About

ABOUT OUR

HAIR SALON

Since 2009, Sarie has had a passion for Toowoomba hairdressing and has work hard to perfect her craft. For the past fifteen years Sarie worked out of her home, until July 2020 when she created Ginger Cartel and finally got a real space for her hairdressing.

Sarie is excited to bring you an experience that not every Toowoomba hairdresser can. She has a holistic view when it comes to your hair. With over 21 years practice in the field, getting to know clients on a personal level is Sarie's unique offering. Every appointment has a consult, where a connection is made before scissors or colour are touched.

Looking to the future Sarie wants to “mob” the business and have multiple locations - watch this space!

Walking into Ginger Cartel, Sarie has styled her Toowoomba hair salon with inspirations from the same era as the name.

The space located at Central Plaza, on the corner of Ruthven and Long streets was a different hair salon prior to Ginger Cartel moving in. What used to be a plain white city-scape styled Toowoomba hair salon is now a 30s era, speakeasy themed salon and an ode to the name itself.

You'll be offered a good of Cup of Joe or Noodle Juice on your arrival (coffee or tea) and get to relax in good hands as your transformation takes place. For an appointment with any of Ginger Cartel’s talented Toowoomba hairdressers, appointments are essential on Mondays whilst booking and walk-ins are available Tuesday through Saturday.

"Behind the name of Ginger Cartel"

Credit to Newshawk (Reporter): KATHERINE SAMPSON

Style Magazine December 2020.

When you hear ‘Cartel’ you might not immediately think “HAIR,” instead your mind goes to illegal syndicates from the early 1900s; and you’re not totally wrong.

Sarie’s great uncle on her mother’s mother’s side was the infamous Joe Taylor. Taylor was the first to open a nightclub in Sydney’s Kings Cross in the 1940s and at the time these were the home of the underworld, and rightly so as Taylor ran a gambling cartel out of these.

Of course, Sarie has nothing to do with her late relatives’ business, however it was a huge part of her families history as another relative on her mother’s-father’s side was also in the crowd, Francis Farrell.

Bumper Farrell, as he was commonly known, was both an Australian representative in the forties for rugby league, but also a feared and revered detective in the New South Wales police force stationed in Sydney’s inner suburbs.

Without knowing their families would eventually cross paths, a crime boss and his opposition police detective became the inspiration for ‘Ginger Cartel’s’ naming.

As for the red ‘A’ in the logo, that’s thanks to Joe Taylor’s superstition that the colour was good luck. “My uncle believed red was for good luck. His clubs and restaurants all had an element of red or he wore a red when he was betting on racing and boxing,” Sarie says.

When it comes to the ‘Ginger’ half of the name you might think it gets it thanks to Sarie’s brightly coloured red (ginger) hair, she’s in fact naturally a dark blonde and has been opting for the vibrant alternative since she was eighteen.

It’s not totally unrelated, having such vivacious locks definitely helped when it came to choose the name. Sarie also owns and runs a local dance studio, so dance is a large part of her life.

Now you know this, the ‘Ginger’ half of the salon’s title was inspired by Sarie’s love of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who were Broadway dance partners between the 1930s and 40s.