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Old 04-01-2015, 08:33
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I have a friend who is a hairdresser, that somehow manages to always have and maintain:

Hair extensions - Not the cheaper clip in ones but the better quality permenant ones. (Cost approx. £400 every 3 months)

Tinted and perfectly shaped everybrows, which I know for a fact she doesn't do herself.

Fake eyelashes EVERYDAY

Tanning - whether she's using sunbeds, spray tanning or self tanner, doing it regularly and all year round costs a fair bit of money

Gets entire body from the neck down waxed every 6 weeks.

Fake nails.

Then if you include all the make-up, skincare and hair products she buys and the fact she buys new and quite pricey clothes/shoes/handbags basically every week, I'm left wondering how the hell she can afford it, when I know she only earns something like £7 an hour.

This isn't just her mind, it's most girls/young women I know these days and to spend all of that and to do all of those things has basically become the norm.

1) I don't understand how so many young people are even affording all of this constantly.

2) How come sooo much is expected of young girls and women these days? I'm lucky to have the boyfriend I have but the comments I have seen and heard from many other guys around my age just amazes me.
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Old 04-01-2015, 09:38
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Maybe she doesn't have much in the way of bills so is able to afford it. If she's a hairdresser she will probably be getting some sort of discount for the hair.

It doesn't seem like a great look to me, it all sounds incredibly fake!
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Old 04-01-2015, 11:10
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The thing that surprises..well shocks me to be honest...is how young some kids are starting this kind of routine. I remember in high school we did our eyebrows, but we did them ourselves, but my friends 12 year old daughter and her friends get them threaded. My other friend takes her 15 year old to the salon to do them, and her 23 year old daughter has been getting her's done since the age of 14. Okay, granted, some of the home done eyebrows looked bad; but in general they looked fine. Maybe if it stopped there, but getting manicures regularly rather than just for special occasions is another thing. We used to talk about shaving our legs, and if anyone waxed it was a home kit, but it was very very rare. Only the well off girl in our year did that, but now days it seems like everyone does it from earlyish teens.

To be honest I'm not sure how people work it into their budget. I have a 23 year old friend who wants to get a second job because she cannot afford to save doing all this stuff on her wage, and she doesn't pay any bills at home, doesn't go out much and doesn't have a car! She's on about 20 grand a year. She can't give it up though, it's to engrained because she's been doing it so long.
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Old 04-01-2015, 13:34
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The thing that surprises..well shocks me to be honest...is how young some kids are starting this kind of routine. I remember in high school we did our eyebrows, but we did them ourselves, but my friends 12 year old daughter and her friends get them threaded. My other friend takes her 15 year old to the salon to do them, and her 23 year old daughter has been getting her's done since the age of 14. Okay, granted, some of the home done eyebrows looked bad; but in general they looked fine. Maybe if it stopped there, but getting manicures regularly rather than just for special occasions is another thing. We used to talk about shaving our legs, and if anyone waxed it was a home kit, but it was very very rare. Only the well off girl in our year did that, but now days it seems like everyone does it from earlyish teens.
To be honest, if I had a kid who was a girl, I would seriously consider taking her to get her eyebrows done properly when she was old enough, at least once to get the shape right. I overplucked my eyebrows in completedly the wrong way when I was at school, as did loads of my friends, and although they are OK now, it has affected their shape.
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Old 04-01-2015, 13:54
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Does she look good with it? Mental image of a hard-faced orange lady.

Lot of pressure on women to look a certain way.
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Old 04-01-2015, 15:10
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A drag queen would spend less time on their look, she does not sound very attractive.

Their looks are probably a result of the credit card. All that fake hair will need to be paid for at some point. Along with the Botox that will no doubt start soon.
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Old 04-01-2015, 15:15
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Well in the hairdressers I go to, not that I go often their is a beauty part to it so I imagine staff discount or qualified friends doing nails and tans etc it could be maintained a fair bit cheaper.

Failing that you can only speculate on someone's financial situation, obviously if she lives at home and pays minimal rent or lives with a partner who pays a majority of bills all these things would have an impact. When I was younger and lived at home I thought nothing of going to spend a couple hundred quid on clothes, now I scrunch my face to part with a tenner for anything for myself.

I know a girl who got thousand and thousands in debt keeping up her nails, hair, make up, tanning and clothes etc her parents downsized and sold their family home to pay it off
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Old 04-01-2015, 17:40
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It's easily do-able. If she works in a hairdressers then she's obviously not going to be paying full price for the extensions. Things like getting your eye brows done and your nails don't really cost that much at all...cheap in fact. Same with fake eye lashes. The cost of tanning would soon mount up if she was using sunbeds and spray tans, but if she's using self tanner and doing it herself then a bottle might last her say 5 or 6 weeks if she's doing it regularly. It's easily do-able. Most of her money probably goes on the clothes and make up.
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Old 04-01-2015, 17:44
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Why would anyone want to look like "Madge" from "Benidorm"?
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Old 05-01-2015, 09:41
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Does she look good with it? Mental image of a hard-faced orange lady.

Lot of pressure on women to look a certain way.
She sounds like Effie Trinket in The Hunger games
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Old 09-01-2015, 21:25
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Sounds like she's in TOWIE tbh.

I'll never understand the cutting your hair short then using extensions trend. Why not just have naturally long hair?
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Old 10-01-2015, 18:19
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I've had my hair done a few times at MK college. I've always been pleased with the results as the trainees are supervised. Loads of hair and beauty treatments are available. It is time consuming though.
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Old 18-01-2015, 10:40
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I don't understand why girls feel the need for all this fake-ness which is now considered a benchmark for beauty. It puts pressure on girls from an even earlier age now to look a certain way to fit in. I try to keep how I look minimalistic and natural I get my hair trimmed every 6-8 weeks, I pluck my own eyebrows once a week. Anything like hair removing do myself and I've only had spray tan done for the odd special occasions.

Why people get themselves in debt etc to fund looking a certain way i just don't get.
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Old 18-01-2015, 18:18
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OP, please excuse my ignorance and bluntness, but your post confuses and fascinates me in equal measures.

Surely, if you want to know the answer to your question, you should just ask your friend/s ?
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Old 19-01-2015, 00:43
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Eyebrows and eyelashes cost **** all to maintain £5 every six weeks for eyebrows threading, out £2 a month for eyelashes. I don't do the rest of the stuff but I'm sure there's a way to do it to any budget. Yes, you could do it and spend a lot of money, but there are usually budget ways of doing things too. For instance, I'm sure there are people who pay more than the £5 I pay to get their eyebrows done; there was a gold flecked mask shown on a TV show the other day, but you could also moisturise with supermarket homebrand lotion.
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Old 29-01-2015, 23:40
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Well its change days from my teenage days in the 60s.... Panstick mascara, eyeliner and hairspray, we did our own eyebrows, shaved our legs and underarms at the weekend to go to the dancing and that was about it.... cheap and cheerful with less hangups and expense.
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Old 31-01-2015, 12:34
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Sounds like she's in TOWIE tbh.

I'll never understand the cutting your hair short then using extensions trend. Why not just have naturally long hair?
You know how you never cut your eyelashes but they grow to a certain length, stay like that, then fall out, in a cycle? Well, it's the same for head hair. The length to which your hair will grow is different for everyone. Some of us just can't grow long hair.

That's just one reason why people might want extensions, there are others.
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