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).

I spend a lot but it's less than a third of my salary and makes me happy

I worked out about £3500 pa (1 month's salary). Not too bad, I think I am low maintenance compared to my friends.

Never counted it up. It varies. I used to spend a lot on perfume but I went full PFB and didn't wear perfume or use scented shower gel/soap for 2 years so I saved some money there.

This year I've probably spent about;

• £40 on perfume samples and about
• £60 on makeup.

I haven't had my hair cut in about 6 years and I'm not bothered about skin care. I also didn't bother shaving my legs for about 2 years.

Wow what do your friends do? my DH thinks I am very high maintenance because I cannot fit all my makeup and skincare into 2 airport approved tiny plastic bags. We also have to pay for check in luggage. That is not factored in my budget!

But while I use premium makeup, i actually find i spend a similar amount compared to when I used budget brands. I find I buy less. I take my makeup everywhere and cheap makeup tends to break really easily so I was constantly buying replacements. My charlotte tilbury mini contour kit has lasted over a year and is still going strong. My Suqqu foundation lasted over half a year with daily usage.

How are you calculating your make up/skincare spend?

I look at my credit card spending on my app for the past year- anything that is Boots/Superdrug/Space NK/Lookfantastic/London Heathrow etc etc Of course if its a 0.99 transaction in Boots, its probably for a chocolate bar and not makeup so I discount that. Equally a few of the transactions that I have included may be for something banal like panadol and plasters but that wouldn't be significant

All my spending is on my credit card which I pay off every month. I also look at my overseas bank account and I roughly remember how much I spent at DM (german drugstore).

Probably about £100 a year including the £40 I estimated for hair on the other thread. I occasionally buy skincare brands like the ordinary but mostly stick to trusty E45/Aveeno (I have eczema on my face).

I have a lot of guilt about spending roughly 1000 a year on botox. But I cut my own hair, dye my own eyebrows and lashes (10 quid for a bottle which lasts forever) spend about 10 pounds a year buying a new mascara. Use bepanthen as lip balm. Don't shave. Tretinoin from oversees pharmacy is only around 30 pounds a year. I spend too much on suncream but see that as more of a health care product.

I'm thinking about getting lip blushing/lip tattooing as lipsticks dry my lips out and never stay on, has anyone had it?

I’ve just done the Maths for the first time ever. Eek.

Per year:

Hair £400 (3 x £100 hair cut including Olaplex. Long straight hair doesn’t need cutting more than that. Box dye at home.)

Make-up £250 (budget brand other than Nars concealer & foundation and Laura Mercier setting powder).

Skincare £200 (very low maintenance - Avene cleanser, CeraVe mousturiser, Vichy sunscreen).

Pedicures in the summer £200
Do my own nails - equipment maybe £40

= £1,090

Seems quite low maintenance compared to others, but I’d like to reduce that by about half ideally. I’d have to find dupes for my make up brands and get a cheaper hairdresser, but not sure if that’s realistic.

I also have a perfume habit that I’m trying to rein in…

But get most of my clothes secondhand.
I think I’m doing OK.

No I’ve mistyped! Skincare isn’t £200, it’s about £100! So that’s under a grand a year, which feels better

Hair - I cut and highlight my own and sometimes add colour (pink etc). Less than £100 a year maybe including shampoo conditioner etc.
Nails - same only Barry M nail polish I’ve worn for years - £6 a year!
Makeup - around £100 a year. I buy a lot of ELF.
Fake tan - probably about £50 a year.
Fun extras (eyeshadow, new nail polish for Christmas) and fails (rubbish new hair oil, crap fake tan or the likes), or something else that tempted me probably about £100 a year.

Annually:
Hair £1500
Waxing £160
Make up £0
Skincare approx £120 but I bought a lot of 'bargains' in lock down so nothing for 18months
Lasering for acne discolouration £150

But v low clothing costs and I don't use a handbag so none there
Yeah, I justify my hair costs in this way 🤷‍♀️

£250-300 on skincare
£100 on threading
£30 on wax and strips (do my own at home)
£200 on hair cuts and keratin treatments
£100 on nails (get them done before special occasion or holiday otherwise I don't bother)
£20 max on make up (don't wear on daily basis so only ever buy eye make up when expires)
Misc £100 for shampoo, soap, suncreams etc

Hoping to have laser hair removal soon which will bump up cost in short term but then can stop waxing

Haircut two or three times a year (shortish to very short) - £150
cleanser and moisturiser from supermarket - goodness knows. £10?
shower gel, shampoo, body lotion from supermarket - ditto. £10?
deodorant - still using up a stick, no idea what I spend. less than £5?
sunscreen - have stayed in a lot instead recently. again, less than £5?
nail varnish - when I get round to it, on my toes, using up stuff from years ago
make-up - about 3 times a year, so haven't actually bought any for a while
hair removal - use an electric shaver. batteries per year ??? say £1
scent - no idea, I get people to buy it as presents - I have cheap tastes, say £20
fake tan, hair colour, injections, facials, manicures - don't use them
glasses - unfortunately need expensive ones with a new prescription every couple of years, so - about £300

Total £500 a year

I honestly wouldn’t even want to fully tally it up
however off the top of my head
£10 a month contact lenses
£100 hair every 3 - 4 months
£25 skin+me monthly
£8 eyebrows every 4 weeks
£30 nails maybe 5 times over the year
£50 professional makeup a couple of times a year for weddings etc

but that’s before I get onto all the normal stuff shampoo, moisturiser etc and I usually get 1-2 beauty advent calendars.
I figure I haven’t started paying for Botox etc yet and I don’t generally spend loads on clothes