expensive subscription for Akt deodorant, which costs £8 a month. I love the smell. I can't believe I spend £100 a year on deodorant. I might reassess my subscription.

So that's around £600 a year/50 a month in total.

Oh I've never considered it. I got my eyebrows microbladed which was dear and one off but worth it. But that will need topped up at some point for about £150-200.

Then nails £26 every 3 weeks (£450/y)
Eyebrows once every 6 weeks £7.50 (£65/y)

I don't actually buy very much make up especially since working from home. So usually get it as Christmas presents from husband and family. So maybe £100 max.

Contact lenses £20pm (£240/y)

Hair (should go more often) but cut and colour £100 (with family discount) maybe once every 4/5 months and a wee cut in between for about £35. (£270/y)

So I'd say roughly £1500? Not too bad but I'm probably forgetting things I do.

@mattressspring I included soap and shampoo but not toothpaste in n my calculations.

£300 per year for botox.

Oh this is an interesting idea for a thread.

For me currently very very little. DH has cut my hair with the kitchen scissors the past couple of years. He does a pretty good job.

I use revlon foundation and primer and mascara. So maybe £60.00 annually? (I am really guessing).

I use nivea. I shave now.

I am not all that happy with my looks but am consistently thought to be a good 8-10 years younger than I am (I am 50).

Years past though I had an annual budget of £2 k. I often did not spend that much but did hair, colour, monthly facials, do my own nails and feet, that sort of thing.

This coming yeat though I want to get my hair professionally coloured and am considering botox. I plan to go to the local hairdressing college for hair and facials though as I simply do not want to spend the amount of money required usuaally and the local college does a really good job (I have friends who go). £14 for a cut and colour is amazing IMO.

I’m actually scared to do this as I’ve never thought about it so to breakdown:

£66 per month waxing
£100 every 8 weeks hair toner and cut
£20 month shampoo
£240 every 2 months skincare
probably £500 per annum make up
miscellaneous £100 razors, shower gel etc

so £3572 I think, that’s 3 months salary to me 😳