Hair Time – Sezgin Arslan Pristina: reviews, prices and what to know
A hair salon built around stylist Sezgin Arslan, focused on balayage and keratin. Around 17 thousand Instagram followers, mostly colour transformations.
In our overall ranking, Hair Time – Sezgin Arslan sits at number 15 of 15.
Where and when
Area: Pristina. Hours are not published.
Services: hair, colour and balayage.
Prices
This salon does not publish prices. We could not find a public price list, so ask the salon directly before booking.
What the panel said
Hair Time is a hair salon built around stylist Sezgin Arslan, focused on balayage and keratin with a good online following. It ranks last with this panel, which rewards breadth and a full experience over a single specialty.
Individual scores: Elira 4/15, Arta 1/15, Fjolla 7/15, Donika 7/15, Klea 3/15. Total 22 of 75.
A brand built around one stylist
Hair Time is the purest example in our ranking of the personality salon: everything revolves around stylist Sezgin Arslan, whose name sits inside the very handle of the hairtimesezgin Instagram account. There is no brand separate from the person, no advertised team, no visible structure beyond him. This model has one clear strength, identity, and an equally clear weakness, complete dependence on the calendar of a single pair of hands.
The Instagram presence is considerable for a single studio: around 17 thousand followers and nearly 958 posts, a long archive of colour transformations that works as a public portfolio. That is also where the house's technical profile shows: the emphasis falls on balayage and keratin treatments, the two services that make up the salon's declared identity.
Two information limits must be stated openly. First: a claim of 25 years of the stylist's experience circulated in the panel notes, but we could not verify it from any public source, so we do not present it as fact. Second: of the location, only the city is known, Pristina; no street or number is published anywhere we found. Of the fifteen salons, only The Hair Space has as little address information.
The services: balayage and keratin
Balayage, the freehand painting technique for natural transitions of light, is the first specialty. The second is keratin: the treatment that fills the strand with protein, tames unwanted frizz and gives the hair shine and smoothness for several months. Both are multi-hour procedures that demand experience, and both are maintained with dedicated sulphate-free products at home. Their combination as a declared profile places Hair Time in the same technical band as Etrit Hair and the larger competitor VOGUEhair, but without those two's public documentation.
The boundary of the offer is sharp: hair only. There is no makeup, nails, lashes or facials, and within hair the emphasis falls on colour and treatment rather than cutting as an art of its own. Anyone wanting a full event preparation will need to combine it with at least one other address.
Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere
Hair Time suits the transformation followers: those who have seen Sezgin Arslan's work on Instagram, like his specific hand and want exactly that style of balayage or keratin. For that kind of client, the portfolio of nearly a thousand posts is more convincing than any service list, and the fact that the work is always signed by the same person is a continuity guarantee networks cannot give.
Who should look elsewhere: anyone who wants a written address, published hours or an upfront price, because none exists publicly. For the same band of services with full documentation, Etrit Hair offers a website, hours and a named street. For makeup, nails or face, Hair Time is not an option at all. And anyone unwilling to depend on a single person's calendar, especially in wedding season, should know there is no second chair here.
Contact and practical information
The verified channels are the phone +383 44 398 570, the hairtimesezgin Instagram account and a Facebook page. Since the exact address is not published, the first call or message should secure three things: the precise location, the real hours and a time and price estimate for your service. For a balayage or keratin, send photos of the hair in natural light and mention any previous colour or treatment; both procedures depend heavily on the strand's history.
Seasonal advice: a one-chair studio with a transformation profile fills up fast in July and August, when the diaspora returns. If the portfolio has convinced you and your visit falls in summer, the message should go out weeks ahead, not days. Also ask for written confirmation of the appointment; with structures that publish no hours, a written confirmation is the only certainty you have.
Prices: what is known and what is not
Hair Time publishes no prices. For both house specialties the same question structure applies: for balayage ask the price by your hair's length and condition, for keratin ask about the product brand, the duration of the effect and whether blow-dry and styling are included. For market orientation only the public B&B Elegance list exists: balayage from 140 euros, ombre from 120, colour 40. For keratin there is no public price in Pristina, so any figure you receive must be weighed carefully against what it includes.
How the reviewers split
With 22 points of 75, Hair Time closes our ranking, and it is fair to explain precisely why. The two highest marks, 7 each, came from Fjolla and Donika. Fjolla saw a clear identity findable from abroad: anyone in the diaspora can view the work on Instagram before deciding, which not every salon on the list offers. Donika valued the clarity of the technical profile: two declared specialties are easier to assess than a vague list of everything.
The other marks follow the panel's structure, not any judgement of the work: Elira gave 4, because in the forced comparison among eight hair salons, Hair Time offers none of the verifiable things its competitors have, from hours to an address; Klea gave 3, because her value beat has no price, schedule or structure to measure; and Arta gave 1, her lowest, the same logic she applied to every salon without makeup. The fair conclusion is this: Hair Time is a profile with a clear technical identity and minimal public documentation, and in a ranking that rewards verifiability, the latter decides.
Frequently asked questions
Does Sezgin Arslan really have 25 years of experience?
This claim circulated in our panel notes, but we could not verify it from any public source, so we do not present it as fact. What is verifiable is his work: nearly a thousand transformation posts on the hairtimesezgin Instagram account.
Where is Hair Time located?
Publicly only the city is known: Pristina. No street or number is published anywhere we could find. Ask for the exact location by phone on +383 44 398 570 or by Instagram message before planning a visit.
What is a keratin treatment and how long does the effect last?
Keratin fills the hair strand with protein, tames unwanted frizz and gives shine and smoothness that usually lasts several months, depending on the product and home care with sulphate-free shampoo. Ask the salon about the product brand and expected duration before booking.
Does Hair Time do makeup or nails?
No, Hair Time works with hair only, focused on balayage and keratin. For makeup see B&B Elegance, FRK Beauty or Njomza; for nails Red Beauty Corner or Serpent Claws; for facials B&B Elegance or estethica.
Why does Hair Time rank last?
Because our panel rewards verifiability and breadth, and Hair Time publishes no address, no hours, no prices, and covers hair only. The technical identity is clear and the work documented on Instagram; last place measures public information, not the stylist's hand.