Tipping for expensive salon visits

[Anonymous]

I think tipping at hair salons is ridiculous, except the shampoo people. I tend to give the shampoo person $10 and I do not tip the stylist. The cut is $145. Took 45 minutes with blow dry. Seems enough to me.

[Anonymous]

Hell No, If it is an owner, and they do your hair or work then 20% tip is not needed since they keep all the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have fun on the Bolt Bus!

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

And people like her who complain about having to tip. Or don’t tip due to lack of funds.

[Anonymous]

20%

[Anonymous]

I always, always tip my girl 25%. She is worth every penny.

[Anonymous]

I have wavy/curly hair and had been going to the same place for 15 years. I was charged $180 for the cut and diffusing (so not even a blowout) - 30 minutes total. I decided then and there that cutting hair can't be THAT hard. Spent a couple of hours trolling youtube and instagram and learned a couple of techniques for cutting curly hair. Y'all -- my hair looks so much better than it ever did going to the salon. No one knows better than me where my cowlicks and kinks are, which part of my hair tends to go flat, and what I really want it to look like. I've been cutting my own hair since 2021 and am never going back to a salon. Never paying $200+ ever again for a mediocre haircut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1000

[Anonymous]

What if the stylist is the owner of the salon? Should I still tip? In this scenario, I only tip the shampoo person.

[Anonymous]

I'm happy to tip 20% but I hate places where there is a separate person to blowdry that I have to tip as well along with the shampoo person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have wavy/curly hair and had been going to the same place for 15 years. I was charged $180 for the cut and diffusing (so not even a blowout) - 30 minutes total. I decided then and there that cutting hair can't be THAT hard. Spent a couple of hours trolling youtube and instagram and learned a couple of techniques for cutting curly hair. Y'all -- my hair looks so much better than it ever did going to the salon. No one knows better than me where my cowlicks and kinks are, which part of my hair tends to go flat, and what I really want it to look like. I've been cutting my own hair since 2021 and am never going back to a salon. Never paying $200+ ever again for a mediocre haircut.

Me too! I learned to cut my own hair and it looks exactly like it did at the salon. I have straight fine hair and it takes me literally less than ten minutes. So for all of you that say if you’re too cheap to tip then don’t go to the salon…that’s what I did and I couldn’t be happier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what you tip for expensive color, cuts or keratin. I just went in for a $425 hair appointment that lasted two hours - am I supposed to tip 15% on that??

It's 20%. But yes.

No it's not, it's 10-15% on something that large. I'm not tipping $100 that's insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I tip, but I think prices here for salon services are crazy. I get that real estate is high and people need more to live, but they are living better than I am as a customer.

This.
My hair stylist makes more per hour than my physician SIL at Kaiser and doesn’t have hundreds of thousands in student loans and years and years of training.

Oh, and no tips on services.

No tipping is a good way for your stylist suddenly having no room for you in her schedule.

I was referring to physicians not getting tipped

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tip, but I think prices here for salon services are crazy. I get that real estate is high and people need more to live, but they are living better than I am as a customer.

This.
My hair stylist makes more per hour than my physician SIL at Kaiser and doesn’t have hundreds of thousands in student loans and years and years of training.

Oh, and no tips on services.

No tipping is a good way for your stylist suddenly having no room for you in her schedule.

I was referring to physicians not getting tipped

Sorry- part of the thread above

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if the stylist is the owner of the salon? Should I still tip? In this scenario, I only tip the shampoo person.

I never know what to do since my stylist is the owner. I still tip - but always think maybe I don’t really have to? What do others do?

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand this. Most stylists rent their chair at a salon, and so are independent business owners aren’t they? Do they have control over the business they take (the services they provide?) Surely they aren’t making $15/hr on the $450 service. Tipping in this scenario should only be about the extra staff.

I say this as someone who worked in a spa before, I was paid 40% of the fee. A tip was a rounding error on an already reasonable pay for a job well done, not doubling my base.