Exquisite Pulchritude stands as a beacon of creativity and care in Lusaka's beauty scene, specializing in delightful hairstyles for kids and adults. With a range of services including intricate natural twists, and stylish braids, each visit promises a blend of skill and a warm, welcoming atmosphere. As a woman-owned salon committed to eco-friendly practices, it ensures that both clients and the environment are treated with the utmost respect.

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Add a playful, bouncy finish to your Fulani braids with expertly crafted curls at the ends. Achieved using bending rollers and hot water, this technique gives your style a soft, natural movement while maintaining a polished look. Perfect for those who love a touch of flair.

Curls

Add a playful, bouncy finish to your knotless braids with expertly crafted curls at the ends. Achieved using bending rollers and hot water, this technique gives your style a soft, natural movement while maintaining a polished look. Perfect for those who love a touch of flair.

Featured

Enjoy ultimate flexibility—walk in (NO FEE) or book ahead for just K100 per person during working hours. We make your experience seamless and convenient. Service fees are non-refundable, but you can reschedule. Please note a 15-minute grace period applies; late arrivals will be treated as walk-ins.

Express Appointments - During working hours

Enjoy beautifully detailed hairstyles during our special early or late hours. 
Book your preferred slot between 06:00-08:00 or 16:00-22:00 and experience expert styling that suits your schedule. Perfect for those who need flexibility without compromising on style.  
Service fees are non-refundable, but you can reschedule. 

Early/late shift service - Detailed Styles

Enjoy the convenience of simple hairstyle services available during early morning hours from 06:00 to 08:00, or in the evening from 18:30 to 22:00. 
Perfect for fitting beauty into your busy schedule, these time slots are designed for your flexibility.
Service fees are non-refundable, but you can reschedule. 

Early/late shift service - Simple Styles

APPOINTMENT SERVICE FEE

Step into elegance with flawless makeup artistry tailored to your personal style. Our skilled team delivers professional makeup services to suit any occasion. Please note that down payments are non-refundable, but appointments can be rescheduled for your convenience within a month.

Beauty Parlour Ordinary Makeup

Beauty Parlour Bridal Makeup

Start your day looking flawless with our early morning house call makeup service, available from 04:00 to 08:00 for an extra fee. Transport is K300 for nearby areas and K600 for longer distances, using only our company vehicles. Down payments are non-refundable, but you may reschedule your appointment within a month.

House Call Bridal Makeup

House Call Ordinary Makeup

MAKEUP

Each length attracts an additional k70 wig inclusive and above. This length starts from the bum


Kids Extra Length/Size 

These are a stylish and intricate type of braided hairstyle that combines the sleek structure of traditional cornrows with the woven, overlapping pattern of a fishtail braid. Created by braiding hair close to the scalp in a fishtail pattern, these cornrows offer a textured and detailed look. The style is popular for its unique aesthetic and versatility, often worn in creative patterns or combined with other braid styles for a modern, eye-catching appearance. Price includes wigs.



Kids Fishtail Straight backs

Kids Fishtail (2 puffs)

Kids Fishtail (1 puff)

Plain cornrows with extensions feature traditional, straight-back braids enhanced with added hair for extra length, density, or creative flair. This timeless style is sleek, functional, and highly customizable—ideal for athletic clients, busy lifestyles, or those wanting a minimalist yet polished look. The extensions blend seamlessly to create sharp, defined rows that protect natural hair and reduce tangling. Plain cornrows last 3-5 weeks and can serve as a base for wigs, weaves, or standalone statement styling. Price includes wigs

Kids Plain Cornrows with Extensions (2 puffs)

Kids Plain Cornrows with Extensions (1 puff)

Kids Plain Cornrows with Extensions (Straight backs)

Neat, straight rows create a timeless look with these classic cornrows. This style offers a clean, sleek finish while protecting your child’s hair and supporting healthy growth. Perfect for easy maintenance, plain cornrows work well for any occasion and suit all hair types.

Kids Plain Cornrows

Transform your child’s look with stunning goddess braids that offer elegance and versatility. This protective style can be worn in updos, ponytails, or cascading down, making it perfect for both everyday moments and special occasions. Give their hair a touch of regal charm and lasting beauty. Price includes wigs

Kids Godess Braids 

Fulani-inspired bob, also known as fish and drop. Featuring fishtail cornrows styled on the side or ear to ear, this look uses x-pression hair for a modern touch. Enjoy a blend of traditional braiding with a chic, easy-to-manage length that’s perfect for any occasion. Price includes wigs.

Kids Fulani Braids

Experience a gentle, natural look with knotless twists that protect delicate hair. The feed-in technique reduces tension at the roots for a comfortable, lightweight style that blends beautifully with your child’s natural texture. Enjoy a low-manipulation style that lasts 4-6 weeks. Price includes wigs.

