NSW still controls who can cut hair for money. Under the Hairdressers Act 2003 (opens in a new tab), which NSW Fair Trading administers, unqualified people can't act as hairdressers for a fee, gain or reward. The usual qualification is a Certificate III in Hairdressing from a registered training organisation; training approved as equivalent, or having held a licence under Part 6 of the old Shops and Industries Act 1962, also counts. Apprentices don't need the qualification, but a qualified person should directly control and supervise their work, and a Fair Trading officer can ask a hairdresser to show their qualifications. A website doesn't have to recite any of this. It shapes the team page instead: clients can see who is qualified, at what level, and who is an apprentice working under supervision.
Hair services on their own aren't skin penetration, but waxing is. NSW Health's hygiene fact sheet for hairdressers and barbers (opens in a new tab) says a hair business that offers waxing must register with its local council as a skin penetration business, under the Public Health Regulation 2022. After that, Sydney's councils go their own ways. The City of Sydney's registration page (opens in a new tab) covers waxing, electrolysis, piercing, cuticle cutting and similar procedures, and leaves out barbering and hairdressing where no skin is penetrated. The City of Ryde asks every hairdressing salon, beauty salon and skin penetration business to register. Campbelltown registers hairdressers without charging the fee and inspects them once a year. So what a salon has to lodge depends on both the services it offers and the council it sits in, and your own council's page is the one to check before you add waxing to the menu.
Sydney's clients bring many languages to the chair. At the 2021 Census, 57% of people in Greater Sydney spoke only English at home and 37% used another language (the rest didn't say). The most common were Mandarin (5.0%), Arabic (4.2%), Cantonese (2.8%) and Vietnamese (2.2%). For a salon, that's a practical point rather than a slogan. If your stylists speak other languages, their profiles should say which ones. If you'd like a short section of the site in another language, you supply the translated words, checked by a fluent speaker, and we lay them out with the Book now button kept in reach.
Part of the inner south-west has new directions to give. Sydney Metro set 30 October 2026 (opens in a new tab) as the start of Southwest Metro services at Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, Campsie, Belmore, Lakemba, Wiley Park, Punchbowl and Bankstown, replacing the old T3 Bankstown Line. A salon near any of them should name the station and the exit in its directions. Everywhere else, the details that matter are the same: which stop or station, how long the walk is, and where someone can park for a three-hour colour without collecting a fine.
Everything runs by phone and email from our studio in Adelaide, which suits an owner who is on the floor all day. Send us the price list, your booking link and photos of the team and their work; the draft comes back as a link you can check between clients, and payment comes only after you approve it.