Lulabelle's MFW Diary

nattypants · 15 January 2013 at 8:32PM

I hope your hairdresser is better by Thursday:) and how fab will that be having the bonus pay for your holiday....jealous much???;)

kirstypark · 15 January 2013 at 10:12PM

I strayed from my hairdresser once and it felt worse than cheating on the hubby would! oh the guilt! Luckily she took me back..

lulabelle1 · 16 January 2013 at 8:33AM

My hairdresser doesn't mind be cheating every now and then - I've done it a few times over the many years I've been using her. She works in a salon so it's not as if she's self employed and relying on me iykwim. Wish she was self employed, she might be a little bit cheaper! She knows it's just because I'm a tight wad and not that I'm not happy with her haircutting skills!!

lulabelle1 · 16 January 2013 at 8:36AM

nattypants wrote: »

I hope your hairdresser is better by Thursday:) and how fab will that be having the bonus pay for your holiday....jealous much???;)

I vowed when i was setting my OP target for 2013 that my monthly money would be used for day to day living and overpayments to the mortgage and that a holiday would only happen if a bonus came in to pay for it. So, if there's no bonus then the holiday wont happen and it will just be day trips instead.

I'd actually quite like to chuck any bonus at the mortgage but DH and the children might have something to say about that!

lulabelle1 · 16 January 2013 at 8:38AM

It looks stunning outside my office window this morning - the sky is totally white and all of the trees are covered in a really thick frost, it's like something from a Christmas card. Beautiful.....

Iona_Penny · 17 January 2013 at 8:22AM

Hi lulabelle
I have finally read the whole of your thread and enjoyed it! I have been tempted out to post after reading about 'hairgate'. I too use an expensive hairdressers but have dabbled in cheaper places; finally I realised that as I work full time I owed it to myself to get the cut/treatment I was happy with, so budget for a cut every 6 weeks in the place I like. (short hair so can't go much longer)
Actually I am there later today

the good thing is that to encourage people to visit in January (guess people strapped for cash post Xmas) they send a text giving 25% off in this month! You also get 20% in your birthday month,(I always get hightlights done with this) and they stamp a loyalty card with 10% every 8th visit.
Perhaps if your salon doesn't do this you should suggest it as a way to increase their business?
Anyway, happy haircut. Iona

Iona_Penny · 17 January 2013 at 8:34AM

Oh, and you would benefit too

lulabelle1 · 17 January 2013 at 8:36AM

Hi Iona, thanks for posting! I can't believe that you've read my whole thread, you must think I'm a nutter!

It sounds like your hairdresser knows a thing or two about marketing - makes great sense... I shall quiz them a little bit when I go in there later this morning about loyalty programmes etc. Perhaps i should charge them consultancy fees!

Happy haircut to you too!

lulabelle1 · 17 January 2013 at 8:38AM

Of all the days I could be going in to London - it is absolutely freezing.....

There is no way that I'm even going to think about dressing smartly today - I need to go and raid the jumper drawer and wrap up as warm as possible.

Still looks beautiful outside my office window - I'm an old romantic really....