I can't even gauge how much I spend a month. It depends on whether I get my hair done. But probably about $10-50/month. If I get my hair done then, about $100-200. I usually can't even afford to get my hair done. I wish I could spend a little more, but not $3500/month.

I would only want to trade places with these women so I could have their cash. I would not like to spend that much time primping and trying to look beautiful, what a waste of time. After working and primping, how do they have time to enjoy the fruits of their labor?

I would say I spend $1,000 every 2 months

luckily i work in a spa... and my mom's and esthetician. So i get my massages and facials for free or trade. and i get my hair done at cost.
one massage = 120
facial = 150
hair cut with color= 200

so i save 470 a month/every few months by being a massage therapist part time

heehee

I do spend about 100 on mani pedi though every month... its the only time i sit still.

I would say I spend about $400 a month with hair care, makeup, nails, face & body. I go to the nearest drug store to get my hair care, makeup, face & body products because it's a lot more affordable. I do splurge occasionally and buy some of my products at Sephora or dept stores. Of course if I had that kind of money to spend $3500 a month hell yeah I would. I would love to pamper myself like that.

I maybe spend $100 a month. I am a poor college student. Luckily, my family friend is my hair stylist so that saves me alot of money. Other than that I try to make everything last a long time. I definitely go for a pedicure ever 2-2.5 weeks.

bookgirl you took the words out of my mouth!!

i would say $200-300 a month, if i color my hair (which i do myself) and i need to buy all new products. i buy my makeup at walmart or heb, never in the mall and we don't have any specialty makeup stores, otherwise i probably would. BUT i did just get married to a solider in the army, so now i can go to the PX on post and buy stuff, and they have tons of name brands in clothes, perfume, and makeup for less, so we'll see but i do spend alot on clothes and we don't even have any high end stores here

my makeup and hair stuff lasts a while. i'd say i spend $50 every 3 months. i dont get regular manicures or pedicures - i try to do my own. and just get eyebrowns done once a month for $7.

With acupuncture and personal training sessions, I spend about $1300 month now. The personal training sessions end mid-July though.. So then it will be about $700 a month.

I just can't imagine spending that much. I guess if I was in a higher tax bracket maybe it wouldn't seem so crazy, but I think I could find a better way to spend the money than on beauty treatments. And all that time and effort?!?! I guess I should be glad that I am not in their "circle" 'cause I would be the drab/wrinkly one for sure! No way would I do all the stuff those women do.

I probably spend about $50 the months I don't get my hair done and $100 the months I do. I just bought a house so I really budget myself. I used to spend waaaay too much at drugstores and Sephora. I was pretty much a product junkie and I'd buy anything new, just to see if it lived up to its' claims. Now I stick to Benefit, Mac and Bare Essentials and they suit me just fine!

Let's see, between makeup, hair products, cheap manicures, tanning lotion, I probably only spend about $75 a month. Every few months I color my hair, but I can't afford to have it done in the salon anymore so I do that myself. The cut costs $70, but I have long hair, don't get it cut more than every five or six months.

I only WISH I had the kind of income that would afford me to spend $3,500 a month!

ditto heatherann

Maybe $20/month. I am very low maintenance. I get my hair cut about twice a year. Manicures consist of nail clippers with the occasional nail polish in the summer time. I use Neutrogena on my face and fructis on my hair. I would love to be able to afford brands like Fresh and Bliss, but even then I would still stick to the basics.

Maybe $100 a month, sometimes more- sometimes less

Lets see...I'd say about $5. I cut my own hair, do my own manicure/pedicure, don't get special spa treatments. My only indulgences are french shampoo (2x year) and skinceuticals sunscreen. Do those even count? It's not that I can't afford it. I just hate high maintenance. I like my own natural hair, and facials only mess up my skin.

I love beauty products but I couldn't imagine spending that much money.I spend $100 a month buying beauty products, getting a manicure and pedicure and getting my eyebrows waxed.

Probably around $25-30/month, most of which goes to sunscreen in the summer. I'm pretty low maintainence.

my hair is $100 - $150 every 8 weeks
I do not get manicures, pedicures or waxing at salons anymore because i get so grossed out how unhygienic they could be. they really need to regulate that stuff. i know i am neurotic.
so the rest of my expenses would be for home stuff; maybe an additional $20 a month. so less than $100 a month total.

I live in LA and i do not feel the need to keep up with botox, facials, massages, tanning, waxing, mani & pedis, or any other cosmetic treatments.

I'd love to have enough money to even consider spending that much money.
There are only three things on a regular basis: I get my hair done and bikini waxed every 6 weeks or so ($60), I buy a new mascara (or two) every 3 months. I have some bobbi brown and philosophy face stuff that needs to be replenished a few times a year.

Manicures and pedicures all happen on the living room floor while watching old episodes of scrubs, and when DH is out for the afternoon I may give myself an impromptu home facial - egg whites are the best face mask ever!

I spend a lot of time on myself, but I'm low maintenance. I give myself mani/pedi's, trim my own hair (don't color it anymore...too damaged) and when I replace any makeup or skincare, I go for the drugstore deals. So maybe...$20 a month?

I spend $20 a month on Accutane and that's all I use for skincare.

