How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

A new friend from work has offered to do my hair for free - cut and highlights. (She did go to school for cosmetology.) I have offered to pay, but she refuses to take any money. What would be an appropriate tip?

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

She sounds like a sweetheart.

Yep... AT LEAST $20, or a gift card, dinner out or something special that she probably wouldn't think of buying for herself.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

$5?

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

Kinda depends on where you live - $20 sounds good to me.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

What would 20% of a normal cut and highlight cost you? Or you can do something really nice for her-like take her to dinner at a really nice restaurant.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

She might not even take one if she is refusing to let you pay for at least the cost of the hair dye. Try taking her out for lunch or giving her a ten dollar gift card to Subway or somewhere she likes to eat, if she won't take the money. I say a fifteen dollar tip wouldn't be to much, if you work in the hair field then you know how much it costs to get your hair cut and colored.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

Whatever you would normally tip someone to do this. I ususally give about 10% of the total cost to my hairdresser. On average a cut and highlights are usually between $60 and $120 depending on the length and thickness of the hair. Since she is not charging you I would be inclined to tip a little more.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

15% to 20% of what you would have otherwise paid.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

~Wait and see what it looks like!!! LOL

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

I'd say 25 bucks probably, maybe more, depends on how it turns out. It sounds like she's very nice.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

I believe that when a service like that is provided for free to you, the common courtesy is to tip atleast half of the service.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

If she wont take any payment then she wont take a tip either, so maybe you should take her to lunch one day, and not to a fast food place either.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

At least $10-$15.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

Ten Bucks. and lunch

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

I say $5 if she'll even take that. As long as you offered to pay her and she said no, I wouldn't feel obligated to give her anything.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

take her out and pay for it and give her like $5-$10 tip..=]

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

I would say, offer to pay for the chemicals used for the highlights, then take her to lunch or dinner.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

i am a hair dresser and do my friends hair for free too. They usually give me around fourty dollars how ever that just covers the cost of product and time spent doing it a more realistic tip would be about about sixty to eighty dollars if she refuses just place it on the table before you leave, remember in a salon it would be over a hundred dollars.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

I'd give her $20 - or a gift card for a restaurant or something similar.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

$20, that's how much you would generally tip at the salon.

Or give her a gift certificate for a resturant.

How much should I tip for my free hair cut and highlights?

What would you tip the person you pay to do this? That would be how you figure your tip.