Beauty & Spas in Fruitville

Suna of Suna Salon & Spa has culled beauty secrets from all over the world, holding aesthetic licenses in Japan, Italy, France, Germany, and the United States. She voyaged from the shores of Istanbul to the wild, unexfoliated beaches of America 25 years ago to establish her first salon. Over the decades, Suna has gathered around her an elite team of beauticians with a range of expertise and an arsenal of quality products.

Her staff brightens nail treatments with Shellac and OPI polishes and deepens massages with hot stones. Stylists keep cranial shrubs in tiptop shape with Schwarzkopf Igora hair color and conditioning products from Moroccanoil. Suna herself specializes in threading, the ancient Middle Eastern art of removing hair with nothing but a strand of cotton and an elaborate system of cantilevers.

Even with his 13 years of salon experience and training from Vidal Sassoon, Aveda, and Paul Mitchell, it still came as a surprise to Michael S. Krempel, owner and lead stylist at Michael Urban Hair Studio, to get a call from MTV. The producers of MTV's Made had selected a local teen to appear in the show and chose Krempel's salon to give him a makeover to build his confidence as a hip-hop dancer.

In addition to boosting self-esteem on television, Krempel and his staff of stylists give clients confidence-inspiring looks with cuts, colors, and Marcia Teixeira Brazilian keratin hair treatments. Patrons slip into cherry-red styling chairs amid shelves brimming with products from Keune, Mixture, and Kevin Murphy as well as Featherlock feather hair extensions. Those notes of red carry over onto artwork flecked with crimson and cabinets the color of a rebellious bull’s ear piercing.

For Amanda Gionet, the love for hairstyling runs the family. As a third-generation mane tamer, Amanda has expanded on her family's profession by leading a team of like-minded industry artists, each possessing unique beauty specialties. Her stylists pamper patrons from head to toe—or more accurately, from freshly cropped locks to perfectly polished piggies—with the many services on A. Salon's menu. Services range from color and texturizing treatments to quick facial waxing sessions that make it easier to adhere novelty mustaches to one's face.

A licensed cosmetologist and licensed tattoo artist, Nancy Olevson draws on both her specialties in her work as a permanent makeup artist. Her natural attention to detail helps her to apply precise strokes of pigment to her clients' eyes, brows, and lips, where they'll stay put through exercising, swimming, showering, and sleeping. Beyond catering to on-the-go women looking to streamline their morning makeup routines, Nancy often extends her camouflaging abilities to help those with scars, men and women with alopecia, and spiders, who typically spend several hours a day lining each of their eight eyes.

As a Paul Mitchell Focus Salon and an independent distributor of It Works Contouring Wraps, Studio 501 carries all Paul Mitchell brands and professional styling tools, and makes full use of them during styling sessions for men, women, and kids. Professional blowouts, special occasion styles, and Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Wild Ginger Keratin treatments leave hair looking as beautiful as Snow White's fairest mirror.

The staff at Wigs and Hair Extensions of Sarasota collectively draws from years of experience to restore hair and confidence levels simultaneously. They stock designer wigs in "all colors, lengths, and styles," with human-hair components that convincingly mimic natural locks and can even be piled into updos. When applying human-hair extensions, they favor meticulous strand-by-strand methods—including fusion, weaving, and linking—over glues and novelty-size thumbtacks. With these services, they help to dispel the worries of women's hair loss and alopecia at all of its stages.