Kids Knotless Twists 

Discover a gentle, tension-free option with braids that start seamlessly from your child’s natural hair. Lightweight and natural-looking, this style is kind to sensitive scalps and edges. Enjoy a flawless finish that lasts 6-8 weeks. Please note, pricing includes wigs for added convenience.

Kids Knotless Braids 

KIDS HAIR AND MAKEUP

Refresh your sew-in or installation with gentle unplaiting, thorough washing, and careful detangling. This service helps maintain the health and manageability of your hair, ensuring a clean and comfortable foundation for your next style. Experience professional care from start to finish.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Sew-ins & Installations

Refresh your look with careful unplaiting, thorough washing, and gentle detangling of faux locs. This service helps remove your protective style safely, cleanses your hair, and ensures it is left smooth and manageable. Enjoy a comfortable, professional experience every step of the way.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Faux locs

Refresh your look and keep your hair healthy with a gentle unplaiting, thorough washing, and careful detangling of micro twists with extensions. This service helps maintain your hair’s condition and prepares it for your next style in a comfortable, relaxing environment.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Micro Twists with Extensions

Give your natural hair the care it deserves with a gentle removal of micro twists, thorough washing, and careful detangling. This service helps maintain healthy hair, making sure your strands stay clean, manageable, and ready for your next style. Enjoy a relaxing experience that supports strong, beautiful hair.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Micro Twists on natural hair

Refresh your look with a gentle unplaiting, followed by thorough washing and careful detangling of your fulani braids. This service helps maintain healthy hair and prepares it for your next style. Enjoy a relaxing experience handled by caring professionals.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Fulani Braids

Refresh your look with a gentle unplaiting, followed by thorough washing and careful detangling of your fishtail. This service helps maintain healthy hair and prepares it for your next style. Enjoy a relaxing experience handled by caring professionals.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Fishtail

Refresh your look with a gentle unplaiting, followed by thorough washing and careful detangling of your knotless braids. This service helps maintain healthy hair and prepares it for your next style. Enjoy a relaxing experience handled by caring professionals.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Knotless Braids

Refresh your natural twists with a gentle unplaiting, followed by a thorough wash and careful detangling. This service helps maintain the health and manageability of your hair, leaving it clean, soft, and ready for your next style. Enjoy a relaxing experience that brings out the best in your natural look.

Unplaiting,Washing and Detangling - Natural Twists

Refresh your hair with a gentle takedown of plain cornrows, followed by a thorough wash and careful detangling. This service helps maintain healthy hair by removing old braids, cleansing the scalp, and ensuring strands are smooth and manageable. Enjoy a clean, comfortable start for your next style.

Unplaiting, Washing and Detangling Plain - Cornrows

UNPLAITING, WASHING AND BLOWING

Revive your hair with a nourishing treatment designed to deeply moisturise and restore. Enjoy a relaxing steam process that helps your hair absorb essential hydration, leaving it feeling softer and looking healthier. Ideal for anyone seeking extra care and a refreshed look.

Deep Conditioning & Steaming

Experience the soothing touch of natural shea butter with this gentle scalp steaming treatment. Warm steam helps to envelop your scalp, creating a relaxing moment while your hair and roots receive extra care. Enjoy a simple way to refresh and nourish your scalp in a tranquil salon setting.

Shea Butter Steaming

Revitalise your hair with a nourishing boost designed to strengthen and restore. This treatment combines protein therapy with gentle steaming to help support healthier-looking hair and scalp. Ideal for anyone seeking to improve hair texture and manageability.

Protein Treatment & Steaming

HAIR TREATMENTS

Transform your look with a complete color change from roots to ends. This service offers full-head coverage, creating a seamless and even result for those seeking a bold, refreshed appearance. Enjoy professional care and attention for vibrant, uniform color throughout your hair.

Dying full head from roots

Refresh the look of your hair with a touch of vibrant color at the tips. This service is perfect for adding subtle highlights or enhancing your current style with a pop of color. Enjoy a simple way to update your appearance and express your personality.

Dying Tips

HAIR COLORING

Restore your hair’s beauty with expert mending tailored to your needs. The final result depends on the size of the area being restored, so we recommend sharing a photo or letting us assess your hair in person for the best outcome.

