Hair Salon and Barber Business Cards

What a hair salon business card should show

Hair salon business cards often get kept only if the next step is already on them. A salon card may need to introduce one stylist inside a team, while barber business cards usually work for the shopfront itself.

• Salon name with the stylist's name and title, such as senior stylist, creative director or owner.
• Phone number and a booking link or QR code, because most clients decide in the chair or at the basin.
• Instagram handle where the portfolio and fresh colour work live.
• Suburb and opening hours, with a note for mobile hairdressers about the area you cover.
• Services in plain words: cut, colour, balayage, barbering, kids' cuts, extensions or smoothing.
• A rebooking or loyalty line, such as "your next blow-dry is already in the diary".

Qualifications and claims on hair salon business cards

In every Australian state, there is no occupational licence for hairdressers or barbers. That means the card cannot honestly say licensed hairdresser or licensed barber and never carries a licence number. A stylist with the trade qualification can write qualified hairdresser, supported by Certificate III in Hairdressing.

Registration is a separate matter. In Victoria, hairdressing premises register with the local council under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, and a mobile hairdresser registers the principal place of business. Each council issues its own certificate number, and no rule tells you to print that number on a card. The Northern Territory registers hairdressing businesses with the NT Government. New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia have no hairdressing registration, only council planning and signage rules.

Voluntary badges only go on a card if the salon actually holds them, such as Australian Hairdressing Council Salon Select accreditation or Sustainable Salons membership. Under Australian Consumer Law, a card that claims award-winning needs the specific award named, and a card that claims organic needs the product range behind it. For colour clients, a card can carry the request for a skin patch test 48 hours before the first colour appointment.

An ABN is not mandatory on a business card. The ATO calls it a good idea on stationery, and a company's ACN belongs on invoices, receipts, orders and letterhead rather than on your card.

Which card stock suits a salon or barbershop

Every design shows its front and back and comes in several colourways. Most designs in this gallery were built on Standard Business Cards. These print at 90 x 55 mm on 300 GSM Matte, Linen, Cotton or Metallic, or on 450 GSM Artboard with Velvet Laminate. You can print one side or both, and the four 300 GSM stocks come without lamination, keeping the card easy to read under salon lighting.

For a barbershop or a darker salon look, Coloured Paper Business Cards use 270 GSM Black or Navy, 290 GSM Kraft, or 300 GSM Forest Green, Hunter Green, Burgundy, Cream and more. They print in CMYK or white ink, so dark or textured stock still holds the colourway.

When the card needs a stronger first impression, Flat Foil Business Cards give a mirror-bright gold, silver, rose gold, copper or holographic finish that sits level with the card surface on one side.

If a design was built on Standard Business Cards, you can also order that layout on Rounded Corner Business Cards or Recycled Business Cards. A design that depends on foil, spot UV, Scodix, duplex or coloured paper stays on its own card, but many can still be produced as a flat Standard edition, the same front and back printed on Standard Business Cards.

How a ready design becomes your card

Open a ready design and it lands on the product page already tied to its card and print settings, with Recommended selected for the options it was built for. You can change any option. After Add to cart, enter the salon or barbershop details on the Upload Artwork step: names, phone, email, booking handle, and any registration or ABN line the card needs. We arrange the copy into the layout and send a free PDF proof within 1 to 2 business days. Production starts after you approve the proof, and nothing prints before then. A ready design has no setup fee, and if you want another shape or orientation we rework the layout in-house at no charge. Browse other business card designs for other trades.

Matching the rest of your print to the card

Carry the same layout and colourway onto the pieces a client keeps at home. Appointment Cards send every client out with the next booking written, whether the visit was a colour session or a beard trim. Loyalty Cards stamped at the chair or reception make regular cuts and colour appointments feel routine. Our barber print kit covers the wider shop package, from price lists to signage.