Etrit Hair Pristina: reviews, prices and what to know

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Elira Krasniqi

Hair: cuts, colour and treatments

Elira follows hairstyling trends and hair care, from cuts to colour and treatments. She writes about the techniques that give a healthy result and how to tell good work from an expensive mistake.

A hair salon opened in 2019 by stylist Etrit Tullumi, specialized in colour and balayage. It does not offer makeup. It has its own website with a gallery and team.

In our overall ranking, Etrit Hair sits at number 4 of 15.

Where and when

Area: Street C, Pristina. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 18:00.

Services: hair, colour and balayage.

Prices

What the panel said

Etrit Hair is a strong hair choice: colour and balayage from a named stylist, with its own website and clear hours. It does not offer makeup, so it slips with reviewers who want a full beauty service.

The salon of a named stylist

Etrit Hair is built around one person: Etrit Tullumi, a master stylist who opened his own salon in 2019, after more than fifteen years in the profession. This is the author-studio model, where the name above the door is also the hand that cuts and colours. For the client, that means something concrete: you know in advance the work carries the signature of an identifiable stylist, not of an anonymous team that changes from visit to visit.

The salon sits on Pristina's Street C; the exact building number is not published, but the street is. The hours are clear and written: Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 18:00, Sunday off. The ten o'clock start, later than most, is itself a data point: it suggests a working rhythm of planned appointments rather than a spontaneous morning queue.

What sets Etrit Hair apart in the Pristina market is the website: etrithair.com is a complete professional site, in Albanian and English, with sections for the story, services, gallery, team and products. In a market where most salons survive on Instagram alone, such a structured presentation is a rare investment and a sign of seriousness our panel weighed.

The services: colour as the specialty

The offer is deliberately concentrated: cuts, professional colour, highlights and balayage. Balayage, the technique where colour is painted freehand onto sections of hair for a natural play of light and shade, is the declared specialty of the house. Unlike foil highlights, balayage requires a visual judgement of every section and long experience with lightening levels, which is why the quality depends so heavily on the hand doing it.

Alongside the services, the salon also sells premium haircare products. For colour-treated clients this has practical logic: maintaining a balayage depends on the products used at home, and a salon that sells them itself can recommend the same line it works with. It is part of the full-studio model, where the advice does not stop at the door.

Just as clear is the other side of the coin: Etrit Hair does not offer makeup, and says so explicitly. There are no nails, no facials, no bridal services beyond the hair itself. This is pure specialisation, not a hidden gap, but you need to know it before planning a full event preparation.

Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere

Etrit Hair suits clients after a well-planned colour transformation from a named stylist: balayage, dark-to-light transitions, or simply a cut from someone with fifteen years of experience. It also suits those who want to see the work beforehand: the gallery on the website and the etrithair Instagram account make that possible.

Who should look elsewhere: brides and anyone wanting hair plus makeup in one place should pick B&B Elegance, Njomza or the Passion network. For nails or facials, this salon is not an option at all. And anyone needing late evening hours faces a real limit: the door closes at 18:00, two hours earlier than estethica or Passion.

Booking and practical information

The verified channels are the etrithair.com website, the etrithair Instagram account and a Facebook page with around 1.2 thousand followers. The published hours, Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 18:00, make planning easy. Since the building number on Street C is not published, ask for exact location directions when confirming the appointment.

For a balayage, the preliminary conversation matters more than anywhere else: send photos of your hair's current state, especially if it was coloured before, and ask for a time and price estimate before coming. Big colour transformations can take several hours and sometimes need more than one session, something an experienced stylist will tell you upfront.

Prices: what is known and what is not

Etrit Hair publishes no prices, neither on its own website nor on social media. We found no public list, so figures come only by asking. For market orientation there is a single public reference point in Pristina, the B&B Elegance list: there, balayage starts from 140 euros, highlights cost 100 and full colour 40. The pricing of an author studio specialising in balayage may sit differently, but at least you know what level is being discussed in the city.

How the reviewers split

Etrit Hair took 52 points of 75, with the panel's most dramatic split. Elira, the hair reviewer, gave 13: clear specialisation, a named stylist, a public gallery and written hours are exactly what her beat rewards. Donika also gave 13, her third-highest mark, resting on the same structural logic: a professional site, clear information, a verifiable identity. Arta gave 12, acknowledging the level even though makeup, her beat, is entirely absent. Fjolla gave 10: the published hours help planning from abroad, but the lack of prices and of an exact address number pull it down.

The score that stands out is Klea's 4, and it deserves an honest explanation. Her beat measures the whole experience and value for money, and in a system where every score from 1 to 15 is used exactly once, salons without public prices and with a one-dimensional offer naturally fall lower on her list than large structures with long hours and many services. Her score is not a judgement on the quality of the hair work, which she cannot assess better than Elira; it is the price of narrow specialisation in a beat that demands breadth.

How a balayage session runs

For those who have never had one, the process is worth knowing. A proper balayage starts with the consultation: the existing base is assessed, the target tone discussed and the lightening strategy set. Then the hair is divided into sections and the colour is painted freehand, strand group by strand group, concentrating towards the ends. After the processing time comes toning, which neutralises unwanted undertones, and finally the blow-dry and styling. All of this usually takes three to five hours depending on length and density, so both the price and the appointment should be thought of as half a day, not an hour.

Maintenance is the other half of the result, and this is where the salon selling premium products connects naturally: a balayage is preserved with sulphate-free shampoo, periodic toners against yellowing and heat protection before any flat iron. A full refresh is usually needed after three or four months, which makes balayage one of the most time-economical colour choices: grown-out roots do not immediately look like a problem, because the transition is soft from the start.

The website makes this salon perhaps the easiest of all to evaluate in advance: go through the gallery, pick two or three works similar to your hair and your goal, and send them as references together with your own photo when requesting the appointment. That five-minute ritual raises the quality of the first conversation more than any general question, and it works the same through the etrithair Instagram account.