Woman quoted £3k for haircut travels thousands of miles for cheaper appointment

A woman who was quoted £3,200 to have her hair cut and coloured at her local salon decided to save cash by flying over 6,000 miles to Turkey for the treatment instead.

Bryn Elise, from the US, explained that her regular hometown hairdressers told her it would be $4,000 (£3,273) to have her hair bleached and toned, as well as having 24″ extensions put in.

Stunned at the price, thrifty Bryn decided to travel to Turkey for her hair appointment – where the same treatment cost just $450 (£368), the Mirror reports.

Posting to TikTok, she said her flights, haircut, and two-week holiday ended up costing less than the quote she got from her local salon – and she’s delighted with the finished result.

She wrote on her viral clip: “When you get quoted $4000 to get your dream hair in the US so you fly to Turkey and get it done there instead.

“It cost less including my two-week vacation here.”

Bryn, who posts on TikTok under the username @bryn.elise, also noted in the comments that her hairdressers back home weren’t “trying to rip her off”, but that the £3.2k price tag made her “jaw drop” so she looked for alternatives.

She explained: “First off, I love my salon in the US – they do an amazing job. But $4,000 for anything is enough to make my jaw drop so I went looking for alternatives.

“I paid $450 plus tip in Turkey for 8 hours of blonding, toning, and high-quality 24” hair extensions for my super thick hair! No, my salon in the US wasn’t trying to rip me off, I’ve been going to them for years and they’ve been slowly increasing their prices to keep up with demand.

“But when they raised extension prices for my colour, length and amount from $2000 to $3000, I figured with the colour I needed, treatments and tip it would come out to be over $4000 and that’s why I chose Turkey.”

And Bryn also revealed that she chose to go to Turkey after finding her “favourite hair inspiration picture” and discovering that the stylist who created the look lived and worked in the country.

She said: “I took a look at my favourite ‘hair inspiration picture’ I had saved on Instagram, saw that the stylist who did it lives in Turkey and thought, if I’m going to spend a small fortune on my hair I might as well get it done by my dream stylist!

“Two months later, I made it to Turkey, got my dream hair done by my dream stylist for $450 and fell in love with this beautiful country along the way!”

Commenters on the TikTok video were shocked at the original price Bryn was quoted, but many of them said they loved the finished result of the woman’s long blonde hair.

One person said: “For $4k I better be 20lbs lighter and 20 years younger when they’re done!”

While another added: “$450 is a steal for this hair, blonde girls get it. The toning, colouring and lifting. You look fantastic!”

And a third wrote: “Well it looks good! Happy you turned one hair appointment into a vacation while still getting your hair done.”

In total, Bryn spent $2,200 (£1,800) on her flights, hair, and a two-week stay in Turkey – saving herself almost half of the cost of her haircut in the US and bagging a holiday at the same time.

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