Ringwood's eastern corner
Find Cropped at 95 Loughnan Road — a timber-framed shopfront in a leafy suburban strip in Melbourne's east, beside the old milk bar and pizza shop. The black awning plaque and faux-ivy green hedge make it unmistakable from the street.
Inside, the room opens up in a way the street frontage doesn't quite hint at: exposed beams, Edison-bulb chandeliers, big salon mirrors, and product shelving that lines the walls. More wine-bar warm than clinical. The kind of room where a two-hour colour feels right.
On-street parking is available on Loughnan Road.
National recognition
Winner 2019 National Colour Competition — Colourist of the Year
Cropped entered — and won — the 2019 National Colour Competition's Colourist of the Year category. That banner is mounted under the entrance awning. It's not a line in a bio; it's a fact on the building.
A crew of specialists
Cropped's own words for it: "an amazing crew of blonde specialists, updo specialists, cutting specialists." Not a one-stylist shop, not a franchise template — a team of people who have built specific depth in the things Melbourne clients actually book for.
There are no names on the booking page. What the ~1,395 Google reviews and the 3,840 Instagram followers are tracking is the work, not a single individual. That consistency across a whole crew is the harder thing to build, and it's what the reviews reflect.
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The crew
The Cropped team — photographed here in full Halloween spirit inside the salon. A real, present crew with a sense of humour and a strong body of work behind them.
The salon runs Tuesday through Saturday. Book online 24/7 to secure your time with the crew.
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See the work as it happens
3,840 followers tracking every balayage, copper transformation and occasion updo in real time. Follow the Cropped crew on Instagram.
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