Where do these prices come from?

They are read from the service menus businesses publish on their own websites — 7,342 individual priced lines across 1,730 businesses. They are not quotes, and businesses that publish pricing are not a random sample of the market.

How much do highlights and balayage cost in Australia?

Foils, balayage and lightening work, as priced by the salons that publish it.

The range

Lower quartile: $125
Midpoint: $190
Upper quartile: $277

Half of the published prices sit between $125 and $277, with a midpoint of $190. That is drawn from 1,730 Australian businesses that publish this pricing, as collected on 25 September 2026.

Why the range is so wide

The most expensive category on this site, and the widest. Half-head and full-head are almost always priced separately, balayage usually sits above foils, and corrective work — undoing a previous colour — is often quoted only on consultation, so it is under-represented in the numbers below rather than absent from the market.

By city

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

Published highlights and balayage prices by city, with sample sizes
City	Lower quartile	Midpoint	Upper quartile	Businesses
Sydney	$130	$195	$280	355
Melbourne	$140	$200	$280	322
Brisbane	$130	$205	$320	188
Perth	$125	$185	$258	119
Gold Coast	$130	$210	$348	74
Adelaide	$99	$150	$210	69
Sunshine Coast	$120	$190	$255	43
Cairns	$90	$169	$260	25

What these numbers are, and are not

Every figure is computed from businesses’ own published service menus — 7,342 priced lines from 1,730 businesses, 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 — 1,730 businesses in our catalogue offer this service, and 1,730 of them 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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