Hair salon · Melbourne
Best hair salons in Melbourne ranked by Google reviews.
We pulled the top-ranked hair salons in Melbourne from Google’s own
listings. Here’s the leaderboard, what the leaders share in common, and how
a branded biglove.to link helps yours close the gap.
Data refreshed from Google Places.
The 10 leaders here average 4.9 ★ across 7,270 cumulative Google reviews. The top three (Freshhh salon, D&Y Hair Design Collins Street CBD, Le Ciel Hair Salon) account for roughly 30% of that total — a typical signature of how Google review momentum concentrates among the best-known names in Melbourne.
Leaderboard · top 10
Who’s winning the review race in Melbourne.
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Freshhh salon
2 Rankins Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
5.0 ★ · 250 reviews
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D&Y Hair Design Collins Street CBD
Shop L104a, Level 1/260 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
5.0 ★ · 232 reviews
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Le Ciel Hair Salon
259 Queensberry St, Carlton VIC 3053
4.9 ★ · 1,669 reviews
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Hair Hada
53 Peel St, West Melbourne VIC 3003
4.9 ★ · 442 reviews
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Cream Melbourne
Level1/296 Brunswick Street, enter/off Johnston St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
4.9 ★ · 382 reviews
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Aery Salon
on CBD Merigold on Collins, Unit 13/243 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
4.8 ★ · 1,119 reviews
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VIJU SALON
124 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
4.8 ★ · 1,106 reviews
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D&Y Hair Design Bourke Street CBD
146 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
4.8 ★ · 760 reviews
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JISU
Level 6/94 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000
4.7 ★ · 961 reviews
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Rakis on Collins
Pleasance House, Level 2/178 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
4.7 ★ · 349 reviews
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What the leaders share
Patterns from the top of the leaderboard.
Hair salons run on referrals and Google reviews. The leaderboard below shows what asking customers consistently does to a review count over a few years.
- They ask every customer, every visit. Not just the obvious fans. The compounded effect of asking 100% of customers — even shyly, even with friction — beats asking 10% of customers enthusiastically.
- They make the link short enough to say out loud. The hair salons at the top of the Melbourne leaderboard print a memorable URL on receipts, table tents, or cards. Long Google review URLs don’t survive the trip from till to phone.
- They don’t gate. No "rate us 5 stars first" forms. No satisfaction filters that route happy customers one way and frustrated customers another. Google’s 2026 review policy and the FTC’s 2024 Consumer Reviews Rule both prohibit gating, and the leaderboard reflects it — the top Melbourne hair salons are clean.
- They follow up once, never twice. The polite single ask converts. The pushy second ask annoys.
How to climb the Melbourne hair salon leaderboard
Five steps that move the needle in 90 days.
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Claim a memorable review URL.
Pick a slug that customers can read off your receipt.
biglove.to/your-hair-salonbeats the long Google URL on every printed surface. Free preview at biglove.to/check — no signup needed to see your slug + QR. - 02
Print the QR somewhere your customers see it twice.
Receipt and door sticker is the highest-conversion combo. The customer sees the QR when they pay, again when they leave, and again at home if they keep the receipt. Three impressions beats one impression by a wide margin.
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Make the ask part of the script.
Train staff to mention the QR card during natural pauses ("If you enjoyed this, our Google review code is right here on the receipt"). Don’t script a 5-star pitch — that’s gating. Just point at the QR.
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Reply to every review within 48 hours.
Public replies signal an active, accountable hair salon — both to future customers reading the reviews AND to Google’s ranking signals. A short, sincere thanks is enough; engagement matters more than length.
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Track which ask path works.
Pro tier on biglove.to gives you click analytics — country, hour, device, referrer — so you can tell whether the receipt QR or the email signature is actually driving the reviews. Optimize what you can measure.
Common questions
About the Melbourne hair salon leaderboard.
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How are hair salons in Melbourne ranked on this leaderboard?
We pull the top hair salons for Melbourne from Google Places using a "top hair salons in Melbourne" text search biased to the city centroid, keep the top 10 results, then sort by Google star rating (descending) with a tie-break of total review count (descending). Entries without a numeric rating sort last. The full dataset is also published as open data under CC-BY-4.0 at biglove.to/hyperlocal-summary.json.
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How often is this leaderboard updated?
We refresh the underlying Google Places data quarterly. Significant changes in a business's review count or average rating usually appear here within roughly three months. For real-time data, the public Google Maps listing of each business is always the canonical source — the leaderboard is a snapshot, not a live feed.
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What can my hair salon do to climb the Melbourne leaderboard?
Ask every customer for a Google review, not just the obvious fans. Make the link short enough to print on a receipt or say out loud — a branded biglove.to short link works for that. Never ask for "5 stars first" — that's review gating, prohibited by Google's review policy (Help article 9273900) and the FTC Consumer Reviews Rule (16 CFR Part 465, max penalty $53,088). Reply publicly to every review within 48 hours. Track which ask path actually converts. The five-step playbook on this page goes deeper.
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Why isn't a particular hair salon I expected on this list?
This list shows only the top 10 results Google Places returned for "top hair salons in Melbourne" at the time of the scrape. Google's relevance ranking weighs review count, average rating, distance from the city centroid, and a number of private signals — so a well-loved spot with fewer reviews can rank lower than a high-volume one nearby. If a business you'd expect is missing, it usually means it lives in a different Google category, has fewer reviews than the visible top 10, or sits outside Google's city-centroid bias for Melbourne.
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Does this include reviews from Trustpilot, Yelp, or Facebook?
No. The star rating and review count shown here come exclusively from Google reviews — the primary "find a place" signal in Australia. BigLove supports branded short links for Google Reviews and Trustpilot, but this particular leaderboard is Google-only because Google has by far the highest local-business review volume across our target markets (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
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