How do you handle tipping when you're at the hair salon?

[Charlie&Rose]

I always pay cash. Stylist walks me to the register, and I hand her the tip, in cash. Seems everywhere you go nowadays you have to pay extra to use a charge card.

[Sand&Salt]

I only go to get my hair straightened once a year, by an owner-operator place. That's about $300, so I just put it on the credit card and add about $50 since it takes several hours. Brazilian Blow-out type of thing.

For color, I buy $10 box of dye and DH does it. He'd probably take a tip but I don't offer it.

When we couldn't tell the difference between the $125 salon color and DH in the living room, we chose the latter. He gets his cut at the mall for $10 and gives the stylist a couple bucks tip----all cash. CC companies charge the small guy 10% here.

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by BOS2IAD

I always tip my stylist in cash. She gets a 20% tip. Sometimes she walks me to the receptionist where I pay for the cut. If she walks me there, I hand her the tip. For the person who shampoos my hair, I leave her $6 and put it in an envelope where I write her name on it and it gets put into a locked box with a slot for the envelopes.

I put the hair cut on a credit card. Then the receptionist will make my next appointment and give me a card with the info.

All the ladies who pay $20 for a cut---lucky you With my hair, I end up paying more as there aren't many stylists who can give me a decent cut due to my having thick, coarse, wavy, frizzy hair

I just realized that my post may come across as a $20 haircut. The cut itself is, in my eyes, way too much for the very little effort it takes them to do it. Long, straight hair, and I ask them to cut 3" off to get rid of split ends. They do a little bit on the bangs (not! straight across bangs). The $20 is their tip for approximately 20 minutes of work, and that's with the shampoo/conditioner. But, like I said, every once in awhile, I want to feel pampered.

[puginabug]

Use my debit card and add the tip at checkout. I tip a bit over 20%. My hairdresser rents her chair I believe.

[JBtwinz]

I just get a simple haircut every few months and use the local Great Clips. They haven’t had any coupons in quite awhile so the cut no shampoo is $19.00. It never takes more than 15 minutes and I generally leave a $3.00 tip, although when prompted at the pay kiosk it lists $5, $10, $15 and other for tip. I choose other and hit $3.