Tipping for expensive salon visits

[Anonymous]

Have fun on the Bolt Bus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have fun on the Bolt Bus!

Don't you know? The Bolt bus is for hairstylist tier incomes Service workers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look you can tip like shit if you want to. But if your stylist is good, don’t be surprised when you try to book again and they are “booked up already”. That’s because you’ve been black balled for being shitty.

Not one person has said they stiff. Not one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look you can tip like shit if you want to. But if your stylist is good, don’t be surprised when you try to book again and they are “booked up already”. That’s because you’ve been black balled for being shitty.

If someone leaves without tipping you, it probably means YOU've been blackballed for being shitty (at your job). Don't try to turn it around.

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Anonymous wrote:Look you can tip like shit if you want to. But if your stylist is good, don’t be surprised when you try to book again and they are “booked up already”. That’s because you’ve been black balled for being shitty.

That's fine with me as I've never found a good stylist in the DC area and I've been to several. All the good ones, understandably, leave and go to more creative places with a more vibrant creative community and opportunities for exposure, aka New York or LA or Miami or pretty much anywhere else where the standard hair isn't "mom bob with brown highlights."

Dying hair is actually incredibly simple and not a complicated process at all, and yet most hairstylists arent exactly rocket scientists and still find a way to mess it up. And yet they will be haughty and act like theyre doing life saving work.

I have tipped good hairstylists huge amounts and am happy to do so. Most of the incompetent clowns here in the DC area who give you attitude AS they mess up your hair and give you date highlights don't deserve a tip at all.

I can literally hear you getting black balled as I was reading this.

From subpar DC salons? LOL. Who cares? I've been to several in DC and they've all emailed/texted/ mailed me after thanking me for my visit and ostensibly inviting me back. But I'm not interested because most are so poor. I'm gonna try a few more here in DC until I find one that's actually good, or just start travelling to New York to get my hair done. Most of the hairstylists here are shockingly incompetent and also very out of date and unstylish

What percentage do you generally tip in New York?

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Anonymous wrote:Look you can tip like shit if you want to. But if your stylist is good, don’t be surprised when you try to book again and they are “booked up already”. That’s because you’ve been black balled for being shitty.

That's fine with me as I've never found a good stylist in the DC area and I've been to several. All the good ones, understandably, leave and go to more creative places with a more vibrant creative community and opportunities for exposure, aka New York or LA or Miami or pretty much anywhere else where the standard hair isn't "mom bob with brown highlights."

Dying hair is actually incredibly simple and not a complicated process at all, and yet most hairstylists arent exactly rocket scientists and still find a way to mess it up. And yet they will be haughty and act like theyre doing life saving work.

I have tipped good hairstylists huge amounts and am happy to do so. Most of the incompetent clowns here in the DC area who give you attitude AS they mess up your hair and give you date highlights don't deserve a tip at all.

I can literally hear you getting black balled as I was reading this.

From subpar DC salons? LOL. Who cares? I've been to several in DC and they've all emailed/texted/ mailed me after thanking me for my visit and ostensibly inviting me back. But I'm not interested because most are so poor. I'm gonna try a few more here in DC until I find one that's actually good, or just start travelling to New York to get my hair done. Most of the hairstylists here are shockingly incompetent and also very out of date and unstylish

What percentage do you generally tip in New York?

I can be a very generous tipper so I have tipped $150 on a $350 bill but that was for exceptional service. Actually one of my hairdresser friends is always badgering me to tip less. Generally I've been trying to stay about 20% for good service which is pretty standard.

[Anonymous]

^And I will say- if the hairstylist does a bad job, it's okay to leave without tipping, or to call back and have them redo it. My friend who is a hairstylist is the one who has strongly advocated for this and he's right. It's not really an industry where tipping is absolutely standard, and so many hairstylists do a subpar job expecting to get tipped even if the woman leaves looking like a cracked out skunk with streaks in her hair. If they dont do a good job, they need to fix it and get the color right. Or just not get a tip. But tips are for GOOD service, not someone haphazardly messing around with your hair. Bleach is super cheap, developer is super cheap (I mean pennies cheap), you're paying them to paint it on to your hair which is about as simple as it gets. If they cant get it done well, then them collecting their half from the salon for your service is more than enough. No additional tip needed. And my hairdresser friends gets absolutely disgusted with the laziness of a majority of the hairstylists around here

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Anonymous wrote:Look you can tip like shit if you want to. But if your stylist is good, don’t be surprised when you try to book again and they are “booked up already”. That’s because you’ve been black balled for being shitty.

That's fine with me as I've never found a good stylist in the DC area and I've been to several. All the good ones, understandably, leave and go to more creative places with a more vibrant creative community and opportunities for exposure, aka New York or LA or Miami or pretty much anywhere else where the standard hair isn't "mom bob with brown highlights."

Dying hair is actually incredibly simple and not a complicated process at all, and yet most hairstylists arent exactly rocket scientists and still find a way to mess it up. And yet they will be haughty and act like theyre doing life saving work.

I have tipped good hairstylists huge amounts and am happy to do so. Most of the incompetent clowns here in the DC area who give you attitude AS they mess up your hair and give you date highlights don't deserve a tip at all.

When I moved to DC and looked for a stylist, my friends highly recommends this Asian stylist that supposedly specialize in Japanese cut and color. And I checked out his portfolio where it literally came out of 2003 and not progressed a single day.

Oh and I think my friend is still mad at me for not wanting to go there with her lol

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Anonymous wrote:Look you can tip like shit if you want to. But if your stylist is good, don’t be surprised when you try to book again and they are “booked up already”. That’s because you’ve been black balled for being shitty.

That's fine with me as I've never found a good stylist in the DC area and I've been to several. All the good ones, understandably, leave and go to more creative places with a more vibrant creative community and opportunities for exposure, aka New York or LA or Miami or pretty much anywhere else where the standard hair isn't "mom bob with brown highlights."

Dying hair is actually incredibly simple and not a complicated process at all, and yet most hairstylists arent exactly rocket scientists and still find a way to mess it up. And yet they will be haughty and act like theyre doing life saving work.

I have tipped good hairstylists huge amounts and am happy to do so. Most of the incompetent clowns here in the DC area who give you attitude AS they mess up your hair and give you date highlights don't deserve a tip at all.

When I moved to DC and looked for a stylist, my friends highly recommends this Asian stylist that supposedly specialize in Japanese cut and color. And I checked out his portfolio where it literally came out of 2003 and not progressed a single day.

Oh and I think my friend is still mad at me for not wanting to go there with her lol

Any good hairstylist here leaves for big cities where there are vibrant young people where they can do pastel hair, balyage highlights, extreme bleaching, and all the creative parts that make a job fun and interesting. Anyone left doing brown highlights for 65 year old lobbyist wives hates their job and doesnt give a S about it anyway

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Anonymous wrote:If you can't afford an $80 tip, you can't afford a $400 haircut. This is all cringe.

YES! [phone]

OP here. I didn't get a $400 haircut. I had a $400 keratin treatment.