Tipping At The Hairdressers!!

[dispenser]

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with my dilemma. I go to a great hairdressers where one young lady cuts and colours my hair but often it's one of her colleagues who blowdrys my hair. I would like to show my appreciation by tipping but to tip two people who have both done a good job on top of the cost of the hair dressing is very costly and they don't have a joint tip box. Next time I go will also be just before Christmas too. I really don't know how to deal with this on a 6 weekly basis. Have any other ladies encountered a situation like this or are there any hairdressers out there who could suggest a solution. Many thanks

[woofgang]

I have a similar thing where one lady might wash my hair and another cut and dry it. I decide what the total tip would be and then apportion it between the two.

[atalanta]

You really do have to tip both.

[Cloverjo]

I share whatever total tip I've chosen to give between the two women. Unless the one who cuts and colours is the owner, in which case I'd only tip the one who did the drying.

[Slapshot]

Leave enough of a tip to cover both.....

[MrEe]

ask the hairdressers what they do with tips - mine shares fairly between all which seems the best way to me as one may wash, another cut/dry, but another has bought me a coffee, etc. and it's often different people from the time before so I figure evens self out over time.

[RATTER15]

Leave tip in a sealed envelope with their names on it at the till if you want tip both. Personally I wouldn't be tipping at all. They get paid to do their job.

[Cloverjo]

Ratter, yes people get paid to do their jobs, but if the convention is for certain people to get tips, it's best to tip them if you want to go back to the place. It seems unfair that waitresses, taxi drivers and hair washers/dryers get tips while shop assistants and care workers don't, but that's the way society works.

[AlwaysConfused]

I rarely tip. How mean of me!

[Prudie]

I only ever tip the junior who washes my hair. If you feel bad for the Christmas appointment just take in a box of Heroes (for example)or some other choc that can be shared.

[Deskdiary]

I couldn't agree with Ratter more if I tried.

I never tip.

When I go to a barber to have my hair cut I pay exactly the amount they charge for the hair cut; presumably this has been set at a level to cover overheads and a bit of profit and therefore it is completely alien to me why I would pay them more than the cost of the haircut.

I wouldn't dream of giving my dentist a 10% tip for his service, so why would I do so for my barber.

Same with restaurants - I have paid for my food and therefore it is tacit that the cost of the food includes the cost of bringing the food to me.

[Cloverjo]

Ok deskdiary. You might find you get the table near the loos next time you go.

[Maydup]

The tradition in the hairdressers is different to the barbers and us girls tend to tip. I tip at the till because I don't know how much it is until I get there and then I leave something close to 10% to the stylist. The junior whi washes and sweeps will have her day in the future!

[ummmm]

I just round it up....It's just easier.

[B00]

I never understand this tipping lark either.

I do, because you more or less have to, it's expected of you, but I do it whilst inwardly begrudging it.

[mrs_overall]

I don't tip, but at Christmas and on my hairdresser's birthday I buy her presents or put money in the cards

[atalanta]

I tip heavily because I get better service if I do. Waiters and hairdressers have an excellent memory for good tippers.

[Retrochic]

I pay £120 to have my hair done by the owner of the salon I don't tip -ever.

[Retrochic]

atalanta if you have to tip at an establishment to get good service I would stop going .

[Maydup]

I am not loyal enough to save the tip to Christmas, I flit from place to place.