Lee Blue Hair & Hat Designs

Lee Blue Hair & Hat Designs sits on Broadway in the Inlet Grove neighborhood of Riviera Beach, a residential and small-commercial stretch a short drive from the Blue Heron Boulevard business corridor. The name tells you something most hair salons cannot claim: this shop pairs hairstyling with custom hat design, a combination that speaks to a specific kind of clientele, women who want a finished look for church, a wedding, a formal event, or just a Sunday outing, built from the crown of the head down rather than hair alone.

That hat-making side of the business is worth understanding if you have never used a service like it. Custom millinery work, shaping, trimming, and fitting a hat to complement a hairstyle or an outfit, used to be common in Black beauty culture across South Florida and much of the historic South, and shops that still offer it are increasingly rare. Lee Blue keeps that tradition alive alongside standard hair services, which makes it a genuinely distinct stop rather than an interchangeable neighborhood salon.

The shop’s hours run on the shorter side of what you might expect from a full-time salon, with confirmed availability Wednesday through Friday and additional days handled by appointment or inquiry, which is typical for a small, owner-operated shop where the person doing the styling and the hat work is often the same person managing the calendar. Payment flexibility is one area where the shop goes further than many small operators in the area, accepting cash, all the major credit cards, PayPal, and even invoicing for larger custom orders, which suggests the business handles a fair number of special-occasion and event-related bookings where a formal invoice might be requested.

Because hat design work involves fitting and finishing that can take real time, anyone interested in that particular service should plan to call ahead rather than walk in expecting same-day turnaround, especially around wedding season or the spring and fall church calendar when demand for finished hats tends to spike. Regular hair services, cuts, styling, and related work, tend to move at a more typical pace for a small shop.

Located just off the Broadway corridor that runs through the older residential core of Riviera Beach, Lee Blue Hair & Hat Designs is easy to find for anyone already familiar with the neighborhood, and it rewards a phone call before a visit given the shop’s smaller, appointment-driven schedule. For residents looking for a one-stop combination of hairstyling and finished millinery work, a category that has largely disappeared from most beauty directories, this is one of the few shops in Palm Beach County still doing it as a core part of the business rather than a novelty add-on.