Ooh, I love this category. I have been wondering about these things.
I totally agree that a fit, healthy body is the best way to look beautiful. Last fall I quit my expensive, non-mustachian gym, which was costing me, gulp, $117 per month. I had actually hired a personal trainer earlier in the year to show me how to work out. I consider this a valid investment in my health, because I had some worrying health problems (early stage appendix cancer last year). So with the trainer's advice, I found a new way to work out (using weights and calisthenics), and dropped 40 lbs and changed my body chemistry. I'm much better set up now to avoid a recurrence, and also I love the way I look. I look 10 years younger, for one thing. So that's good.
After quitting Expensive Gym, I now just work out at my company gym, which is free, three mornings per week. The company gym is not open on weekends, so last Saturday I tried a ballet barre class. It was awesome, and my legs are still sore. So it must work! I'm trying to negotiate a deal, where I pay less than $10 per class, which I can use only on Saturday mornings. They offered me a 12-class package for $85, but I'd have to use the package up within six weeks. That won't work, since I can't really get there during the week. So I'm holding out. I don't want to let a large fitness bill creep back into my monthly budget.
I used to get eyebrow waxes and facials religiously, but the facials ended up breaking some capillaries around my nose. WTF. So I stopped. My skin looks fine. I am also tweezing my eyebrows myself. I get two to three pedicures over the summer, and go au naturel the rest of the year.
I wear foundation and mascara, which I buy at CVS. If I'm going out, I might break out the lip gloss, eyeliner and eyeshadow as well. Maybe not.
I get my hair colored and cut, for $165, every three months. I have heard that if you look good in gray, you can go gray. I look like @#$% in gray, so I would have a hard time giving this one up.
Until right now, I have spent a TON of money on clothes. Probably $2,000 to $3,000 per year. That is one area where I need to cut back. Now that I fit into a size 8-10, I can shop at some of the cool vintage stores in my part of the world. So I am going to give that a whirl. I need to look positively fashionable, not just presentable, at work. So that is going to be a challenge.