Tipping your Hairdresser if she ..... - Beauty & Cosmetics Message Board

here4support · 01-21-2005, 08:27 AM

How much would you tip your hairdresser if she rents out a chair at a privately owned salon. The money I pay her for my haircut $32- goes all to her. She only rents her chair out. So she is actually working for herself. I couldn't imagine tipping 15 to 20% for that.....

Blue-eyedBelle · 01-21-2005, 08:38 AM

Well, IMHO, part of that still goes to pay for the chair, so it's not all going in her pocket - she's using part of it for expenses. I would still tip 15% - I'd probably just round it off to $5.

rockcreek · 01-21-2005, 02:11 PM

My hairdresser is like that too. All the money she makes goes to her. I don't tip her for that reason. I usually get her a Christmas gift or if I see something I think she might like I'll get it for her. (she likes odd colored nail polish) I go every month and it hurts enough just to pay for what I do get done without adding more to it. If she had a problem with it I think she would have said something. Instead she always trys to find time for me. She knows it takes along time to build a business and someone coming 1x a month is steady income.

queenpooch · 01-22-2005, 12:44 PM

I always tip, even if he or she is the owner of the salon. What's another $5 if you can find someone who is good with your hair? Besides, generosity takes on a life of it's own. Who knows, maybe that night, that same hairdresser will go out to a restaurant and give the struggling college student a little extra tip. Then the next day, that college student might give the guy at the car wash an extra buck because of the hairdresser's generosity. And so it goes...

Blue70 · 01-23-2005, 02:39 AM

5 dollars if you like the job she does.