You tip the waiter or waitress who brings you your dinner at the restaurant so why would you think that you do not tip your hairdresser or barber is the question that is searched for most often. You pay the person who only carries a plate of food from the kitchen to the table at your restaurant but do not feel the person who sticks their hands inside of your hair is worthy of a good tip?

The one thing that most people do not understand is that if you have a hairdresser or a barber who does a poor job on the haircut or who did not do exactly as you had asked them to do, they still should get a tip. They just should not get that much of a tip. The tip for the hair dresser and barber is much like that of your waiter or waitress.

If the barber or hairdresser does an outstanding job and you love the look once they are done, then you might want to tip her or him around twenty percent. If they did exactly as you asked, styled it and washed it, maybe tip more like 25 percent. That is if they were good. If you waited a while to get into the chair because there was people inline, they are clearly worth it because those people are usually the regulars and have had their hair done in the past and know the wait is worth it.

If you got your haircut and were not pleased and do not feel that they deserve a tip, imagine that same feeling for your local restaurant and the fear that if you do not leave a tip the next time you come, they will do something to your food. That same fear should apply to the person cutting your hair. I would feel personally if I did not tip or left a bad tip, that the next time I come back, my hair will be messed up and Ill regret not leaving that tip in the first place.

Your hair is something that is going to take a while to grow out and if there is a mess up, you know how hard it can be to face everyone. At least once in everyone’s life, they have had their hair messed up whether or not they did it on purpose. So imagine having to do that simply because you did not tip. The standard going rate for someone who did a bad job on a haircut is 15 percent.

It’s unfortunate that men in the world today do not get the same benefits of the barber shop that their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers once had. The benefit of using a regular barber over the salon has been a tradition that is long gone. There are still some barbers left out there but most men end up in the local salon getting their hair cut and style.

One of the downsides to going to the local salon over the barber shop is that you will most likely end up with a different stylist each time. In most salons the stylists are rotated and therefore you might get comfortable with the stylist and find that the next time you come back, she or he has been transferred to another salon.

When you go to a barber shop, the barber has been doing hair for quite a while and therefore he knows what it means to take just a little off the top. Most stylists in the salon all have their own way or their own thoughts on what a little means. They might ask you if you mean this or mean that but generally go with their own thoughts on how much to take off. A barber however looks and sees you and knows just how much you want to lose.

A barber is going to learn from his mistakes in the past and therefore knows how to avoid those same mistakes. He knows how hard it is to gather customers because most go to the salons. He therefore want’s to avoid losing more clients and therefore will take slightly longer to make sure the cut is perfect and is what you want. A stylist is generally in a hurry and therefore will snip quickly and if a mistake is made, oh well, goes on to finish the cut allowing the mistake to decide how the rest of the cut should go.

If you are someone who is always interested in the same cut, then you know how important it is to maintain that same image. If this is important to you, then you want to be able to use the same person for all of your haircutting needs. A barber shop that has been open for year’s know how that is and will do everything in their power to make sure that they are able to keep you coming back to them for years and years.