Call today! 813.949.3300
Call today! 813.949.3300
Nu Image Medspa is home to a specialized hair salon in Lutz, FL at 3939 Cheval Blvd (off N Dale Mabry Hwy near Cheval). It’s staffed by a master stylist and colorist with decades of experience, holds a 4.7-star reputation, and covers the full menu: haircuts, color, balayage, highlights, keratin, deep conditioning and color correction.
What sets it apart: It’s the rare salon that lives inside a medical spa — clinically clean, appointment- and consultation-based, with your hair, skin and Botox® care under one roof. Prices are published below, from $35. Serving Lutz, Cheval, Carrollwood, Northdale, Odessa, Land O’ Lakes and Wesley Chapel. Call 813.949.3300.
Lutz is a tough place to keep hair looking good, and most people learn it the hard way. We sit in the Tampa Bay sun belt, ringed by lakes and backyard pools, on famously hard tap water, in a climate where you’re outdoors year round. That combination does specific, predictable things to hair — and a hair salon in Lutz has to be built to fight them, not just hand you a generic cut. Whether you’re driving in from the lakefront streets of Land O’ Lakes, the golf communities around Cheval, Northdale and Carrollwood, the newer neighborhoods rising across Wesley Chapel, or the Starkey Ranch side of Odessa, you all share the same adversary — which is why people across North Tampa make the short drive to a specialist instead of settling for the nearest chain.
Relentless UV fades and oxidizes color warmer week after week. Humidity swells the cuticle and undoes a smooth finish by lunch. Pool chlorine and the minerals in hard water bind to the shaft, pulling blondes brassy or green and leaving everyone’s hair dull and dry. None of that is hypothetical here — it’s the everyday reality a Lutz stylist has to formulate and cut around, choosing color that resists fade and brass and building repair into the plan.
The chain model is the opposite of what this market needs. You walk in, you get whoever is open, there’s no real consultation, and the next time you go you start over with a stranger who doesn’t know your hair, your history or your formula. Those teams are trained to move chairs quickly — not to correct a botched color, paint a balayage, or nurse bleached hair back to health — and when something goes wrong, there’s no one who owns the result. For a quick trim that may be fine. For color in a climate this hard on it, it’s how people end up in our chair asking us to fix it.
A specialized salon is appointment- and consultation-first, so the same master stylist gets to know your hair and keeps your exact formula on file year over year. You get colorists who live in balayage, foils, keratin and correction, bond protection and repair built into the work, and one team that’s accountable for how you walk out. And because this salon sits inside a medical spa, it’s held to a clinical standard of clean — with your hair, skin and Botox® care all in one trusted place.
One specialized team for every part of your hair — cut, color and care. Explore each service:
Women’s, men’s & kids’ cuts engineered for Florida humidity and fade.
View Haircuts → · $65 / $35 / $35
The gap between a specialist and a chain chair lives in the details — the cut, the technique, the finish.
No hidden pricing. Every service is a starting point, confirmed at your consultation.
| Color Retouch (Roots Only) | $65+ |
|---|---|
| Men’s Color | $50+ |
| Full Foil | $150+ |
| Partial Foil | $100+ |
| Balayage | $160+ |
| Glaze / Toner | $30+ |
| Keratin | $275+ |
| Corrective Color | Consultation |
Starting prices vary with hair length, density and desired result — your stylist confirms your quote before any service begins. Corrective color is priced upon consultation. Ask about monthly specials and flexible payment plans.
A specialized salon beats a chain because of who’s holding the shears and the color brush. Our chairs are run by a board-licensed master stylist and colorist with decades of experience — a New York hair-show veteran who keeps up ongoing classes and certifications, with a loyal following clients build over years. And it all sits inside Nu Image, a Lutz medical spa trusted for 20+ years with a 4.7-star reputation, so your hair, skin and Botox® care live under one clean, medically supervised roof.
Master Stylist · Licensed Board of Cosmetology · Decades of Experience · NYC Hair Show Veteran
Karen is a master stylist with years of experience in color, highlighting and cutting. Her expertise includes decades of hair shows in NYC, seminars and in-house training on the latest techniques, plus a specialty in dry hair cutting.