I get my hair done every 2 months I guess.

I don't buy makeup.

I do my own nails and toes.

So, that's it

Virginia Woolf once said that with all the time women spent getting ready, they could learn greek. I know it's hypocritical of me to say that as I'm on bellasugar right now and heaven knows, I can take a long time to get ready, but that quote just popped into my head when I read this

See, the trick is to get a teach-yourself-Greek audiotape, which you can listen to while plucking your eyebrows.

whoa! $1k a week! would love to have that extra $3500! i spend around $500-$750 a year on myself. i occasionally indulge but not too often.

Very true bellasugar!!! I'm a multitasker!

I'm with the majority of you on here, I would love to have the money to spend like that... but don't know if I would really do that much. I do have the money to do more than I do, I just wouldn't feel right spending money on it, and I'm a HUGE sephora junkie. That is kind of vain.. 10 hours a week!!!! DANG!! maybe like 4 or 5 hours MAX week would be nice. Any more than that would be a pain to fit in!

I don't get mani's or pedi's (maybe once a year if I'm in a wedding or something) and I don't do them on myself. I'm a RN, so it wouldn't last long or help that much. I wash my hands about 50 times a day.

I do buy department brand/sephora makeup and hair products... but still with that, I only spend about $40 a month. And if I get my hair highlighted that month (every 3-4 months) it will add an extra $90. I only get my hair cut about 3 times a year, that is around 40 to get a cut.

I like hearing what you girls do! Its interesting to see what you all spend a month!

Some hair cuts and blow outs can cost $100 plus. I definitely do not have that kind of money. I usually only go all out on special occasions and that does not come anywhere near that amount of money.

It depends - maybe $100 every ten weeks?

I shop at Lush for my body/facial pre-makeup stuff, but that's only every three or four months. I haven't had to buy new makeup for a while - I bought some Clinique liquid foundation a while ago and it has lasted GREAT. I'm not one of those people who buys new eye makeup whenever MAC releases a new line, though, so that cuts costs, too.

However, I do indulge in pedicures (and sometimes manicures) twice a month with my mom for bonding - then we go out to eat and chat I think it's worth it.

i spend on average 20-25 a month, mostly on lotions and cleaners for both my body and face. they only makeup i wear is eyeliner and mascara which i only wear like 3 times a week, so thats a huge money saver. i read that pam anderson used to spend over 9000 dollars a day on makeup and hair!

i wish i had that much to spend on beauty

I get an eyebrows wax once at month at $12 a pop, a haircut every two months for $25, and I would say I spend on average $15 a month on random beauty products. So, around $40 a month.

humm...like $200 a month
the most!

hmm...$250 a month or so. And I'd spend more if I had it, though yikes -- $1000/mo seems borderline immoral.

Part of it is LA. For one, the prices are higher -- a blowout's at least $40 and when you get your hair cut, a lot of places charge you that to dry it. Highlights will be at least $200 most places. Secondly, the culture is just much more maintainance obsessed, because everyone feels ugly in LA with all the supermodels/actresses about. I didn't even notice how much more I was getting done until I listed all my expenses one day. Thank god I make more money in LA so it at least feels like it evens out to what I made before I moved here.

$1000/wk, I meant.

wow. there are so many other things i would rather do with $1000. i went to costa rica for 10 days and the whole trip was $3600! i'm sure if those ladies went there though they wouldn't be staying all budget like we did!
the one thing i wish i could afford is to get my hair done every 6 weeks. but i usually go 2-3 months and do a bottle color every other time then splurge on salon color the nest time. i love when my hairdresser dyes my hair, but $150 is a lot and i'd rather buy clothes or shoes.

*next*

I have to admit, I've never had a pedicure (I do them myself) or a manicure (again, do it myself). I feel so lame. I just don't really like other people touching me, and my natural reaction to anyone touching my feet is to want to kick them. I hate feet and dont' want anyone touching mine. It's surprising I even have a tattoo on one of them.

I am glad to see that I'm not as abnormal as I thought in my spending habits, I thought way more people would spend more than I do.

i don't even think i could manage to spend $1000 per week on beauty. clothes, that's a different story!

i probably spend $100 on average a month. i get my nails done once a month and then i buy whatever supplies need to be replaced. i use all mac makeup, but that lasts a loooong time, and i run out of the different products at different times. for my face i use proactive, so that's about $50 every 6 weeks or so. other beauty products (shampoo, etc) i grab from target. i only get my hair cut once a year, and then i only spend about $15, the rest of the time i self trim off the split ends.

my husband should read this!

It depends, sometimes $10-$50 per month and others more. Never anywhere near $1000 or $3500, though!

Hmmm... mani/pedi every 2 or 3 weeks, hair cut every 8 weeks, coloring (I do that myself) every 6 weeks, so somewhere around 50-100 dollars a month. I'd love to be able to spend more. But in the mean time, I'll just opt for trading lives with socalcutie. Girl, you got yourself a pretty great arrangement there!

I wear make-up, hair products, etc, but it would never even come close to $3500 a month!

I do my own manis and pedis, and I've never had a massage, even though I think it might be nice.

I do make money - but I just can't justify spending that much!

LOL bellasugar! That's why women are so great. Ingenius multitasking skills!