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Modern salon interior at Cuts By Carella, Cairns City, Queensland, AU featuring stylish chairs and mirrors.

Cuts By Carella

Hair Salon

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Francesco creates an inviting atmosphere that transforms a typical salon visit into a delightful experience. Clients rave about the exceptional results of his women's styled cuts and colour treatments, often highlighting how he effortlessly brings their hair from brassy to creamy. With a focus on personalized consultations and a welcoming team, every appointment is not just about hair but also about enjoying a glass of bubbly while feeling truly pampered.

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Francesco Carella | Director in Cairns City | Fresha

Our men’s cutting services are designed to suit every style — whether you prefer a simple, low-maintenance Buzz Cut, a clean and timeless Classic Cut, or the sharp definition of a detailed Fade. Each service is tailored with precision, combining expert clipper work, scissor techniques, and professional finishing to deliver polished results that hold their shape between visits. Whether you're maintaining your signature look or freshening up for a new season, our team ensures every cut is personalised to your natural shape, hair texture, and lifestyle.

Gents Cuts

Clean, simple clipper cut all over. Even length with polished edges and neckline. Fast, low-maintenance style for those who want a sharp finish in just 15 minutes.

Buzz Cut

Traditional men's haircut with scissor and clipper work. Neat, balanced and tailored to your style. Perfect for a clean, timeless look without sharp fades. 30-minute service.

Gent's Classic Cut

Precision fade with clean blending and sharp lines. From skin fades to soft tapers, perfectly detailed for a polished finish. Includes clipper and scissor work. 35-minute service.

Fade

Engineered Volume. Maintained Length.

A precision cut focused on internal layering and weight redistribution to create movement, lift, and balance while preserving your overall length and silhouette. This service refines how the hair sits and moves rather than redefining the haircut itself. Includes consultation and a professional finish to verify the shape dry.

Service Scope: internal layering and volume work within your existing shape identity. This service does not include a change to your overall haircut silhouette or a significant length reduction. If you’re changing your shape identity or removing substantial length, book Complete Restyle so the work fits the time.

Ideal For: clients who like their current haircut but want more movement, lightness, or volume through the mids and ends.

Layered Volume Cut

Professional blow wave designed to wear properly in Cairns conditions. Prevents the frizz and shape-drop common in humidity. Includes a finish treatment selected at the basin and correct product stacking (Prep → Heat → Finish) so the result holds outside the salon.

Includes:

Signature Basin Service

Finish treatment(s)

Professional round brush blow wave and or tonged finish seal where appropriate

Boundaries:

For defined curls or event styling, book Curls or Up Styles

Performance Blow Wave

Blow Wave - Short

Blow Wave - Medium

Blow Wave - Long

Extra Long

This service combines targeted foil maintenance with full colour work to maintain both brightness and depth. Quarter Head Foils refresh lightness through key visibility zones such as the crown or hairline, while full colour maintains a consistent base through the lengths.

Lightening and colouring are managed to support porosity control and hair integrity, keeping the result predictable as it settles in Cairns conditions. A custom toner refines tone and balance, and a professional Styled Cut completes the service so shape, colour, and finish are assessed together.

Ideal for clients maintaining existing blonde while also refreshing overall depth between larger foil appointments.

Bond Protection Treatment

Full

Semi / Toner

Bond Restoration Treatment

Hydration Treatment

Blonde Gloss Treatment

Women's Styled Cut

Quarter Head Foils, Full Colour, Toner & Styled Cut

Controlled blonde brightness through the top, sides, hairline, and visible surface areas, with full colour included to refresh the overall base before tone refinement.

This service is ideal when you want visible blonde dimension where it is seen most, while also needing your full colour refreshed for a more complete, balanced result.

Your foils are placed to create controlled brightness, then your full colour is applied to support base consistency from roots through ends. A custom toner refines the blonde tone and balance before a precision styled cut and blow wave finish complete the result.

Blonde support is included throughout the service to help protect hair integrity and outcome quality.

This service provides limited back coverage. For more blonde presence through the back and underneath, book Three Quarter Head Foils, Full Colour, Toner & Styled Cut.

Half Head Foils, Full Colour, Toner & Styled Cut 

Refined Shape. Everyday Wearability.

A tailored maintenance cut for clients refining an existing shape. Includes consultation, shampoo + conditioning, and a professional blow wave finish for a clean, wearable result.

Service Scope: perimeter refinement up to 3cm with minor adjustments only. Changes to internal structure, weight reallocation, or removing more than 3cm require booking a Layered Volume Cut or Complete Restyle so time and outcome are protected.

Ideal For: clients maintaining an existing haircut who want polish, balance, and longevity without changing their overall shape.

Francesco Carella

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Services

Gents Cuts

15 min - 35 min

Layered Volume Cut

1 hr

Performance Blow Wave

45 min - 1 hr, 15 min

Quarter Head Foils, Full Colour, Toner & Styled Cut

4 hr • 8 services

Half Head Foils, Full Colour, Toner & Styled Cut

4 hr, 10 min • 8 services

Women's Styled Cut

45 min

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