She believes a vibrant, ever-changing hair journey begins with the all-important consultation — the hallmark of her success. Her loyal clients and teammates love her sunny, upbeat personality.
The gap isn’t snobbery — it’s how the two models are built. One is designed around your hair and a stylist who knows it; the other is designed around moving chairs. In a climate this hard on color, that difference shows up fast.
| Specialized Salon | Big-Box / Walk-In Chain | |
|---|---|---|
| Booking | Appointment, consultation-first | Walk-in, no real consult |
| Your stylist | A master who knows your hair & formula | Whoever’s open; rotates |
| Color & balayage | Specialists & correction | Basic; limited color |
| Hair health | Bond protection & repair built in | Volume-first |
| Accountability | One team owns the result | No continuity |
| Setting | Inside a medical spa | High-volume storefront |
We match you with the right master stylist and talk through your hair, history and goals before anything starts.
You get a plan and a quote up front — cut, color, repair or all three — built for your hair and the Florida climate.
Your stylist delivers it in a clean, medically supervised setting, with bond protection and care built in.
Your formula and notes are kept, so every visit picks up where the last left off — no starting over.
The salon is centrally located on Cheval Blvd, an easy drive from across North Tampa — from Wesley Chapel and Land O’ Lakes to Carrollwood, Odessa and Northdale. Tap your neighborhood for directions and local details.
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Drive times are approximate — check live directions for your exact route. Free on-site parking at 3939 Cheval Blvd, Lutz, FL 33558.
Yes. Nu Image Medspa runs a full-service hair salon in Lutz at 3939 Cheval Blvd, just off N Dale Mabry Hwy near Cheval. It is staffed by a master stylist and colorist with decades of experience, sits inside a Lutz medical spa trusted for 20+ years, holds a 4.7-star reputation, and covers cuts, color, balayage, highlights, keratin, deep conditioning and color correction — all inside a clean, medically supervised setting.
A specialized salon is appointment- and consultation-based, so the same master stylist learns your hair, your history and your exact color formula and is accountable for the result over years. Big-box and walk-in chains are built for volume: rotating staff, no real consultation, and training aimed at fast cuts rather than balayage, keratin or color correction. In a high-UV, hard-water market like Lutz — where color fades and turns brassy fast — that specialist relationship is the difference between color that lasts and color you have to fix.
Yes — color is the heart of the salon. We offer root retouch and all-over color, balayage, full and partial highlights, glossing and toning, keratin smoothing, and corrective color for box-dye, brass and pool-green situations. Every color service is formulated to resist the fade and brass that Florida sun and water cause.
Both — and that is the point. Nu Image is one of the only places in the Lutz area where a real hair salon lives inside a medical spa. Your hair, skin and treatments like Botox® and facials are under one roof, held to a clean, medically supervised standard, with a single trusted team.
The salon is appointment- and consultation-based rather than walk-in. That is deliberate: Color, balayage, keratin and correction need a stylist who has time to assess your hair and plan the service, not a rushed turnstile. Call 813.949.3300 or book online and we will match you with the right master stylist.
Yes. Our master stylists work with curly, coily, wavy and textured hair as well as color-, bleach- and heat-damaged hair, balancing moisture and protein, building in bond protection, and adding deep conditioning where it is needed. Every plan is customized to your texture, porosity and history rather than a one-size template.
We publish a full price menu. Haircuts start at $65 (women’s), $35 (men’s and kids’); shampoo and blowdry and deep conditioning from $35; special-occasion styling from $90. Color starts at $65 for a root retouch, $30 for a gloss or toner, $150/$100 for full/partial foils, $160 for balayage and $275 for keratin. Corrective color is quoted at a complimentary consultation. New specials run every month.
The salon is inside Nu Image Medspa at 3939 Cheval Blvd, Lutz, FL 33558, just off N Dale Mabry Hwy near Cheval, Steinbrenner High School and Gaither High School. We serve Lutz, Carrollwood, Northdale, Cheval, Odessa, Land O’ Lakes and Wesley Chapel, with free on-site parking. Call 813.949.3300 to book.
