Luxora hair price index
The same braiding hair pack, priced at the same South African stores, every month. The first reading, taken on 6 Oct 2026, puts the hair for a medium, mid-back knotless install at R247 to R517 in Oct 2026.
Hair for a medium, mid-back knotless install (5.5 packs)
See the numbers as a table
| Month | Cosmetic Connection | Hair City | Clicks | PEP | Takealot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | R258 | R247 | R330 | R313 | R517 |
Method
- Same product every month: X-pression Ultra Braid, one standard pack, plain colours (ombre, exotic and multi-packs left out).
- The price each store lists online, including VAT, excluding delivery, whether or not it is in stock that day.
- Basket = the pack count for a medium, mid-back knotless install from our knotless braids page, times one pack.
- A store that stops listing the product shows as a gap, never filled in.
Use it
Journalists and researchers may quote the index with credit and a link to this page. Readings run on the first Monday of each month from November 2026.
How the index works
Braiding hair is the one hair cost almost every South African who braids pays again and again, and its price moves quietly: a few rand here, a promotion there, a store that stops stocking a colour. The index tracks one widely sold product so the number means the same thing every month.
We chose X-pression Ultra Braid because five of the stores we read list it online: Cosmetic Connection, Hair City, Clicks, PEP and Takealot, all on 6 Oct 2026. Each store's lowest listed price for one standard pack is the reading for that store.
What the numbers are
One pack is the price of a single pack as listed. The basket multiplies that by the number of packs a medium, mid-back knotless install usually needs, taken from the pack table on our knotless braids page, so it is the hair cost of a typical install at that store, not the braider's fee.
Takealot is a marketplace, so its listed price comes from whichever seller holds the listing that day. It is shown because many people buy there, not because it is a like-for-like shelf price.
What the index is not
It is not an average of all braiding hair, and it does not include install costs. Prices in physical stores can differ from the online price, and specials can change a price within days. Each reading is a snapshot of what the stores' own websites showed on the day we read them.
- First reading: 6 Oct 2026 (a Tuesday; the method's first-Monday rule starts with the November reading).
- Stores: Cosmetic Connection, Hair City, Clicks, PEP and Takealot.
- Corrections: if a store tells us a reading is wrong we fix it and note the change on this page.