Tipping Hair/makeup stylist on top of fee?

I personally don't think the fees should affect their tip. You should tip based on performance 15%-20%.

Yes I would say you need to tip as well. We had to pay parking for my makeup artist as well (also in a major downtown city) but she offered to use Spothero so her parking ended up being like $25 instead of the $60 it would have cost to park at our hotel. So that saved us a little bit.

You tip based on the quality of service. Did they go above and beyond or just show up with nothing special?

I would still tip, but I would let her know about the parking situation and see what she says. I wouldn’t assume my client would pay for that, if I was the artist.

...follow-up: the parking I’d assume is wrapped up in the “on site fee”, it’s part of getting onto the site?

View Quoted Comment Call/email to be sure. Better to get all the details than to assume.

View Quoted Comment I assumed but I should definitely double check.

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Yes I would recommend double checking and/or checking your contract. My contract stated very clearly that we'd have to pay for the MUA's parking but if yours doesn't mention anything then maybe this is already covered

Yup, still have to tip.

In general, if it was gratuity that was added, I wouldn't tip on top of that. If it's a service fee, I would give a tip. Since it's an on-site fee and not gratuity, I would still give a tip in this case. Double check with them on the parking fee though - that may be covered by the on-site fee.