Do you tip for Waxing?

Yes; there has to be some reward for having to do that to women all day long.

A typical Brazilian/Hollywood will cost €60/65, so usually I tip €5/10 depending on the change I have.

I'm not necessarily so inclined to tip for other treatments unless I think they have done a very good job, but I just think for doing that area they deserve it!!

I confess to never tipping at the hairdressers, unless its a blowdry or an upstyle.

€200 for a cut and colour is more than enough to pay i think, and my stylist is the owner anyway so I wouldn't fell right about tipping him for some reason!!

As a general rule I rarely tip unless the service that I'm getting is exeptionally good. I think that tipping started out as a fashionable thing that people started to do here having seen it being done in the States and other countries - it gave people an excuse to flash some cash and come accross as generous, but the difference is that a lot of service workers over there just get a minimum wage and depend on tipping as their main source of income. Whereas here, people generally get a higher basic wage and service charge is already included in restaurants etc.

In fact I think it's a great system in America as it means that people serving you will make an effort to be nice and helpful, which is good for the company and the customer and their effort will be then rewarded by a nice tip - everyone's a winner!

It would make a nice change from the sour faced, grumpy and often rude sales assistants etc that we see here. I'm so sick of being served by people who have never heard of the words 'please' or 'thank you' in this country!

But Irish people have this ingrained thing in them about not appearing tight with money (why is that?) and so they will happily add on money to a bill which is already covering the wages of the person providing the service!

Having said that, I would tip a bit in restaurants if the waiting staff are nice. But to someone waxing, I'm sorry but as someone said earlier - why are they doing the job if it's so hard. Beauticians have to study and pass exams to to that job, I'm sure they know exactly what's involved before they spend all that time, energy and money on getting the qualification in the first place.

Being a bin man would be a much nastier job I reckon - when was the last time any of you tipped the guy that collects your rubbish???

I worked in a bar for a few years and rarely got tips (and yes I was always nice to the customers). A taxi driver once asked me for a tip (the cheek!) and I said to him "In all honesty do you tip the bar person when you order a drink" he replied "no". So why should I have tipped him just for doing his job when he would not have done the same to me?