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Hair cut every couple of months - 60 bucks + 20 tip = 80 bucks.
Shampoo (again every few months - this stuff lasts - 10 oz bottle costs 20 bucks but you use a tiny dime size)
Moisturizer (face, body) - 100 bucks a year
Facials (professional at a 100 bucks a pop) - probably 3 a year
Facials at home...probably 30 bucks a year
Bottle of Chanel perfume - $100 bucks a year
Don't do my nails
Rarely wear make-up
Mouthwash/toothpastes - $40 a year tops
Shaving stuff is maybe 20 bucks a year
Then in December I found the Creaclip after searching Youtube for videos on how to trim layers around the front of my hair. All these girls on Youtube were using the Creaclip and I decided to buy one.
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Wow! You learn something new every day! Sounds super neat.
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Most women I know get them done every TWO weeks, NOT twice a week.
Hmmm..don't their nails chip? Or do they remove and polish between manicures?
I confess, the primary reason I get so many manicures is because I don't know how to paint my own nails...and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the patience to start. The first mani of the week I get a cuticle trim, and the second I just let them do a nail re-paint.
I get my hair trimmed by my sister for free once a month or so, and maybe once a year I actually go in and have a cut done. $60 including tip once a year. I dye my hair every few weeks (just the roots) but I use 'professional' stuff that I buy once a year or so for $25ish.
I don't get manicures or pedicures (kinda pointless when you have your hands stuck in an engine most of the week ) and very rarely wear makeup so probably less than $50 a year on that. Me and my sister share lotions and face/body wash so that's probably less than $50 a year total.
There are a lot of things I'd rather spend my money on than beauty products.
I don't get manicures or pedicures rarely wear makeup so probably less than $50 a year on that.
share lotions and face/body wash so that's probably less than $50 a year total.
There are a lot of things I'd rather spend my money on than beauty products.
OP, try a shellac manicure (gel polish)...doesn't chip, stays shiny and stays on until you take it off. A regular mani costs about $25...french or american tips are slightly more (which is what I get).
$60 haircut every 4 months or so
$43 every 3 weeks for a manicure
$40 every month for a pedi
$70 every month for waxing
*All of the above includes tips.
$10 a month for body creams and hair product
$100 a year or so for make-up. (I figure $10 every 3 months for mascara, $50 for mineral make-up, lip gloss and eye shadow/liner $20 a year).
I am mostly low maintenance:
Hair: every 3-4 months I get haircut/relaxer: $120 including tip
Nails: Pedicures once in a while, maybe every other month: $30
Makeup: I don't wear much so it averages to maybe $10 a month -- maybe. I wear eyeliner, mascara and lip balm on a regular basis. Everything else only happens a few times a month
Skincare: I have dry skin, so I spend lots on lotion. I am also slowly converting to natural skincare products, so this is my most expensive beauty category: ~$20-30 a month for face cream, eye cream, toner, face wash, shower gel, body lotion, sunscreen
Fragrance: I buy 1-2 a year so $100
Do you think it's more or less than average? If so why?
I was just thinking about this and figured out a breakdown of my expenses (weekly):
-400 on hair every two months which figures out to 50 dollars weekly.
-Manicures twice a week, 14 dollars weekly.
-Makeup, at least 15 dollars weekly.
Hair removal cost is negligible, seeing I shave. I also don't spend money on expensive face creams, use regular lotion.
That's what's off the the top of my head at the moment.
I doubt I will ever divulge the exact amount I spend (since I try to avoid talking exact numbers, religion, or politics).
However, the amount I spend on beauty is directly related to my age. As my age increases, so does my beauty budget (and I'm okay with that, since I'm very frugal, some say too frugal, in all other areas of my life - for me, beauty is my one splurge and guilty pleasure, and it sure beats drinking, smoking, or gambling ).
I have noticed, though, that what I spent my beauty money on in my teens (nail polish and hair spray) is very different from my 20s (nail salons and highlights), which is very different from my 30s (microdermabrasion and electrolysis).
I must say, though, that I offset my more expensive treatments in my 30s, by giving up what I used to spend it on in my 20s (no more highlights, no more expensive perfumes--well, I still have one, but rarely wear it--, I use less expensive makeup now, I do my own mani / pedis, no more spa massages, my hair is long so it's cut less frequently, etc -- at my age, I'd much rather put all that money to use erasing any future wrinkles that might be thinking about setting up camp on my face when I smile lol -- and it must be paying off because I get comments on it fairly frequently, people asking what I do for my skin).
All I have to say is thank GOODNESS for science. I only hope facelifts look more realistic before I actually need one. lol
Do you think it's more or less than average? If so why?
I was just thinking about this and figured out a breakdown of my expenses (weekly):
-400 on hair every two months which figures out to 50 dollars weekly.
-Manicures twice a week, 14 dollars weekly.
-Makeup, at least 15 dollars weekly.
Hair removal cost is negligible, seeing I shave. I also don't spend money on expensive face creams, use regular lotion.
That's what's off the the top of my head at the moment.
Let's see, one bottle of shampoo every month or so for daily washing hair in the shower, no hair salon, no manicure or pedicure, no makeup.
Disposable razer $1.00/3, barbasol shave cream $1.89.
$1.59, $1.00 on sale (shampoo), shave cream $1.89 per year, razer $4.00 per year which equals about $0.31 per week.
Forgot to add toothpaste which is baking soda so I'll round up to $20.00 per year which is $0.38 per week.
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) and very rarely wear makeup so probably less than $50 a year on that. Me and my sister share lotions and face/body wash so that's probably less than $50 a year total.
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