VOGUEhair 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.

One of the best known hair salons in the city, opened around 2005 by Armend Gashi. A team of more than eight, an official Olaplex partner, focused on hair.

In our overall ranking, VOGUEhair sits at number 8 of 15.

Where and when

Area: Pejton, Pristina. Hours are not published.

Services: hair, colour and balayage.

Prices

What the panel said

VOGUEhair is one of the best known and most followed hair names, open since around 2005, with a large team and an Olaplex partnership. A hair-only focus lowers it with the makeup and skin reviewers.

Twenty years in Pejton

VOGUEhair is one of the oldest active hair names in Pristina: founded around 2005 by Armend Gashi, it has nearly two decades of uninterrupted work in the Pejton area. The founder is one of the best documented people in our entire ranking, with a public profile and the personal armend_vogue account on Instagram. In a market where many salons do not even publish the owner's name, this twenty-year continuity under the same leadership is real trust capital.

The team size sets it apart from the small studios: more than eight people work at once, which in practice means more chairs, more possible appointments per day and less dependence on a single person's calendar. The VOGUEhair2005 Facebook page has around 34 thousand followers, one of the largest hair communities in the city, and the salon also has a website, voguehair.net, plus a landline, +383 38 610 334.

The most important technical detail is the official partnership with Olaplex, the professional system that protects and rebuilds the internal bonds of the hair strand during lightening and colouring. Being an official partner, not just a user of the product, means a direct relationship with the brand. For clients aiming at blonde tones or heavy balayage, this is the difference between damaging lightening and a controlled process.

The services: a blonde specialist

The offer covers the whole hair craft: cuts, full colour and, as the centre of gravity, blonde work and balayage. Lightening towards the right blonde tone is technically the most demanding process in colouring: it requires precise assessment of the base, neutralising yellow and orange undertones and structural protection of the strand, exactly where the Olaplex system comes in. The work is published regularly on the voguehair Instagram account, which serves as a living portfolio.

The boundary of the offer is just as clear: VOGUEhair is a hair-only salon. No makeup, no nails, no facials. For part of the clientele this specialisation is precisely a guarantee of focus; for brides and full event preparations it is a limit that requires a second address planned from the start.

Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere

VOGUEhair suits clients after blonde work or balayage with Olaplex protection from a house with two decades of history, and those who value the security of a large team: if one stylist is not free, the other chairs keep working. The landline and the website make first contact simple even for people who do not use social media.

Who should look elsewhere: everything beyond hair needs another address, from makeup to nails. Anyone wanting prices announced in advance will not find them here, nor published hours: both come only through direct contact. And a small but practical detail: business directories give differing addresses for the salon within Pejton, so ask for the exact location when booking rather than trusting outdated maps.

Booking and practical information

The verified channels are four: the landline +383 38 610 334, the voguehair.net website, the voguehair Instagram account and the VOGUEhair2005 Facebook page. For blonde work the standard technical advice applies: send photos of the current state in natural light, describe the previous colouring history and ask whether the target result is achievable in one session. A professional answer to that question says more than any gallery.

Prices: what is known and what is not

VOGUEhair publishes no prices, neither on its own site nor on social media. We found no public list, so ask directly before booking, and for blonde work request the full cost: lightening, toning and the Olaplex treatment can be billed as separate items. For orientation, the city's only public list, B&B Elegance's, gives highlights at 100 euros and balayage from 140; specialised blonde work with a protection system may cost differently, but now you know the market's starting point.

How the reviewers split

With 38 points of 75, VOGUEhair has perhaps the panel's most surprising spread. Fjolla and Klea gave 12 each: for the former, the large team, which keeps slots open even in season, and the many contact channels carried weight; for the latter, the two decades of history and the official partnership with an international brand as a marker of stability. Donika gave 9, a middle mark resting on the business's solid public documentation.

The low scores need an honest explanation, because they stand out: Elira gave 3 and Arta 2. For Arta the arithmetic is simple: with no makeup offer at all, hair-only salons end up at the bottom of her forced list, where every score is used exactly once. For Elira, who was comparing eight hair salons against each other, verifiable information was decisive: against competitors with written hours and complete websites, the differing addresses across directories and the absence of public prices and hours pushed VOGUEhair down her personal order. Neither score is a judgement on the work in the chair; they are the cost of gaps on paper inside a strictly comparative system.