The present invention discloses a method for reporting a power headroom report and a user equipment, which are applied in the field of communications. The method includes triggering reporting of a first power headroom report and determining that a condition of sending the first power headroom report is satisfied. The condition of sending the first power headroom report includes a determination that uplink data channel transmission occurs in a current transmission time interval. The first power headroom report is obtained. The first power headroom report includes a first power headroom value that includes a difference between maximum transmitting power of a carrier and a sum of transmitting power of a control channel of the carrier and transmitting power of a data channel of the carrier.