Mending - Hair

HAIR MENDING

Add a creative touch to your look with this unique hair wrapping service. Yarn wraps offer a fun way to express your style while protecting your natural hair. Choose from a range of vibrant options for a style that's uniquely yours. Yarn included

Yarn Wraps

YARN WRAPS

Enjoy a stylish look with hair picked and left loose at the ends, curled beautifully using bending rollers and hot water. This technique creates soft, bouncy curls for a unique and elegant finish to your braided style. Wigs inclusive

Picking using Expression Hair

Elevate your style with expertly picked braids tailored for curly hair. Achieve a neat, defined finish that enhances your natural texture while keeping your look fresh and stylish. Perfect for anyone wanting a beautiful, tidy appearance that celebrates their curls. Wigs included.

Picking using Curly Hair

PICKING

Experience the elegance of traditional straight-back braids paired with extensions for added length and volume. This classic, low-maintenance style is perfect for active individuals or anyone seeking a chic, minimalist look. Extensions are expertly blended for sharp, defined rows that help protect your natural hair and reduce tangling. Enjoy up to 3-5 weeks of beautiful, versatile wear—whether as a base for wigs, weaves, or as a striking standalone style.

Plain Cornrows with Extensions

Plain cornrows are a classic and simple braided hairstyle where the hair is neatly braided close to the scalp in straight rows. This low-maintenance style is known for its clean, sleek appearance and protective qualities, helping to reduce breakage and promote healthy hair growth. Cornrows can be worn by people of all ages and are often used as a base for more intricate styles.


Plain Cornrows Normal Size

Stylish plain cornrows take the classic straight-back braid look and elevate it with added precision, sleekness, and flair. While still simple in pattern, these cornrows often feature clean parts, sharp edges, and a polished finish that give a modern, fashionable edge. They’re a versatile and protective style that can be dressed up or down, making them perfect for both everyday wear and special occasions.


Stylish/Detailed Cornrows

PLAIN CORNROWS

Transform your look with a versatile sew in, designed to give you fuller, longer hair with a natural finish. This service offers a secure style that can be customized to suit your personal taste, perfect for those seeking a fresh, polished appearance. Enjoy confidence with every step.

Sew-Ins

A sleek ponytail using gel involves applying a strong-hold gel to gathered hair, followed by brushing with a hard-bristle brush or boar bristle brush to smooth it into place and create a high-shine, matted finish.

Ponytail (labour)

Natural hair-styling with afro extensions using gel involves clean hair to define the curls of the extensions, then applying the styled extensions to the natural hair, often after braiding and using techniques like wrapping and twisting.

Natural Hair-styling with Afro extensions

HAIR STYLING

Crochet faux locs are a pre-made hair extension that uses a latch hook to be crocheted into braided hair, creating a protective hairstyle with a natural loc look without the need for wrapping.

Crocheting

A protective hairstyle combining the structure of faux locs with the relaxed aesthetic of the bohemian lifestyle, characterized by a messy, textured, and asymmetrical appearance with loose, curly, or wavy strands woven throughout.

Bohemian locs (labour)

FAUX LOCS

Done with major mending . Maintain the health and neat appearance of your Sister Locs with this essential retie session, recommended 3 weeks to a month after your initial installation. This important appointment helps keep your locs secure and looking fresh, ensuring continued progress on your loc journey. Enjoy a free in-person consultation to discuss your price.

Sister locs - Retie after Direct Start (Major mending)

done with little to no mending. Maintain the health and neat appearance of your Sister Locs with this essential retie session, recommended 3 weeks to a month after your initial installation. This important appointment helps keep your locs secure and looking fresh, ensuring continued progress on your loc journey.

Sister locs - Retie after Direct Start (No mending)

Done a month or two months after mirco twists. Do not unbraid the twists before coming for a retie. They locs are made using the micro twists.

Sister locs - Retie after Micro Twists

Transform your natural hair into beautiful, permanent sister locs in two phases, a perfect trial phase to fall in love with the look! These non-permanent styles last up to 2 months, giving you time to decide if Sister Locs are right for you. 

Sister locs - Start with Micro Twists

Transform your natural hair into beautiful, permanent sister locs in just one day. This direct method ensures lasting results, with prices ranging from K2500 to K4000 based on your hair texture and length. Enjoy a free in-person consultation to discuss your look, preferences and price.

Sister locs - Start

SISTER LOCS

These non-permanent styles last up to 3 months, giving you time to decide if Sister Locs are right for you.

Micro Twists

Enjoy a polished look with twists that begin with a neat three-strand knot, perfect for those who appreciate crisp, defined lines at the base of each twist. This style offers a flawless foundation and a sophisticated finish.

Natural Twists with a knot 

Experience the beauty of tradition with ear-to-ear cornrows inspired by Fulani artistry. These intricate cornrows are styled from one ear to the other, with twists at the back

Natural Twists with ear to ear/fulani cornrows

This striking style combines sleek cornrows and twists on one side of the head, creating a bold, asymmetrical look or a full head of glossy, defined twists crafted with nourishing Shea butter for enhanced moisture and hold. 

