Tipped at the salon

[Deleted]

I always tip 20% excluding products.

[veruca5839]

I always tip 20%.

[futurepivko]

I tip about 20%...on Saturday I should've tipped less because it wasn't the best experience.

She left me 4 times with my hair wet and hanging in my face to go to the break room and text or go to the bathroom. Uh, yeah. I like her, and it's awful having to find a new hair girl when you move. It was just awkward. Especially when the other hair stylists kept joking it (HEY COME HERE! kind of thing).

[FormerCityGirl]

I do 20% for my cut, color, and blow drying.

[FormerCityGirl]

Jun 5, 2012 8:07:28 GMT -5 @mavjen said:

Oh future, tabitha from makeover salon would have ripped your hairstylist a new asshole for leaving you in the chair to go text, etc. very unprofessional. I would understand if she had an assistant attend to you while she stepped away, but not more than once. But if you were alone in the chair, no bueno.

My salon owner would do the same. The only time that I've ever seen my stylist with her phone was to take before and after pictures of me for her FB and the salon's FB pages to be published with my permission. The only time I'm ever left is under the dryer and I always get checked up on at least every 10 minutes. She's even chatted fashion with me during downtime when she's not mixing something for me and has no other clients.

I've found that booth rental salons tend to suffer on service since the stylist feels like working for themselves makes this behavior OK. I find that salons who have owners present and don't rent their space are more professional. I would not be happy in that position.

[pooh8402]

20% always. and I tip an even $5 for a bang trim since she's usually squeezing me in between appointments, even though the bang trim is $5 alone (100% tip on that). fortunately, she only charges me $40 for shampoo, cut and blowdry/flatiron, so it comes out to $48.

[ssmjlm]

I tip 20%, no matter the service. Ok, doing the math, sometimes it's a bit more when I do highlights b/c I just round up.

My stylist is awesome though and even though I've lived here 5 years and I still can't get over the low prices compared to where I was.

[tugsgirl]

I always tip 20%

[futurepivko]

Jun 5, 2012 8:07:28 GMT -5 @mavjen said:

Oh future, tabitha from makeover salon would have ripped your hairstylist a new asshole for leaving you in the chair to go text, etc. very unprofessional. I would understand if she had an assistant attend to you while she stepped away, but not more than once. But if you were alone in the chair, no bueno.

Oh yeah, I'm alone in the chair hair wet hanging down my face as she's making Sat night plans...uhh...

And I love Tabitha, she's amazing.

ETA: the girl I go to IS the owner!

[FormerCityGirl]

Jun 5, 2012 8:31:04 GMT -5 @futurepivko said:

Jun 5, 2012 8:07:28 GMT -5 @mavjen said:

Oh future, tabitha from makeover salon would have ripped your hairstylist a new asshole for leaving you in the chair to go text, etc. very unprofessional. I would understand if she had an assistant attend to you while she stepped away, but not more than once. But if you were alone in the chair, no bueno.

Oh yeah, I'm alone in the chair hair wet hanging down my face as she's making Sat night plans...uhh...

And I love Tabitha, she's amazing.

ETA: the girl I go to IS the owner!

If you don't 100% love her and her work, I would switch. I'm a Tabitha fan too and have found that owners who let that shit happen out in the open are even lazier in the areas you can't see. There's no excuse for an owner to blow off a client. I go to an extremely talented level 1 and the owner goes chair to chair helping her stylists and chatting with customers. I can't imagine what the break room or color rooms look like in a place where the owner behaves like that. I would have been irate. If my stylists needs to grab more color or tell a client she's behind, she has to find another stylist to attend to me during that time. My owner has even passed foils to my stylist and done some during long processes.

[bethaboo]

My haircuts are $45 and I leave $55.

[SallyJ]

I only tip 10%, but that's because my stylist is the owner.

[futurepivko]

Jun 5, 2012 9:01:03 GMT -5 SallyJ said:

I only tip 10%, but that's because my stylist is the owner.

This is where the topic gets interesting...does the salon owner get less?

[boston340]

I tip 28% but that's because the gal I go to doesn't charge much and she does a FANTASTIC job. I live in a LCOL area + there are a ton of salons in our small town so there is quite a bit of competition.

[beahbia12]

I always tip 20%, or more if I LOVE my hair.

[honeydew1894]

My cut , color, and blow out costs $75 so I tip $20. The girl is my friend, and she gives me a low rate. Plus, she does my eye brow waxing on the house.

[SallyJ]

Jun 5, 2012 9:48:37 GMT -5 @futurepivko said:

Jun 5, 2012 9:01:03 GMT -5 SallyJ said:

I only tip 10%, but that's because my stylist is the owner.

This is where the topic gets interesting...does the salon owner get less?

I've always heard that if it's the business owner you don't have to tip at all because they make all the profit in the first place. I tip because she hasn't raised her prices on me in the 14 years I've been going to her and she's that great. I make it a rule across the board when dealing with tipping - if you are the owner I either don't tip or tip significantly less.

As for her business model - she has her own clients that pay her money for services. This covers the supplies for those clients and the rest is profit for her (or paying her for her time). She rents a building and has 3 other stylists that work there. They pay her rent, which covers rent/utilities/insurance for her + some extra profit. Their clients pay them directly which they use to pay for their supplies + rent, so tips are more important for them.

[quorra]

My haircut and color is always $60 and I tip her $30-40 because she is damn hilarious, gives me wine to drink, and will fit me in even if she is beyond overbooked. She even came in on a closed day and opened up the salon just for me once because I was just having an all around bad day and she wanted to make me feel good.

She's really that awesome.