Lynsey Austin said it was ‘surreal’ to play a major part in 16-year-old Venezuela’s extravagant wedding
Lynsey Austin, from Wrexham, styled Venezuela Fury’s hair for her lavish wedding
A Welsh hairdresser was secretly flown out to style Venezuela Fury’s hair for one of the most high-profile celebrity weddings of the year. Lynsey Austin, owner of Salon LA in Wrexham, was sworn to secrecy after being handpicked to create the 16-year-old influencer’s bridal hairstyle for her marriage to Noah Price.
The extravagant wedding ceremony took place on the Isle of Man, where Venezuela lives with her mother Paris and former heavyweight boxing champion father Tyson Fury.
The boxer even personally chauffeured Lynsey and fellow hairstylist Michael Wright to dinner before driving them back to the airport.
Lynsey, originally from Wrexham and now based in Chester, was flown out on two separate occasions in less than a fortnight — first to meet the family and trial the hairstyle, and then again before dawn on the wedding day itself to ensure Venezuela’s glamorous finger-wave bridal look was perfect.
Lynsey described the experience as “surreal”, with Netflix cameras filming inside the Fury family home.
Venezuela Fury and Noah Price tied the knot on the Isle of Man(Image: Mancpicss66)
Lynsey, who has worked as a hairdresser since the age of 14 and is known professionally as Lynz, was contacted about the opportunity to do the bride’s hair for the big day by Danielle Gregory from Chester-based hair and beauty specialists Doll HQ.
Following a successful trial of the style on a doll at Doll HQ’s salon, Lynsey and fellow hairstylist Michael Wright were flown to the Isle of Man the next day to meet the Fury family and conduct the official bridal trial with Venezuela herself.
“We met Venezuela, Paris, Tyson and all the children,” Lynsey said. “We spent the whole day with the family. Paris took us out for lunch at a local restaurant and Tyson drove us to dinner, picked us up afterwards and dropped us back to the airport.
“He’s just a really nice man. I was honestly mesmerised by the whole experience and kept thinking: ‘What is going on?’ We weren’t allowed to tell anybody we were doing the wedding, so when I came back to the salon I just carried on with normal work and kept everything completely quiet.”
Lynsey returned to the Isle of Man the day before the wedding alongside a team of eight from Doll HQ, including hairstylist Michael and make-up artist Ben Nicholas.
“On the morning of the wedding we arrived at the house at 5.30am,” she said. “I helped everybody into their dresses while Netflix were filming around us – it was just madness.
“But my main priority was Venezuela and making sure her hair was absolutely perfect and didn’t move all day. It took me an hour and a half to complete her hair, which is the longest I’ve ever spent on a bride.
“The next day Venezuela posted on her Instagram story saying how much she loved her hair, which meant so much to me. She is such a lovely young girl, absolutely beautiful inside and out, and she has such a bright future ahead of her because everybody absolutely adores her.
“I’m absolutely thrilled that the whole experience is going to be featured on the next series of At Home With The Furys on Netflix. To know people will get to see behind the scenes of such an incredible few days is amazing – it still doesn’t feel real.”
Lynsey Austin of Salon LA with Anthony Lewis of Coxey’s
The exposure from the huge wedding sent Lynsey’s social media numbers skyrocketing with more than 5.8 million views on her personal Instagram page @lynz_loves and a further 2.4 million views on the Salon LA page @lahair07.
Lynsey said: “It was an amazing experience from start to finish. From the minute I got the phone call, to being flown out there, doing the hair trial and then being part of the wedding day itself – it was incredible.
“Our Instagram pages hit around 8.2 million views combined. It was absolutely crazy. You just think: ‘Wow, this is insane, so many people are seeing this'”‘
She said the experience has already generated a significant surge in enquiries and promising plans for the future. “Me and Dan from Doll HQ are now setting up a business together specialising in hair and make-up for luxury weddings, major events and traveller weddings,” she said.
“We’ve had so many enquiries since the wedding and everything has just gone crazy in the best possible way.”
