Nurses: Is your hairstyle a luxury or a necessity?

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  1. Is your hairstyle a luxury or a necessity? Please discuss your rationale.

    • 26
      Luxury
    • 35
      Necessity
    • 34
      Both
    • 37
      Neither
    • 2
      Other

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Do you consider your hairstyle to be an important part of your uniform or just a luxury?

Even more importantly, is it tax deductible? ;)

Share! Between coloring, cutting, styling, and maintaining, about how much do spend on your hair annually?

Specializes in DOU.

I color my own hair (it went prematurely went from dark brown to white, and as fast as it grows, I have to color about every two weeks because I am vain and hate looking like a skunk with a white stripe at the part). $100

I only cut it two or three times a year $100

I buy products to tame the curls and keep it from becoming too dry - probably $250 per year.

It never occurred to me to claim it on my taxes - there is no way in **** I am going out of the house with my hair "natural", whether or not I ever work another day in my life, so it would seem like cheating.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

Since I'm currently a tight-wad, I haven't had a hair cut in six months. And amazingly, it looks fine. I stopped coloring my hair when I became a student, too.

To answer AngieO's question about annual cost, I'd say I spend about $60 per year at the salon, since I've been getting biannual cuts.

When I graduate, I don't know if I'll go back to the highlight/regular cut thing I was hooked on before?

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I probably spend around $750 a year but most of that is on highlights. I wear it kind of layerd shoulder length and don't get it cut as often as is should. I'm voting neither because at work its all pulled back, bare bones for sure.

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I have had my hair cut twice in five years. I've never found a good stylists. I'm a natural blonde and I like my hair long. Stylists always screw it up. For some reason they have no idea how to handle natural blonde hair. They are also always trying to give me mullets. Just because I'm blonde doesn't mean I want to look like a member of an 80s hair band.

eta. Oh yeah, I use Dove volumizing condition. I don't use shampoo, it's too harsh. I use conditioner like shampoo and it works great.

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Specializes in NICU.

Definitely a necessity. I probably spend around $350 a year on highlights and the occasional cut. My hair is long and doesn't require a lot of fancy styling, but I do enjoy the highlights :D.

I'm not sure what professions would be allowed a tax deduction for hair, though I can come up with a few ;)...

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Mine's both a luxury and a necessity. I have this long, thick, naturally wavy/curly hair that is growing in silver now, and I have to relax it every 2-3 months to get rid of all the frizz and make it manageable. I do it myself at home, I buy these kits that are actually made for women of color and they work wonderfully to relax the curl rather than straighten it. Then of course I buy the expensive shampoos and conditioners to keep it shiney and very, very soft.......grey hair tends to be wiry, you know, and I stopped coloring it about a year ago. Thought it was time to 'go natural'. Now I almost wish I hadn't, because the top layer is REALLY grey---especially when you look at it in the sunlight!---but it seems silly to go back to coloring now.

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

I get a haircut once a month, pay $40. I have minimal gray hair (I prefer to call them my "sparklies"), it's basic brown hair w/a little bit of curl.

I've been going to the same hair dude since 1970, I'm going to hate it when I have to train a new person.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

$1 fop 3 ponytail clips. $2 for Pantene gel and $16 for a cut a couple of times a year. I can't believe it's tax deductible though unless we are being filmed or modeling.

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Specializes in Staff nurse.

I've gone perm and color-free for about 3.5 years now, and my mil thinks I lighten my hair in streaks...no, it's nature's "silver highlights"!!

I get my hair trimmed maybe every 4-5 months, and I trim the bangs myself in between. I wear it into a bun or ponytail at work to keep cool and keep it out of my face. I can't wear short hair, my face is too chubby, forehead too high, hair thinning and glasses. So it is now a few inches below shoulder.

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Hair down to my waist (yes I am over 50) was red and still am (with grey well hidden) color every 3 months, trim at that time. cost? $200.

could I pay more? yes...but use a local shop that knows me well.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Having my hair and makeup look nice makes me feel prettier in my big not stylish scrubs. LUXURY

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

What hairstyle?

I keep mine long enough for restraints (ponytail or bun). Own barettes as old as 50 years. (I beaded it myself at bible camp as a young teen.)

Use dandruff shampoo with conditioner. Sometimes use the loving color that washes out in a few weeks but am usually grey.

Sister trims split ends for me about twice a yeat. It's been the same "style" since I was 14.

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