A new salon has settled into Winter Garden, bringing haircuts, hair extensions, nail services, and bridal styling to a growing stretch of West Orange County. The Garden Edit Beauty opened last month at 990 Windermere Road, Building 10, Suite 103, tucked just behind Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves.
The shop is the second Central Florida location for The Beauty Edit, whose Winter Park sister location is The Park Edit. As reported by the West Orange Times & Observer, the Winter Garden outpost rounds out the brand's footprint with a full menu that includes haircuts and styling, coloring and highlights, hair extensions, hair treatments, event styling, and nail care.
The salon's service list goes well beyond a basic trim. Gel-X nail extensions, builder gel manicures, custom hair extensions, and bridal event styling sit alongside the standard color and cut offerings, per the same account from The Beauty Edit, positioning the shop as an elevated option for clients planning weddings or special events rather than just routine upkeep.
A Spot Behind Winter Garden's Busiest Shopping Corridor
The salon sits immediately behind Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves, according to a Real Broker LLC post. That puts the business within easy reach of shoppers already headed to the retail corridor that anchors commerce in this part of West Orange County.
ACES Psychiatry is also listed at 990 Windermere Road, in Suite 101B.
Clients can visit Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the salon closed Sundays and Mondays, per the Times & Observer's reporting. More details and booking information are available through the brand's website, beautybyedit.com.
Winter Garden's Growth Spurt Is Drawing Beauty Investment
The timing of the expansion tracks with Winter Garden's steady population climb. The city's total population reached 48,288 residents in 2026, a 1.7% increase from the 47,480 residents counted in the 2020 U.S. Census, according to World Population Review. City officials expect that growth to continue well beyond the current decade.
In August, the Winter Garden City Commission sent its updated 2050 Comprehensive Plan to state regulators, projecting the population will grow 26% over 2023 levels to reach 66,306 residents by 2050, as reported by the West Orange Times & Observer. That long-range blueprint is shaping land use and infrastructure decisions across the city as new residents arrive.
Median household income in Winter Garden reached $106,495, according to World Population Review. The area's income level lines up with the kind of client base that tends to seek out extended services like bridal styling and extensions.
What It Takes to Open a Salon in Florida
Behind the ribbon-cutting lies a layer of state paperwork that every Florida salon must clear. Under Chapter 477 of the Florida Statutes, salon operators are required to hold an official cosmetology salon license for the physical facility from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, in addition to individual licenses for each practitioner working inside, according to StartBusinessByState.com.
Those individual stylist licenses come with their own demands. Cosmetologists seeking licensure in Florida must complete 1,200 school hours of approved cosmetology education and pass a written state board exam administered through Pearson VUE, per Daytona College. Locally, Orange Technical College offers a 1,200-hour cosmetology program aligned with those state standards, and graduates can earn up to 24 articulated credits toward an Associate in Science degree at Valencia College, according to Orange Technical College, giving West Orange County a built-in pipeline of trained stylists for salons like The Garden Edit Beauty.
