Talent show star Susan Boyle gets a £100 look to dye for at her local salon

New look: Susan Boyle shows off her dyed, trimmed hair and plucked eyebrows after her trip to a beauty salon in her home village in Scotland, adding a smart new outfit which only cost her about £60
Sri Carmichael12 April 2012

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."

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