The Best Hair Salons in Melbourne That Will Have You Looking & Feeling Your Best
A cut above the rest, these are the best hair salons in Melbourne to upgrade your look!
Whether you’re looking for a classic style or something a little more cutting edge, Melbourne’s award-winning salons are experts in the world of trimming, dyeing and blow-drying. We know how hard it is to find a good hairdresser, so when you do, it’s best to hold onto them. Lucky for you, we’ve gone and found the best hair salons in Melbourne, guaranteed to give you a flawless chop every time.
Rare Earth Hair
Using strictly premium products including Aveda, Olaplex and O&M, your locks will be given the most luxurious pampering available. Rare Earth’s contemporary studio is the place to head for any colour your heart desires, with no foil, highlight, balayage or ombre treatment too tricky to achieve. Rare Earth also strives to maintain an environmental conscience by carrying products that are low chemical, eco-friendly and sulphate free. An impressive editorial portfolio underlines the salon’s ongoing success in the industry.
184 Commercial Road, Prahran
BODA Hair Boutique
For the pinnacle in luxury hair treatments, these award-winning salons are all but unrivalled. Operating since 2016, owner Martha Kourtidou was driven by a need to make women feel empowered and confident, starting with the crown – her hair. With locations popping up all over the city, the BODA team has quite the reputation for dramatic colour transformations, sleek fit outs, and faultless attention to detail.
Multiple locations across Melbourne
Edwards & Co
If you like your salons of the high-octane glamour, celebrity endorsed variety, then Edwards & Co is for you. Run by Jaye Edwards, one of Sydney’s most revered stylists, this chic hairdressers is considered the fashion set’s go-to for all things cut and colour. Housed in an exposed brick warehouse hidden down a city laneway – this is the place to see and be seen.
Suite C - Rear, 230 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Organika
The ultimate feel-good fix, the team at Organika stay away from anything that contains ammonia, sulphates, parabens or other nasty toxic chemicals. Using the latest in natural and organic products, they’re leaders in current trends on style and colour without adverse health effects. Proof that beauty can be green.
161 Elgin Street, Carlton, 140a Ormond Road, Elwood
Telleish
Widely known as Melbourne’s blonde specialists (from ash to golden – they’re your go-to), the expert team at Telleish have worked their magic at fashion weeks and in magazines around the globe. Located in a sleek, plant-filled salon by the sea in Port Melbourne, they’re proudly sustainable and recycle all materials used – so you can fix your hair and ease your conscience.
89 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne
Meddlers by Duncan McKenzie
A luxurious salon set in the leafy streets of South Yarra, meddlers by Duncan McKenzie has been serving up chic looks for well-to-do locals for over 30 years. With its bright blue walls, bubble-gum pink chairs and art-splashed walls – having your hair done at meddlers is an experience you’re not likely to forget any time soon.
273a Domain Road, South Yarra
Xiang Hair
First opening its doors as a small suburban salon back in 1989, Xiang Hair has since graduated to the centre of the city and quickly achieved status as one of Melbourne’s best. The current Australian Hairdresser of the Year, here the stylists pride themselves in providing a salon experience that will make you feel as good as you look.
401 Swanston Street, Melbourne City
4/1096 Mt Alexander Road, Essendon
46 Main Street, Greensborough
The Do Salon
An eco-salon that places equal importance on style and protecting the world around us, The Do Salon reflects the forward thinking ethos of its St Kilda home. With an emphasis on innovative looks, they use products from the world’s first professional organic hair colour, care and styling line that comes complete with cruelty free, biodynamic and fair trade ingredients.
171a Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
BIBA Fitzroy
Established in 1975, the BIBA name is nothing short of iconic. With fourteen award-winning salons throughout Melbourne, the Fitzroy outpost is sleek, trend-driven and nothing short of world-class. Home to a team of stylists who have taken home virtually every accolade in the country (and beyond), this is the place to try something new. You’re in safe hands – if you dare.
237 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ellie and Frank
Combining hair trends from South Korea and Australia, the talented team at Ellie and Frank really take the time to make your hair dreams come true. The beautifully-styled, leafy green studio is spacious and stylish, so you can sit back and relax as Ellie takes care of your new do. From expert (and affordable) hair cuts to hair perming, balayage, foils and permanent straightening, you'll find your chosen treatment and leave feeling classy and chic.
344 Smith Street, Collingwood
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