Cost of living - Cutting back on hair/beauty

[BeachTree]

I'm considering cutting back on my 8 weekly hair cut and colour and trying to stretch it out a bit ( or a big bit ,yikes). Beauty treatments might need to go all together :( Is anyone else stripping back on these things too with the current shambles? I am useless at doing things myself ie nails etc... so I don't think that's an option sadly :(

You prefer a slave to being one? 😂

Well thanks to this thread I googled the local beauty college. The prices are amazing! I have straight hair and have been begrudging paying so much to get it trimmed - the cut literally takes 10 mins. The beauty college is £10! They also do an all inclusive annual pass for £150 a year 😮

The only beauty treatment I have is highlights 8-9 weekly & a trim 12 weekly... I'm rubbish at home hair colour and have some frizzy white hair so my hairdresser is essential to me... especially as I'm single and want to attract a (maybe younger) boyfriend...

I don't need to buy any new winter clothes though so that's one saving!

You are brave. I did a NVQ 2 beauty therapy course for fun and hated doing arms. I much preferred sugaring to waxing the underarm area and that might be an option to preserve your marriage!

No, but I only get my hair and nails done. Hair probably twice a year…
I don’t get Botox or anything (probably need it 😆)

Embrace the grey !!!🤭

Just a thought most beauty professionals are women. Many single mums. I am in the beauty industry but I try to support small local salons. Colleges are great but the service needs to be checked so will take longer. You certainly will never go out looking a fright!
Lots of good products at Aldi and Boots £9.99 face glow creme is based on a famous Japanese one at £95.

I'm absolutely not going to cut back on hair cuts, but I don't know what to do about the high & low lights I usually have every 12 weeks or so. I might look into the local college salon, if there is one, and see what they offer.

I prefer silicone free shampoos and am using a Redken one just now, but I found a Herbal Essences one that's silicone free and considerably cheaper so I'll give that a try. I only wash and style my hair twice a week so, again, the products I already have will last me ages.

I usually have a monthly pedicure, but £30 a time is silly when I can do it at home, with the help of my husband. I also have the stuff I need to tint my own brows & lashes so I won't have that done in a salon any more.

The makeup I have will last me for ages and, when something runs out, I'll look on Amazon to see if I can save on it.

I really need to remember I have tonnes of stuff and don't need to buy any more. And resolve to stick to it!

Got quoted £200 today by a local suburban salon, nowhere special, for an under dye ( ie top hair one colour and underlayer another).

Fuck that, I'll have to stay one colour
Salon wanted £70 just to strip out the old colour then £100 for the 2 colours and cut on top

Think they realised they'd over priced themselves when I said I'd think about it and walked out.