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SalonAfrica.
Salon Africa is at 20-20A Paisley Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Paisley Street African hair: braids, weaves and haircare that a Barkly colour salon will not do. Book by phone on (03) 9396 0006. This is not Afriqoz at 154 Barkly, not Medra-Genet at 117 Nicholson, not Roha at 95, and not African Haircare at 208. After dark, leave via Barkly or Hopkins rather than lingering on Paisley. Confirm hours on the door. Last checked 2026-09-17.
What people get wrong
Paisley, not Barkly. Book by phone. Walk Barkly after dark rather than lingering on Paisley. Last checked 2026-09-17. Hours change. Trust the official site or the door on the day you go.
What is Salon Africa known for?
Salon Africa is the Paisley braid and weave desk next to the African grocers and the library. Protective styles, weaves and haircare for African households, and for anyone else who books the chair. Mainstream Barkly salons do not do this work. That is why the door exists.
Bright Merkato is on the same street for spices. Hair is this shop. Do not treat the grocer as a salon and do not treat this salon as a grocer.
Bookwell still lists braids and hair styling here with phone bookings only. There is no official site in this directory. The number on the glass is the booking system.
How do you book, and what do you bring?
Call (03) 9396 0006. Walk-ins are luck, not a six-hour braid promise. Bring extra hair if the style needs a pack, a photo of the parting and length, snacks if you sit all afternoon, and payment the desk takes.
Say if you are tender-headed before the first section. Kids need their own slot. This is not a 30-minute fade. Kultured on French Street is the walk-in barber if that is the job.
You do not bring settlement paperwork. Dahabshiil and Kaah are on Nicholson. This chair is hair.
Hours and which door
Quoted hours: confirm salon hours, phone bookings. Call before you treat a maps widget as live. Public holidays override the pattern. Last checked 2026-09-17.
20-20A Paisley is the number. Afriqoz is 154 Barkly. Nicholson has three more African hair desks at 95, 117 and 208. Name the street when you book so you do not sit in the wrong room.
How do you get to Salon Africa?
Footscray station, then Paisley toward the library. African grocers and Salon Africa share this block. Paisley can feel exposed after dark. Finish the appointment and walk Barkly or Hopkins home.
Do not park in the Albert Street plaza thinking this is a mall shop. Street-level Paisley. Irving deck is for the market, not this chair.
What do people mix up about Salon Africa?
They type "African hair Footscray" and walk Nicholson. Nicholson is Roha, Medra-Genet and African Haircare. Paisley is this door. Barkly is Afriqoz. French Street is Kultured, a barber.
They also skip the phone booking and expect a same-day goddess braid. Protective styles run hours. Call first.
Hours change. Trust the door on the day you go.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Salon Africa?
- 20-20A Paisley Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station. Paisley, not Barkly and not Nicholson.
- What are Salon Africa hours?
- Confirm by phone on (03) 9396 0006. Phone bookings. Last checked 2026-09-17. Hours change on holidays.
- How do I get to Salon Africa from the station?
- Walk Paisley to the library block. After dark, leave via Barkly or Hopkins. This is not a plaza shop.
- What should I bring to Salon Africa?
- Extra hair if you were told to, a photo of the style, time for a long install, and the booking name. Call (03) 9396 0006. This is a braid chair.
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