I tip the person that does my hair around 15-20% no gifts.

Nothing extra for Christmas. I have two hairdressers - one who colors, one who cuts. They're both very expensive in my opinion and I see them very regularly so as far as I'm concerned I've already blown my hairdresser budget long before Christmas.

My neighbor is a hairdresser. She was complaining that people give her gifts because THEY like to shop....and think she would say for instance............look cute in that little designer skirt(she only wears jeans and a white T-shirt)......she says she only wants money....then she can buy what she wants. She talks about how hard it is to return things without a receipt....

I usually give cash, but this year I have a new hairdresser. She is a wonderful girl, who is a single mother, and she is strapped for cash. I may give her cash + movie tickets for her and her boys.

Mine likes Starbucks - says she needs a caffeine boost in the afternoons so I give her a gift certificate and add some of their VIA, which she keeps in her cabinet at work.

I just give a double tip at Christmas~~

I buy her a nice gift and also for the other 2 hairdressers in the salon, they bring magazines for me to read and one always brings me a cup of coffee.

I give a double tip.

Absolutely nothing. She's lucky to get a tip when she does my hair. Why would I buy her a Christmas gift? I didn't give birth to her. She's not dating one of my boys. She has her own family to buy her gifts.

I never tipped the owner of the salon, due in part to the fact that he charged more than anyone else in the salon. As to a Christmas gift, I usually give her some sort of gift card.

They don't want a gift (and neither do your kids' teachers!).

If you wish to tip, give them cash - but only if they've been doing your hair for years, and you are really pleased with them.

Nothing, she gets a tip every time she does my hair. I think that's plenty. It's not like she's a relative.

I just met my new hair stylist......I finally found someone in my community who knows how to cut my hair.
I took him some quilting fabric for his grandmother......he was really happy.
Usually I don't give Christmas gifts to my hairdresser....mainly because I haven't gone to one on a regular basis.

Nothing - not anymore anyway. I've been going to the same hairdresser for 15 years and usually gave her a gift card to places where I knew she frequented. However one year she was complaining about another client who gave her a gift and said that she would prefer cash.

At the same time she opened her own shop and then made a point of announcing there was no reason that the owner shouldn't be tipped too. So that was it for me - I still go to her and give her a 20% tip. But that's it.

I avoid them at Christmas. LOL

Seriously, I never stick with one long enough to establish that kind of relationship. I tip 20% or so, and that's it.

LOL, I try to avoid them too. I seriously don't understand the need to give them a Christmas gift. I go WAY out of my way for patients in the office and I certainly don't expect a gift. I tip every 4 weeks; that's enough of a gift. I sound like a scrouge, don't I??

I never give a gift other than my usual tip.

I go to a place with several hairdressers. I don't tip them at Christmas, but I'm a big tipper during the year. They have one manicurist I see every week, and I give her a card with $20 around now. I don't tip anyome else. I figure the mailman gets paid by his employer, he doesn't need an incentive from me. I tip in restaurants, but not at fast-food places. I bring cookies to my former place of employment and the hospital where I get dialysis.

We live in a small rural area and everyboby knows everybody.. My hairdresser is a girl I have known since she was born. She went to school with our kids. Sweet gal. Last year I bought her a Lands End bag ( at a killer price) and filled it with hot chocolate mix and a spiced tea mix. Also included spoons, cups and marshmellows. She loved offering it to all her ladies. This year I bought her the big coffee pot so she could keep it going. She has told me so many times how much she has loved it.. I have made a new batch of hot chocolate and spiced tea to take next week. May even bake a few cookies..

Every now and then I have a grandaughter with me and she always puts them up in the seat and trims their hair for free. She makes it a big deal for them.. They love it...

Well, I was glad to hear all the responses. The double tip sounds good. I might do that, but will for sure bring in a nicely wrapped plate of Christmas cookies. better start baking now!

I always give her a bottle of Bailey's or something like that. I love my hairdresser!

Hi Casey,

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I just gave cash and a cute card to both my hairdresser (funny name, isn't it?) and my dogs' hairdresser. It was about double my usual tip. I think cash is much more appreciated than food or stuff. Just my opinion.