I’m with you all the way @coatimundi! Totally hate it. Put myself through it last week, spent the usual fortune (plus tip on top as I daren’t not) for husband to say 3 days later - ‘have you had your hair cut or something?’.
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yes yes and yes!
I went last August just before I got married, and that was because my husband to be had bought me vouchers for a trendy hairdressers (before that it was about 5 years!!)- so I grit my teeth and went. I was fairly pleased with the outcome if only to get a good cut (feels like a fresh start) but it soon wears off when I have to style it myself. I have very fine limp hair, so it’s always a bit of let down (quite literally) hours after it’s been blowdried, and although it’s nice to get it cut properly it seems mighty expensive to only look marginally better than when I do it myself.
plus I absolutely hate having to sit in front of a mirror for any length of time… 
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I find the tip situation rather awkward…one person washes your hair, another cuts / colors it, another styles it…who do you tip?? I can’t choose and I can’t tip everyone.
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I’m such a Scrooge, I don’t believe in tipping people who have a better wage than me. Even waiting on staff make more pennies than I do.
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Glad it’s not just me! Not been to a hairdresser since I was a teenager. I can cut a pretty good bob when I want it shortened and home colouring has always worked fine. Did my own wedding day do too, wouldn’t trust anyone with that! Hubby gets home cuts too, but he is easy, clippers all over
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I’ve not been to a hairdresser since the summer of 1999.
I don’t remember tipping anyone no one ever did that. It cost enough just to have a few tints put in, along with a cut and blow dry.
Go on be radical SHAVE yer HEAD !!
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I must admit I don’t tip as a rule. Why tip I don’t see the need for it after all they get paid to do their jobs so why should I pay them again to do what they are being paid to do.
I’ve never expected customers to give me tips for working in an office.
The only reason I might leave a tip is if the person has gone outside their job remit that’s the only reason to give a tip not when they are doing the job they are being paid to do.
I was disgusted at the weekend by one place my father in law took us out to. When he went to pay the bill they added on a tip as he went to pay with his card. He made them re credit his card. Then made a point of saying, 'Had they not automatically added a tip to his bill he would have left a money tip for the waiter who’d been extra helpful, now he was not going to leave a tip as it was up to the customer if and what tip to leave not the owners of the resturant to make the decision for their customers"
I left tip at my new hairdresser’s the first time I went. But nothing after that. I just can’t afford it. But at Xmas or Easter, I will buy a box of chocolates for everyone who works there. I’ve been going to the same salon for a few years.
I think the whole tip thing should stop. As a customer, I shouldn’t feel responsible for someone else’s staff. I paid for my meal or service, the manager / owner should pay for his staff. How would my customers feel if I went to a craft fair and expected a tip?
I think businesses should hire good people who want to be polite and helpful, give them good training in customer service and pay them well. So customers shouldn’t have to do that. I have stopped going to a few places where staff add the tip on their own.
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A few years ago, I went to a restaurant with a few friends for my birthday and the owner & waiter added the tip in finer print under the cost of the meal and drinks. Then with larger numbers the total. As we had a few drinks, it was easy to overlook that. So cheeky the way he did it. I didn’t realise until the next morning. I was not pleased at all. But I was pleased when I walked by his restaurant a few months later to see it closed for good.
I do leave tips in restaurants, after years of waiting tables myself, doing long anti-social hours and just barely earning minimum wage, and still managing to smile at awkward customers and not scream at people for letting their children run wild. Having said that I only tip GOOD waiting staff, rude and sulky ones get nothing and if a restaurant tried to add a “service charge” to my bill they get nothing no matter how good the staff were 
I don’t like to be made to tip, it should be based on how good your service was 
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I hate it too. And WHY do they always have to blow dry your hair all massive and round…when I asked for
choppy and messy. Jeez.
And, unless you’re at a cutting edge (no pun intended) salon…anything even remotely out of the ‘norm’, they just stare at you like you’re weird.
I tip at the hairdressers when paying, but thats because I think the haircut was too cheap.
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Just returned from my first visit of the year for a haircut - survived the experience and pleased with the result. I do tip my hairdresser but only because she doesn’t really charge enough anyway at only £10 a time - I probably wouldn’t do it in a more expensive salon. I do peoples feet for a living and no one ever tips me (hope thats not a reflection on what they think of the service!) and I don’t expect them to. A few of my regulars buy me biscuits and chocolates at christmas though and one always gives me £10.
Hope you enjoy the wedding
Hope you enjoy the wedding
I hate hairdressers for the self same reasons as you. We have one here in Maidstone that is rather like the barbers. I went in to get my hair cut (about 6 inches off, I do it once a year) I sat down, the european girl cut it (no washing, blow drying or titivating about) and that was that, 20 minutes from start to finish, for £19 brilliant!
Lots of discussion on this tipping thing. I think I said earlier that it does not apply to hairdressers at all because they are technically self employed. They have to pay the salon to work there out of their takings, so tipping is not appropriate because you are paying them for their work.
On the other hand waiting staff are often paid only the minimum wage and rely on their tips to turn that into a living wage, so if a 10% tip is added to the bill I don’t mind at all. I can’t remember having received bad service in a restaurant, maybe I’ve just been lucky!
Sam x
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m so happy to find out I’m not abnormal in hating a visit to the hairdressers. Everyone I work with and all my friends and family spend a lifetime and a fortune at the hairdressers and they make me feel like a weirdo for not liking it.
When I come out with the exact opposite that I asked for, I always feel like charging them instead for damages.
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I’m not a fan… I’ve now taken to doing my own hair.
I went for a cut and colour once, where the hairdresser missed a patch of grey, so her manager had to re-colour it, only that left rings of colour around my hair… and they claimed to have cut it, even though I’m not convinced.
I gave them another chance - it ended up wonky, her colleague spotted it the next day and stopped me in the street to trim it for me (I had to hold her cup of tea while she did it, cigarette hanging from mouth)
Another hairdresser forgot to trim the back so I had chin length at the front and half way down my back behind. Like a really dreadful mullet.
I gave up after the last time where my dad offered to trim the stray bits with the wallpaper scissors.
Now I do it over the sink with a pair of kitchen scissors. Best hair cut I’ve ever had! Doing it again next week, though I’m not holding out much hope for success a second time.
My friend has been doing my hair since I donated my long locks to charity 3 years ago and I was happy with that, we always had a good laugh but she has been off sick since about May last year and not much hope of her going back to work as she has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and is in crippling pain.
I’ve been to a local salon twice and both times they’ve not cut it short enough in the back and then left it too long over my ears. The first time, I came back home and got hubby’s clippers out with the longest cutting thing on it and ran it through my hair at the back and then sorted it out round my ears myself with scissors. I done a better job than she did.
I’ve been doing my own hair like this from time to time over the past several months until this week, when I went back to the salon and saw another hairdresser. Not happy with this one either so the same thing happened when I got home.
I’ve decided that I may as well do my own hair from now on and I might as well buy some thinning scissors to make it easier to do the top layers. Failing that, I’ll just shave it all off and have done with it lol.