About

WE ARE MOVING TO ANNERLEY!
After nearly four years in our Taringa location, we have decided to relocate to a larger and quieter space in Annerley. “But Emily, how is it BOTH larger AND quieter?” Well…
When I envisioned my salon space back in 2020, I was looking for a small space just for me. Not realising my neuro-divergencies at the time, I realised it wasn’t actually that I needed to work by myself. I just needed to work in a space that suited my sensory sensitivities.

Welcoming Sarah (otherwise known as Sar-bear and my future wife) at the end of 2020 truely opened my eyes to how much I loved sharing the space with like-minded weird people. Enter Maya at the end of 2021, Mia at the beginning of 2022 and Derek in mid-2023 – you can imagine my space that was fitted out for just me…has become a little cramped.

Not to waffle-on too much (proceeds to waffle-on…), as much as we still reserve our space for our one-on-one appointments and try as best as we can to maintain a quiet, safe-space…it’s becoming more and more tricky.

Our new space in Fanny Street (whee-hee insert giggle here) boasts five private car parking spaces right out front of the property; two very large styling rooms (actually nearly the size of our current space in total each); a small basin room; one large chill balcony out the back; a waiting terrace at the front; a ungendered bathroom upstairs (WOOHOOO no more adventures downstairs to the stanky building toilets); reception area AND potentially a small shop space (to be confirmed).

We will also be walking distance to Fairfield Train Station, Annerley Antique Centre and the Junction Pub.

Sarah, Maya, Mia, Derek and myself are all SO excited to welcome you into our new space. Our Taringa location will be open until Tuesday the 30th of April and we will be taking clients there up until this date. Our official opening date in Annerley will be Saturday 4th of May, however we will be taking limited clients from the 2nd of May.

See ya’ll at Fanny Street!
xx Em

BARBER SERVICES

We are so excited to announce our new team member, Derek (he/him)

Derek enters the band as an experienced barber, keen to add an extra layer of sweet, sweet sound to our already eclectic bunch of misfits. We are super stoked to be able to offer gender inclusive barber services – including shaves & beard things – at the parlour. Derek’s services are of course – gender inclusive! Book with Derek here.

A WORD FROM THE OWNER
(whoever wrote that clearly doesn’t understand my ability to prattle on about stuff…)


When I was staring at my laptop trying to create a blurb for this section of the website – the only thing I ruminated on was the feedback we receive constantly from the wonderful people who visit the parlour to get their hair done.

THEY LOVE OUR ONE-ON-ONE SERVICES

After over a decade working for busy, high-end salons I realised that the thing I most value as a hairdresser is having a safe, inclusive and relaxing space to work in.

I tell you, in the past working 38hrs+ a week on your feet while taking in 10+ clients per day (sometimes more); jumping from Sandra’s foils to Lucille’s global colour, back to Sandra’s haircut and then squeezing in a rando eyebrow wax in-between; all the while missing an opportunity to do basic life requirements like eat food and drink water…it’s stressful. Meanwhile poor Lucille is left waiting for 45mins for me to return because there was some hiccup with my first client’s payment and I needed to quickly pee.

This idea of “busy” salon stereotypes had me perplexed, why does it have to be like this? The answer to myself was, it doesn’t.”

I envisioned a work space where I could take time to sit down and chat to you, thoroughly, about your hair goals and woes; the time to change what you originally booked in for on the fly, because we’ve come up with this new brilliant hair idea; being able to stay with you throughout the entire process from colouring to delivering a mind-blowing head massage and to finally educating you on how to style and look after your locks at home.

At Dolls & Sailors, we strive to make our one-on-one service comfortable for you and us. We want you to be able to relax knowing that your stylist has taken their time to be 100% on the same page about how you want to leave and to be able to provide you with a space for you to enjoy peace, calm and quiet (inappropriate jokes and maybe some spontaneous singing).

LGBTQIA+ & NEURO-DIVERGENT FOLKS

As a queer, neurodivergent woman – I value making the parlour an inclusive space for all humans. This is a safe, inclusive space.

(unless you don’t have hair….that may be an issue).

GENDER INCLUSIVE PRICING

Because hair has no gender – duh.
You’re paying for our time.



Tell us your pro-nouns & how you’d like your hair to be did.

Also….like can you bring your dogs please?