Hair stylists' tip?

[elizke]

How much do you tip your hairstylist? I just go to the cheapo place at the mall, nothing fancy; and just a haircut; no wash or dry. Curious if I'm being cheap or overgenerous....

Thanks : )

E.

 

[beckmrk04]

I usually tip mine about 20%- but I get a wash, cut, dry and style. After tip it's about $40.

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

I get my hair cut every three weeks.... as do DH and 2 DS's. Our total cost is just over $40 and I kid you not....... we tip her what she asks for......

Chocolate chip cookies!!!!!!

No, I am not kidding!

 

[sakura-panda]

I tip the same as I do for restaurants.

--Katie

 

[Buttercup26]

20% usually - and I usually know exactly how I want my cut. If I take more time because I'm not sure what I want, asking for style advice, etc.. I'll tip a little more.

 

[kpm76]

Eeek, I think I am cheap I don't tip 20%. My haircut is $60 and when I get a cut and partial foil (highlight) it's $140 so 20% seems like a lot....maybe I need to reconsider though if that's the "norm."

 

[imageid]

I love where we go for haircuts!! They do not accept tips! They say the best tip you can give is word of mouth! I don't feel prices are extra high, wash w/hand massage, cut & style $50!

 

[DaisyD]

At least 25%. I have had her for a while and really love the cuts she gives. She colors great too.

 

[Aimeedyan]

I used to pay 20% but my new salon builds a tip into the price and don't accept tips =)

 

[tiggerlover]

I usually tip 20% for wash/cut/blow dry and 15% when I get highlights. At Christmas I give her a 50% tip and a little something.

 

[Meriweather]

20%

And a color, partial foil and haircut for me is $150...so $30 tip.

 

[Good Ol Gal]

I pay 20% or $20, whichever is higher, when I get my hair colored. If I get just my roots done it's $50, all over and highlights are $120. It can add up but I put that in my budget as part of the cost of getting my hair done.

I tried to go to another place to save some $$ and this is what I got:

I took this picture two days after she did my roots and highlights... can you tell that anything had been done?? does it not look like I stilll have roots??!!

I went in to show her since she said she "guaranteed" her work (and was owner of the salon). She kept telling me that is was the "same color" nothing looked different. nothing looked bad. She even had other people come over to say "looks fine to me"

I will NEVER go to another place again! I never had her do it again b/c who knew what it would have looked like after that. I just went back to my regular place and shucked out the extra bucks.

 

[swea_pea1]

I just went today....tipped a little over 20% because she told me she's going to be out for a while with gall bladder surgery. Been there/done that, so I bumped it up a little bit.

 

[ducklite]

I tip 20% but round it up to an even amount, so it actually works out to about 22%. My stylist is from "back home", actually we have a lot of mutual friends, so it's really nice to get my hair done, we have a lot of laughs and catch up on gossip. And she TAWKS LIKE ME.

Anne (Who'd rather "stand online for 'cawfee' then go down the shore" than ever be "fixin' to get a cup of coffee and go to the beach with ya'll")

 

[elizke]

Well thanks everyone! I'm so relieved. I've always tipped 20%. My husband tips more, and lately made me think I was being cheap. I'd hate to think I was being stingy all these years.

That one who says word of mouth is the best tip, with hand massages, I might be willing to forgo the cheap mall route to go there!

E.

 

[elizke]

I tip 20% but round it up to an even amount, so it actually works out to about 22%. My stylist is from "back home", actually we have a lot of mutual friends, so it's really nice to get my hair done, we have a lot of laughs and catch up on gossip. And she TAWKS LIKE ME.

Anne (Who'd rather "stand online for 'cawfee' then go down the shore" than ever be "fixing to get a cup of coffee and go to the beach with ya'll")

He he. I remember years ago we took a trip to New York to visit my husband's relatives, then drove down the coast to North Carolina to vacation with my family. In the morning the waitress asked if we wanted some coawfee, and by the evening stop the waitress asked if we wanted cawfee....I love the variety.

E.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

How would you all have handled this? Yesterday I got a perm. The owner is my stylist and was in charge of the perm. She rolled the perm, but then turned me over to the shampoo person (it's how it's done there and I'm fine with it--she's more than just a shampoo person and knows how to actually give perms, but her usual job is the shampooing). Anyway, Theresa, the shampoo person, did all the solutions, with the stylist checking at one point to see if it was time to rinse me. Other than that I didn't see the stylist until after I was unrolled and toweled off and all she then did was to blow it out somewhat with the diffusser. No haircut. The total bil was $80 and I tipped $16 total and I split it evenly between the 2, figuring that the rolling was the tedius part, but that the solutions took time, too, even though they could be done between shampooing other people. Fair?

 

[swea_pea1]

How would you all have handled this? Yesterday I got a perm. The owner is my stylist and was in charge of the perm. She rolled the perm, but then turned me over to the shampoo person (it's how it's done there and I'm fine with it--she's more than just a shampoo person and knows how to actually give perms, but her usual job is the shampooing). Anyway, Theresa, the shampoo person, did all the solutions, with the stylist checking at one point to see if it was time to rinse me. Other than that I didn't see the stylist until after I was unrolled and toweled off and all she then did was to blow it out somewhat with the diffusser. No haircut. The total bil was $80 and I tipped $16 total and I split it evenly between the 2, figuring that the rolling was the tedius part, but that the solutions took time, too, even though they could be done between shampooing other people. Fair?

I think it's generally accepted that you don't tip the owner, so I'd have only tipped the shampoo girl. I think what you did was fair though because I wouldn't have tipped the shampoo girl the whole 20% anyway.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I think it's generally accepted that you don't tip the owner, so I'd have only tipped the shampoo girl. I think what you did was fair though because I wouldn't have tipped the shampoo girl the whole 20% anyway.

I've always wondered about the owner thing. I started tipping her when I first started going to her years ago at another salon when she wasn't the owner. Then when she went in with someone else and they opened up their own salon and I continued to tip her. Maybe next time I will ask her if most people tip her since she is the owner--I know her well enough that I would feel comfortable asking her that, especially if there weren't a lot of other customers in there.

 

[crz4mm2]

My stylist charges 18 bucks for a cut and style. I give her 5 bucks for a tip.
(and she IS the owner if the shop... I have been going to her for years. She used to work for someone else- two different shops, before opening her own place). I have never given it a second thought NOT to tip her. She does have a shampoo person some of the time and I just write out the check. I imagine she shares with the shampoo person...