Where do these prices come from?

They are read from the service menus businesses publish on their own websites — 1,578 individual priced lines across 358 businesses in Melbourne. They are not quotes, and businesses that publish pricing are not a random sample of the market.

How much does a blow-dry cost in Melbourne?

Blow-waves, styling and event hair, as published by salons. This page is the Melbourne cut of it.

The range in Melbourne

Lower quartile: $55
Midpoint: $75
Upper quartile: $110

Half of the blow-dry and styling prices published in Melbourne sit between $55 and $110, with a midpoint of $75. That is drawn from 358 businesses in Melbourne that publish this pricing, as collected on 25 September 2026.

Against the rest of the country

The midpoint in Melbourne is $5 below the national midpoint of $80, or about 6 per cent cheaper. That gap is between published price lists, not between quotes, so it describes how businesses advertise rather than what every appointment costs.

Why the range is so wide

Hair length does most of the work here: short, medium and long are quoted as separate lines by almost every salon that prices this at all. Above that sit the occasion lines — curls or waves added to a blow-dry, and formal or bridal styling, which is a different appointment length and priced accordingly.

The other cities

Largest sample first. A city appears only where at least 25 businesses publish this pricing, because below that a single expensive salon moves the whole row.

Published blow-dry and styling prices in other cities, with sample sizes
City	Lower quartile	Midpoint	Upper quartile	Businesses
Sydney	$60	$85	$135	379
Brisbane	$60	$85	$125	195
Perth	$65	$92	$145	110
Gold Coast	$58	$85	$122	90
Adelaide	$60	$79	$110	84
Sunshine Coast	$55	$77	$97	38
Central Coast	$65	$89	$155	25

What these numbers are, and are not

Every figure is computed from businesses’ own published service menus — 1,578 priced lines from 358 businesses in Melbourne, collected on 25 September 2026. None of it is typed in by hand.

A published price is not a quote. What you are charged depends on your hair, your skin and how long the appointment actually takes, and many businesses quote on consultation rather than publishing at all. Nationally, 1,847 businesses in our catalogue offer this service and 1,847 publish a price for it. The ones that publish are not a random sample of the ones that do not.

How we handle data

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