Avenue Salon by Liz Stricker

Avenue Salon is a Truman Avenue hair studio run by stylist Liz Stricker, built around a specialty in hair extensions and blonde color work. The salon offers several extension methods, including K-tips, wefts, and tape ins, giving clients options depending on their hair type, budget, and how long they want the extensions to last between maintenance appointments. For a lot of Key West residents and visitors dealing with sun exposure and salt water, extension and color work has to be planned around how the hair will hold up in island conditions, and that is a big part of what a specialist stylist brings to the table.

Blonde color treatments are another focus of the salon, from single process color to more involved lightening work, and the studio also offers blowouts for clients who want a finished style without a full color or cut appointment. Rounding out the service list are manicures and pedicures, which lets the salon serve as a one stop appointment for someone getting ready for a night out or an event without needing to visit a separate nail salon.

The salon keeps a fairly specific schedule, open Monday through Saturday with an extended Wednesday evening slot that runs until nine, and closed on Sundays. That kind of schedule is typical of a smaller, appointment driven salon rather than a high volume walk in shop, and it suggests a business built on returning clients who book ahead rather than drop in traffic off Duval Street a few blocks away.

Being located on Truman Avenue puts Avenue Salon within the Old Town core, close to the guesthouses, restaurants, and shops that make up the historic part of the island. That stretch of Truman has long been home to a mix of small service businesses that cater to both the local community and the steady flow of visitors who come through Key West every season.

Clients interested in extensions, color, or a full beauty appointment before a wedding or special occasion can find booking information, pricing guidance, and portfolio photos through the salon’s Instagram account, which is actively maintained and gives a good sense of the stylist’s range of work before committing to an appointment.

Salt water and sun are hard on any hairstyle, and a stylist working primarily in Key West develops a practical sense for which extension methods and color formulas hold up best against daily humidity and the occasional dip in the ocean. That local, climate specific experience is often more valuable to a repeat client than a generic styling credential from a mainland training program.