Where do these prices come from?

They are read from the service menus businesses publish on their own websites — 489 individual priced lines across 128 businesses in Adelaide. They are not quotes, and businesses that publish pricing are not a random sample of the market.

How much does hair colour cost in Adelaide?

Published prices for colour work, from root touch-ups to full-head application. This page is the Adelaide cut of it.

The range in Adelaide

Lower quartile: $43
Midpoint: $70
Upper quartile: $115

Half of the hair colour prices published in Adelaide sit between $43 and $115, with a midpoint of $70. That is drawn from 128 businesses in Adelaide that publish this pricing, as collected on 25 September 2026.

Against the rest of the country

The midpoint in Adelaide is $5 below the national midpoint of $75, or about 7 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

Colour is where 'from' pricing does the most work. A large share of these lines are quoted as a starting price, with the final figure depending on how much product a head of hair takes — which is why the upper quartile sits so far above the middle. Toner, gloss and a finishing blow-dry are frequently separate lines rather than included.

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 hair colour prices in other cities, with sample sizes
City	Lower quartile	Midpoint	Upper quartile	Businesses
Sydney	$50	$85	$140	535
Melbourne	$47	$80	$135	515
Brisbane	$46	$83	$145	328
Perth	$45	$70	$130	231
Gold Coast	$45	$65	$110	150
Sunshine Coast	$40	$70	$120	79
Newcastle	$35	$55	$98	40
Central Coast	$40	$60	$119	39
Cairns	$52	$95	$153	33
Wollongong	$52	$105	$229	31

What these numbers are, and are not

Every figure is computed from businesses’ own published service menus — 489 priced lines from 128 businesses in Adelaide, 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, 3,062 businesses in our catalogue offer this service and 3,062 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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Price is one dimension of five. Tell us what you actually want and we will weigh it against the rest.

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