Kim Kardashian's Met Gala Ponytail Cost $10K, Hairstylist Reveals
Gulp.


Kim Kardashian isn't exactly known for penny-pinching, but one of her latest expenses has still caused my jaw to drop so low it threatened to detach from my face.
We've all seen Kardashian's Met Gala look (opens in new tab), which turned her into an all-black silhouette courtesy of Balenciaga (opens in new tab). ICYMI, here is Kendall Jenner (opens in new tab) with her demons—um, I mean her sister:
Although I'm sure that outfit didn't come cheap, it's the price of the ponytail that's truly raising some eyebrows. Chris Appleton (opens in new tab), Kim Kardashian's hairstylist for the occasion, recently took to Instagram Stories (via Cosmopolitan UK (opens in new tab)) to answer his followers' burning questions, one of which was: "How much did that 75inch pony cost?" Appleton answered simply, "10k." Gulp. That's, what, a year's rent?
I mean, I guess it makes sense that a hairstyle that required its own assistant wouldn't cost, like, $10, but still.
It's also worth remembering, as Cosmo UK pointed out, that that was just the price of the extensions themselves, not how much it cost to attach them to Kardashian's person.
Obviously, the TV personality and businesswoman can afford to go all out to this extent for events like these: She became a billionaire (opens in new tab) earlier this year, which she can largely attribute to her two brands, KKW Beauty (opens in new tab) and Skims (opens in new tab).
For the latter, she recently made the genius business decision to hire Megan Fox (opens in new tab) and Kourtney Kardashian (opens in new tab) as her latest underwear models (opens in new tab). I can see how that would pay off, TBH.
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Iris Goldsztajn is a London-based journalist, editor and author. She is the morning editor at Marie Claire, and her work has appeared in the likes of InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Bustle and Shape. Iris writes about everything from celebrity news and relationship advice to the pitfalls of diet culture and the joys of exercise. She has many opinions on Harry Styles, and can typically be found eating her body weight in cheap chocolate.
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