Natural Twists with side/no cornrows

TWO STRAND NATURAL TWISTS

Looking to make a statement with your style? Enjoy added length and a striking look with this twist extension service. Perfect for those who love the beauty of longer twists and a fuller appearance, this option lets you express yourself with confidence and flair. Extra lenth will range between k230 and k280 wigs inclusive.

Extra Length

Medium-sized sections of hair are twisted with extensions for added thickness and length. This style strikes a balance between durability and ease of installation, offering a textured, voluminous look. Price includes wigs.

Micro Twists with Wigs 

Twist with Wigs - Mini Size

Twists with Wigs - Small Size

Twists with Wigs - Medium Size

Coco Twists

TWISTS WITH EXTENSION

Blend multiple extension colors to create a unique, custom shade tailored just for you. Achieve the perfect look by combining two or more colors for beautiful, personalized Fulani braids that show off your individual style.

Wig Mixing

Fishtail cornrows elevate classic cornrows with a intricate two-strand weave technique, creating a detailed, woven pattern reminiscent of a fishtail. This meticulous design adds depth and texture, perfect for clients desiring a standout look. Durable and versatile, they can be styled in curves or straight lines, offering a chic protective option that lasts 3-5 weeks while showcasing expert craftsmanship. This is wigs inclusive

Straight Back or Puff - Big Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Straight Backs or Puff - Big Size (using x-pression)

Straight Backs or Puff - Medium Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Straight Backs or Puff - Small Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Straight Backs or Puff - Small Size (using x-pression)

FISHTAIL CORNROWS

Take your Fulani braids to the next level with extra length options, starting from bum length to thigh. Each length attracts an additional charge, ranging from K90 (wigs inclusive) for bum length to K160 (wigs inclusive) for thigh length. Perfect for those who love a dramatic, flowing look.

Exra length (using Doremi/Darling)

Take your Fulani braids to the next level with extra length options, starting from bum length to thigh. Each length attracts an additional charge, ranging from K190 (wigs inclusive) for bum length to K260 (wigs inclusive) for thigh length. Perfect for those who love a dramatic, flowing look.

Exra length (using x-pression)

Fulani braids with a curly sew-in is a protective hairstyle combining classic Fulani cornrow braids at the front and sides with a voluminous sew-in of curly extensions in the back, creating a balanced look of intricate braids and glamorous curls.

Fulani - sew-in with curly extensions

Turn heads with this unique Fulani-inspired bob, also known as fish and drop. Featuring fishtail cornrows styled on the side or ear to ear, this look uses x-pression hair for a modern touch. Enjoy a blend of traditional braiding with a chic, easy-to-manage length that’s perfect for any occasion. Price includes wigs.

Fulani - Waist Length/Medium Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Fulani - Waist Length/Medium Size (using x-pression)

Fulani - Waist Length/Small Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Fulani - Waist Length/Small Size (using x-pression)

Fulani - Bob/Medium Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Fulani - Bob/Medium Size (using x-pression)

 Fulani - Bob/Small Size (using Doremi/Darling)

FULANI BRAIDS

Blend multiple extension colors to create a unique, custom shade tailored just for you. Achieve the perfect look by combining two or more colors for beautiful, personalized knotless braids that show off your individual style.

Take your knotless braids to the next level with extra length options, starting from bum length to thigh. Each length attracts an additional charge, ranging from K90 (wigs inclusive) for bum length to K160 (wigs inclusive) for thigh length. Perfect for those who love a dramatic, flowing look.

Take your knotless braids to the next level with extra length options, starting from bum length to thigh. Each length attracts an additional charge, ranging from K190 (wigs inclusive) for bum length to K260 (wigs inclusive) for thigh length. Perfect for those who love a dramatic, flowing look.

Experience a seamless, tension-free style that’s gentle on your scalp and edges. Knotless braids blend natural hair with extensions for a lightweight, natural look that lasts 4-8 weeks. Enjoy low-maintenance elegance that’s perfect for sensitive scalps. Price includes wigs.

Knotless Twist - Waist Length/Jumbo Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Knotless Twist - Waist Length/Jumbo Size (using x-pression)

Knotless Twist - Waist Length/Big Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Knotless Twist - Waist Length/Big Size (using x-pression)

Knotless Twist - Waist Length/Medium Size (using Doremi/Darling)

Knotless Twist - Waist Length/Medium Size (using x-pression)

Turn heads with a sleek, modern look featuring knotless braids in a chic bob style. This service uses X-pression hair for lightweight, comfortable braids that are gentle on your scalp. Ideal for those seeking a stylish and low-maintenance protective hairstyle. Wigs included in the price.

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