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GLOW List · Melbourne Hair

Melbourne hair, edited.

Twelve rooms across the city, Joey Scandizzo on Collins, Edwards & Co. on Brunswick Street, Wieselmann's senior bench on Toorak Road, Biba's twelve-room group, the Chapel Street and Fitzroy precincts. The salons our editors actually book themselves into.

By GLOW Editorial Team · Updated 2 June 2026

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Edited by GLOW Editorial Team · Visits made across 2025–2026 · No paid placements

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By suburb, in editor's order.

Melbourne's hair scene maps to four working precincts: the Fitzroy inner-east (editorial, slow), the South Yarra/Toorak corridor (senior, blonde-led), the CBD heritage rooms (Collins Street, Bourke Street), and the multi-location group salons that anchor everything in between. Here's the shape of it.

Verdict For the best hair salon in Melbourne, Joey Scandizzo Salon (Collins Street, GLOW Score 9.4) leads on the cut. For colour, Rokk Ebony (Chapel Street, 9.3) and Edwards & Co. Fitzroy (9.2). For long-game blonde, Wieselmann on Toorak Road (9.1), fifty-plus years on the same block.

Inner east, Fitzroy & Brunswick Street

3 salons

The editorial precinct. Edwards & Co. set the tone on Brunswick Street; Cream and Donna Sheridan run quieter, slower rooms a few blocks apart. If you want the photograph-the-next-morning finish without the South Yarra surcharge, this is the strip.

South Yarra & Toorak Road

2 salons + chain locations

Senior benches, long histories, blondes that don't pull brassy. Wieselmann has held the same Toorak Road address since 1974. Rokk Ebony has held Chapel Street for thirty-plus years on AHFA pedigree. Biba and TONI&GUY both anchor South Yarra rooms inside their multi-location groups.

CBD, Collins Street, Bourke Street

3 salons

Heritage hair, Kennon-designed mirrors, awards walls. Joey Scandizzo Salon on Collins is the city's top-scoring chair; Rakis on Collins runs the longest CBD continuity (since 1983). Saint Louie does the rock-and-roll cut from a tighter CBD room.

Multi-location, the group salons

4 groups

Biba (twelve Melbourne rooms, since 1977), Oscar Oscar (Chadstone plus the national chain, since 1989), BODA (four Melbourne rooms, colour and extensions), TONI&GUY (four Melbourne rooms, global education). The group bench is more consistent than people give it credit for, book a senior stylist by name, not the salon.

GLOW List · Melbourne

Twelve salons, ranked.

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9.3 Rokk Ebony Chapel Street, flagship wash station with KEVIN.MURPHY product wall

rokk ebony

Chapel Street · South Yarra

Pedigree without preciousness. AHFA history, no airs.

Best for Signature colour · Editorial cut · AHFA pedigree

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$$$$
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9.3
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9.0 Biba Salons, twelve Melbourne rooms

Biba Salons

Multi-location · 12 Melbourne rooms

Twelve Melbourne rooms. One colour bench. Since 1977.

Best for Colour · Cut · Bridal

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$$$
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9.0
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Field note · Melbourne

On Melbourne hair, briefly.

Melbourne has a particular relationship with colour. Joey Scandizzo and Edwards & Co. lead the editorial end, the photograph-the-next-morning finish, the tonal colour that doesn't pull warm under the salon light then turn brassy in a kitchen. Biba and TONI&GUY anchor the precincts: twelve Biba rooms across the city, four TONI&GUY rooms with global education running through the senior bench. The group salons are more consistent than the city's editorial class often gives them credit for. Book a senior stylist by name, not the postcode.

Wieselmann has been doing the same Toorak Road haircut since 1974 and shows no sign of stopping. Rakis on Collins has held the same CBD address since 1983 with a hundred-plus industry awards on the wall. Cream and Donna Sheridan have built quieter Fitzroy benches that take time, charge fairly, and finish what they start. The longevity isn't decoration, it's the reason the chair holds.

What gets a Melbourne salon onto this list: colour discipline that doesn't drift across stylists, a cut that survives a wash, a finish you could photograph the morning after without re-styling. What doesn't: a viral reel, a press kit, a long client list that nobody verified. The shortlist is opinionated. It's the rooms an editor would send a friend to.

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