I keep mine low.
Because of an injury that flared up last January, I still can't raise my right arm (and hold it up) well enough to go back to cutting my own hair. This fall, I tried, and our department admin assistant stopped me in the hall, pulled me into her office, shut the door, and evened it up with her office scissors. I love that woman.
So I went to the local (to work) beauty school in December when it got so long it was bugging me again. For the $5 it cost, I may go back in a few weeks. So say six times a year. I have a hard time figuring out what to tip on a $5 cut, so I double it and hope that's okay. Annual cost: $60
Other than that, I keep a lipstick and mascara for major presentations and on-camera interviews. I should probably replace the mascara before the next one, but I'll buy whatever's cheapest, $2 or $3 because all I need is for my eyelashes to show up for an hour or so a few times a year. Makeup expenses run me under $5 annually, probably a lot under. annual cost : $5
I can't seem to get my eyebrows the way I want them by myself, so when I have one of those presentations, etc, I get them waxed at $7 and tip. About four times a year, so. $40-50 annually (assuming I have more events this year). I believe the beauty school does threading, which is otherwise unavailable here and which I very much prefer, so I'll investigate costs there. Annual cost: $50
I use Suave shampoo with conditioner in it already, and buy not more often than every four months, so let's assume 4 a year to be conservative. They run $3 each (the conditioner in stuff costs more than the $1 a bottle stuff). Annual cost: $12.
My weakness is pedicures. I go monthly in the summer and a couple of times over the winters, and I don't really want to change that. It comes from my "entertainment" money. I think I'll try the beauty school for this, too, but so far these cost $20 plus tip, so $24 each, about eight times a year (summer lasts six month here). Annual cost: $144
That's it. I've had the same hairbrush for years. I don't put anything in my hair other than the shampoo. Air dry when it's not freezing cold. It's gray, and I think one way women can work to change the social unacceptability of women aging is to age and continue to kick ass, so I'm trying that. I'm in a secure position, so I can be the change and still, you know, eat.
I cut my nails when they get too long to type comfortably. Oh, wait, I did buy a Flowery nail whitening pencil this year after some discussion on here; it cost me $3.95 I think and looks like it will last for many years since I never remember to use it. For the sake of simplicity, let's call it Annual cost: $4
Overall Annual cost, including the entertainment-budget pedicures: $275
Without the pedicures: $131
If I can also get my shoulder and neck healed enough to use my arm properly: $71
I think I can live with the worst-case scenario here, but I'm also looking forward to optimizing with beauty-school pedicures/possibly threading and a return to full mobility.
Edit: forgot shaving. I buy a $1 pack of pink disposable razors less that once a year, shave pits every week or so to keep down the hot flash sweats and shave legs two or three times each summer. One razor lasts several months before it gets too dull. I use my liquid Dr Bronners to shave with (dilute! Dilute! Dilute!), just like I use it for everything else. Shaving may add $.75 annually between razors and added soap usage, but I doubt it.