(it was supposed to say one pedicure per year)

Manicures/pedicures: maybe 1 pedicure/week at $25?

Waxing/threading/lasers/hair removal: $10/month in razors and sensitive skin shave gel. $20 every 3 months for this do-it-yourself bikini wax kit. $10 every 6 months for special cream that reduces ingrown hairs.

Cosmetics and Hair products: $6 every 3 months for this gel I use to get rid of frizz, $20 every 6 months for hair spray. $10 every 3 months for mascara. Maybe $100/year on make up. And lets face it, even though shampoo/conditioner are hygiene products, I use the fancy stuff that makes it shiner. So I could be saving an additional $10 every 2 months if I just got the regular stuff.

Appliances that you regularly buy: $20 tweezers every year or so. I have a $200 hair straightener but I bought it 5 years ago.

Hair cuts/colour/treatments: $80/haircut x 6 = $480 (oh my, off to a rough start!) $75/ partial highlights x 3 (I rock the roots)= $225
and $50/year for the salon membership equals $755 just on hair alone. Yikes.

Manicures/Pedicures: I bite my nails and will be getting a pedi for my trip to Trinidad in May. I don’t normally get them though, so let’s say 2x/year $50 a piece = $100

Waxing/threading/lasers/hair removal: I do eyebrow waxing but I let it go for a really long time, so $30 x 4 = $120/year

Cosmetics and Hair products (include hair toys): I practically live at my s.o.’s place, so that means I have two of everything. Recently bought new hairdryer and chi iron, and those were $170 together (friend with an in at a supplier! score!)Plus my huge round brush – $8

Spa treatments (facials, etc.): Don’t really do these, so $0
Appliances that you regularly buy (eyelash curler pads to Ped Eggs to fancy irons and dryers and such): included those in hair toys since I don’t regularly buy irons/dryers (my mom got me an iron for my highschool grad and it’s still going strong after 5 years and tons of use), so for the rest of that category I’d have to estimate $100?

Any other special potions/preparations/pills you take/use/buy with the express idea that they will “enhance your natural beauty.”: probably $50

Makeup: Over the course of a whole year, with replacing eye stuff and going through foundation (MAC studio tech) and mascara like it’s going out of style plus the occasional shopping spree: $350

For a grand total of (I’m going to die when I add it all up) $1733 Canadian Dollars (or $1408.98 USD according to xe.com converter).

Everyone who was thought they were high maintenance for spending $600 can feel better now! I hang my head in shame, because this is most likely an underestimate since I forget a lot of stuff!

Spa treatments (facials, etc.) -
Body Scrub/Massage – 1 x $155 = $155

Appliances that you regularly buy (eyelash curler pads to Ped Eggs to fancy irons and dryers and such) – No purchases in 2008

Any other special potions/preparations/pills -
Sunscreen – $ 45 total
Facial Care (cleansers, etc) – $59/bimonthy x 6 = $354

Grand Total – $3683.07

Approximate number of Mortage payments this totals – 2.4

***All figures above include sales tax and tip, if necessary.

***** I am apparently incredibly high maintence and super beauty invested. Even though I can barely manage to shower most days. Crap.

******* I have such detailed numbers because my husband is a budgeting nerd. i.e. – We spend what we want on what we want, but he just feels the need to account for every penny.

That totals $233 a year. I don’t wear makeup, and I’ve given up all face treatments besides my scrub since they do nothing, and I also gave up dying my hair quite a while ago. So I’m down to bathing, a good face scrub, haircuts and shaving. I don’t condition my hair or wear perfume. This is all part of a project to reduce my body maintenance to things I deem necessary or that I would be uncomfortable without, and adding it up, I’m pretty pleased. Woo hoo!

Oh, and I am converting from pounds, so some of the guesses might be inexact. Sorry.

Overall: $390

$52 a year…my new total is $670

annual beauty cost – about $608 dollars a year

Makeup: Never use it. Convinced it’ll poison me.

Shampoo/Conditioner: I keep my hair very short, so it lasts me a while. Though I tend to try to buy paraben-free stuff, so that gets a little costly… Would say around $8 every two months, so $42-50 yearly.
I try to trim my hair myself as often as possible, and get it cut at the Hair Cuttery probably three times a year. $51 including tip.

Shaving needs: Shaving cream probably costs me about $10 a year. I have a safety razor, inherited from my mom, and the blades for it are about $6 for 10. 10 last me six months, so $22 a year.

Face care/lotion: I tend to break out easily, so I spend a little money here. $4 every month for face scrubbies, $10 bi-annually for lotion. $44.

And that’s it…
Comes to $191, and I’m pretty light on the cosmetics. I could probably drop the razors and not have it affect my ability to get/maintain a job, but sadly I fear ridicule when wearing shorts or going to the pool too much.