Behind the circuit

Thirty-six salons, and how we chose them.

Snip Circuit is a small, deliberate collection of 36 source-checked hair salons in 17 localities in the ACT, NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and WA. The idea is simple: see what a salon says about itself before you sit in the chair and talk colour or cut.

What makes a salon eligible

A salon arrives as a public place record, frequently from Overture Maps, and earns a page only when its own website backs up its name, its suburb and the fact that it cuts hair. Conflicting records are dropped rather than guessed at. Our checks were made in September 2026.

Twelve salons publish a service menu, and you will see those headings on their pages. Sixteen list a phone number on their website, so we show it. A Google rating and review count appears on sixteen pages, taken from each salon's public map listing in September 2026 after the name, place and site were confirmed to match; three of those also show opening hours.

How the list is ordered

By Google review count. Town pages are offered to search engines once three or more salons share a town; the ranked city pages that do are listed below. Every other town page is still live and linked from the locations index.

Outside our lane

Booking platforms, barbershop-only listings and beauty or skin clinics are not included. Prices and stylist credentials stay off the page unless a salon prints them itself.

Requesting a change

Salon closed, renamed or wanting out? Email hello@snipcircuit.com.au and include the page link plus a source showing the change. Each refresh re-checks every removal we have on record. We will not forward bookings or messages to a salon. Data credits live on the data licences page.

How listings are ranked

Ranked by the number of Google reviews: the business with the most reviews comes first, and where two have the same number the higher rating leads. The ratings are Google's figures as held in our data in October 2026, not an assessment by Snip Circuit. Businesses without a Google rating follow the ranked list, alphabetically. The directory page ranks every business Snip Circuit holds, and each city page ranks the businesses in that city. Each city page shows its most-reviewed 100 as cards and the next 200 in a compact ranked list below them, and a city with more continues on numbered pages of 250; the directory page shows its most-reviewed 100 as cards and the rest of the 2,000 most-reviewed in a compact list.

Businesses from public map listings

Snip Circuit also holds 7,000 hair salons and barbers taken from their public map listings, as held in our data in October 2026, ranked alongside the source-checked listings and marked "Public map listing". A business is included only with at least five Google reviews, a primary category that matches this directory, and a location that can be placed from its own address or map coordinates. A business on our removal list is never included. These businesses have not been read against their websites. Each has a profile (7,000 in all) showing its name, suburb, listed type, Google rating with the review count and the city page it is ranked on, with a link to its own website or its Google Maps listing. Where our data holds them, a profile also shows the services the business's own website lists and an ABN matched on the Australian Business Register. Where the public map listing holds them, a profile also shows the business's street address, phone number and opening hours (the street address for businesses that trade from premises), as held in our data.

Ranked city pages offered to search engines: Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Geelong, Gold Coast, Mackay, Maitland, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Traralgon, Sunshine Coast, Canberra, Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong, Hobart, Toowoomba, Ballarat, Townsville, Darwin, Mandurah, Pakenham, Bendigo, Coffs Harbour, Logan, Albury, Ipswich, Bowral, Port Macquarie, Launceston, Hervey Bay, Tweed Heads, Ballina, Bundaberg, Byron Bay, Caboolture, Echuca, Maryborough, Rockhampton, Orange, Wagga Wagga, Yeppoon, Bunbury, Dubbo, Nowra, Shepparton, Busselton, Gawler, Nelson Bay, Taree, Warrnambool, Albany, Bathurst, Burnie, Goulburn, Horsham, Airlie Beach, Broome, Gladstone, Gympie, Tamworth, Wodonga, Forster, Grafton, Griffith, Lismore, Queanbeyan, Armidale, Cessnock, Warragul, Devonport, Karratha, Victor Harbor, Batemans Bay, Benalla, Geraldton, Mareeba, Margaret River, Mudgee, Port Lincoln, Sale, Swan Hill, Wangaratta, Warwick, Ayr, Colac, Mount Gambier, Port Pirie, Castlemaine, Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Yamba, Bowen, Dalby, Emerald, Gatton, Kalgoorlie, Lithgow, Mildura, Mount Isa, Port Douglas, Young, Alice Springs, Cowra, Singleton, Ulladulla and Whyalla.