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Talent show star Susan Boyle gets a £100 look to dye for at her local salon
Sri Carmichael24.04.09
Singing sensation Susan Boyle today revealed the radical new look that cost her just £100.
Gone were the frumpy frock, wedge of frizzy hair and astonishingly unruly brows.
The attempt at budget high street chic may not be to everyone's taste, but onlookers agreed the preened eyebrows and dyed, trimmed hair lopped years off the Britain's Got Talent singer.
The wiry grey mess on top of her head was transformed into a shaggy brown crop for £35 at a salon in Whitburn, West Lothian, near her home.
But those who witnessed the 47-year-old unemployed spinster's secret metamorphosis at Miss Toner's parlour said the key to her image was a simple £5 treatment — an eyebrow pluck. One passer-by said: “It took just a few minutes and it lifted her face.”
Today she wore a new outfit to show it off, estimated to have cost less than £60.
Her favourite Primark faux-leather jacket, which cost £16, was teamed with a white smock and beige trousers, thought to cost £15 each. She also added a designer copy scarf, which can be picked up on a market stall for about £10.
After Miss Boyle's rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables stunned Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell and won her millions of fans, she promised fame would not change her — even though she was made favourite to win the show's £100,000 prize.
But it seems being dubbed the “hairy angel” finally got to her.
Villagers said staff at Miss Toner's pulled down the blinds yesterday while they gave their celebrity client her beauty overhaul.
Miss Boyle's rise to fame took another bizarre leap today after she was name-checked in cult cartoon South Park.
In the episode, Fatbeard, the characters decide to run away and join a pirate crew in Somalia, with Kyle's little brother Ike telling his parents he was fed up with people talking about the singer.
As photographs of Miss Boyle's makeover hit the internet, compliments flooded in. One post on a fan website read: “Every woman wants to feel and look lovely.”
Comment: Just like her, it's so wrong it's right
Reader views (9)
I say good for her, its rare that any of us get a moment in the sun.... have fun susan and enjoy the ride!
- Bluepilgram, New York, NY
Please Susan don't go too far in changing 'our' Susan and above all Susan don't loose that cheeky little smile !
- Terry. B, Toulouse, France
she looks great...it sure would be nice if people were supportive of her. part of of the fun for her is having people share her journey. susan is discovering a whole new life. who are we to expect her not to change and find her outer beauty to match her inner beauty. i say, go for it, susan!
- Behappy4er, newyork US
I'd ask for my money back if I were her.
- Ying-Hui, london
Ahh. The beginning of the end..................
To be expected but what a shame................
A 'New identity' Susan, but the original one was unique.
Best of luck to someone who has touched millions of us.
- Radz, Expat!, Copenhagen , Denmark.
Leave the poor woman alone,, she sings a song and seems everyone feels they own her already and tearing her apart. why do people do that, if your bad people look hard for the good points, if your good everyone looks for the flaws, sad fact of life.
- Jacjonjac, london
Enough, please! The poor woman is going to end up with a complex about her looks!
- Sarah Bradshaw, Enfield, Middx
if she wants this, good for her. well.. she certainly looks very different.
maybe she's improved.. but she is not smiling a sweet humble genuine smile anymore.
anyone notice.. the "cosmetically prettier" people get, the more platic, hard and self-absorbed their smile and look become? it's like they're busy comtemplating their look to be able to see the sweetness of life...
- Emerald, NCY
It is me, or does this person bear a marked resemblance to Gordon Brown in drag?
- Ted, London
