Signature Japanese Head Spa in South Charlotte, NC

Japanese Head Spa

Pure relaxation and nervous-system restoration through intentional touch, slow movement, deep pressure-point work, and thermal mineral rituals.

The Japanese Head Spa, newly reimagined

A slower hand.
A deeper settling.

Every ritual has been rebuilt around the massage itself — less scrubbing, more intentional touch, with deep pressure-point work placed on purpose to really settle you in.

A sanctuary for nervous system restoration. Yume Certified Hands, Clean Formula. Every detail says: you can relax now.

The Rituals

No traditional versus non-traditional. No targeted-or-not decisions to make. Every ritual is the full Head Spa Sanctuary experience — each step up simply adds more time, more customization, more ceremony.

The Exhale

60 min

“Step inside and exhale”

Pure relaxation and nervous-system restoration through intentional touch, slow movement, deep pressure-point work, and thermal mineral rituals.

  • Signature arrival ceremony
  • Relaxation-focused head spa
  • Healing waters ritual
  • Intentional massage and sensory experience

The Release

75 min

“More time to let go”

Everything in The Exhale, unhurried — the extra time becomes deeper massage and a longer stay in the stillness.

  • Everything in The Exhale, plus:
  • Extended intentional massage
  • A slower, deeper sensory journey

The Rebalance

90 min

“Come home to yourself”

The Signature Sanctuary Ceremony — the definitive expression of the Sanctuary, crowned with the finale.

  • Everything in The Release, plus:
  • Scalp Scope
  • Mini luxury facial
  • Self-styling access

The Scalp Scope

We look before we begin

Your scalp has been trying to tell you something. Before a single product is chosen, we take a closer look at it together — on the screen beside you, magnified, in four different kinds of light.

Each light reveals something the others can’t. It’s how we know which mud to reach for, which oils to blend, and where your specialist’s hands should spend the most time. Nothing about your ritual is guessed.

Included with The Rebalance. Add it to The Release for $35 — about ten minutes, and the ritual is shaped around what we find.

01

Polarized light

Maximizes light reflection to show us shine, oiliness and texture of the scalp.

02

Normal light

Shows us the normal condition of the scalp enhancing any dryness/oiliness, flaking, or sensitivity to be mindful of.

03

Cross polarized light

Allows us to see blood circulation going to the scalp as well as veins and capillaries.

04

UV light

Harmless light that shows buildup on the surface and beneath the hair follicle.

Ritual Add-Ons

The Anti-Age Filler

$130

Finish any of the three with the Anti-Age Filler — a strengthening treatment sealed in with a professional blow-dry and flat iron.

It nourishes, remineralizes, and replenishes the hair fiber — you leave with hair that’s remarkably shiny, full-bodied, and as restored as you feel.

Scalp Scope

$35

A closer look at what your scalp has been trying to tell you, and the attention it’s been asking for — about ten minutes. Add it for specific concerns, and we’ll focus the ritual on what we find.

Scalp Scope included in The Rebalance

After Your Head Spa

Every ritual ends with a gentle towel dry — where it goes from there is entirely up to how you’d like to walk back out into your day.

Air Dry

Included

Keep it simple. We’ll gently towel dry your hair and let it dry naturally on the way home. No charge, no fuss, and nothing to decide.

Self-Styling Access

$10

Our private styling room is yours — salon mirrors, flattering light, premium products, brushes and blow dryers. Up to four guests at a time. Included with The Rebalance.

Flat irons and curling irons aren’t included.

Professional Styling

Walk out fully polished. One of us finishes your hair for you — sleek and straight, or soft and diffused.

Whichever you choose, you’ll leave feeling refreshed, confident, and cared for.

Simple Blow Dry

$60

Smooth and dry, paddle brush, no curl

Blow Dry & Flat Iron Finish

$90

Polished and straight, with shine and movement

Curl Defining & Diffused

$100

For naturally curly or wavy hair

Enhancements

A few more ways to stay a little longer

Add any of these to any head spa ritual. None of them are necessary — that’s rather the point. Each one is a small yes you can say to yourself while you’re already here.

Collagen Masks

Knesko Skin

Genuine gemstones and minerals infused into collagen masks — free of phthalates, parabens, sulfates, and PEGs. Laid on while you rest, doing their quiet work in the background. Choose from the kinds we keep in house.

Face Mask

$40

Eye Mask

$20

Lip Mask

$20

Hand Ritual

$40

With body serum and body cream

Neck & Décolleté Mask

$75

With body serum and body cream

Blended in House

Custom Scalp Tea

$20

A soothing herbal infusion, crafted by our in-house Clinical Herbalist for your scalp’s needs, then steeped into a warm, aromatic rinse that closes your ritual. Choose your blend, or let your specialist choose for you.

Face Mask

$40

Eye Mask

$20

Lip Mask

$20

Hand Ritual

$40

With body serum and body cream

Neck & Décolleté Mask

$75

With body serum and body cream

Two ways to finish your face

Makeup

A little touch of glam before you go.

Finishing Touch Makeup

$45

40 minutes

A light, natural application to soften and even things out — nothing heavy, nothing that undoes the calm you’ve just found. Just enough that you leave looking like the most rested version of yourself. Add it to any visit.

Guided Makeup Tutorial

$100

45 minutes

Most of us were never taught. We’ll match your colours properly, then walk through your everyday look step by step — in your hands rather than ours. Ask anything, repeat anything.

You’ll leave knowing what to buy, what to skip, and how to do the whole thing in ten minutes tomorrow morning.

For the hands

Luxe Hand Renewal

$15

A warm shea sugar scrub massaged in to buff away dryness and restore softness. Your hands carry the week too.

Hands, neck & décolleté

CBD Calming Touch

$20

A tension-relieving massage using FarmHouse Fresh’s full-spectrum Hi-Bio® Hemp CBD oil — grounding you from head to heart.

Newest enhancement

Red Light Therapy for the Hands

$20

Warm red light over the hands while the rest of you rests — nothing at all for you to do. Pairs naturally with the Luxe Hand Renewal, so the scrub softens and the light does the rest.

Best saved for after

Clinical Herbal Foot Soak

Copper bowl, warm water, citrus and herbs — and the surest way to stay in the calm a little longer before you drive home. We recommend taking it after your head spa, and booking it alongside so we can hold the time.

Bring someone with you.

Side by side, in the same room, at the same time.

For two

Duo Head Spa

Two of you, one room, at the same hour. A date, a best friend, a mother and daughter — book it online like any other visit.

For three or more

Triple Head Spa

Our triple room holds three of you at once, and with our single rooms alongside it we can care for six. Birthdays, bridal parties, a Tuesday that needed rescuing.

For the Little ones

They can learn to rest, too.

A shorter, gentler version of the ritual — a small robe, a stuffed animal welcome in the room, and someone being very careful with them for a while. Come together, or send them in on their own.

Tween Head Spa

Their own appointment, their own robe, their own hour of nobody needing anything from them. Gentler products, a shorter ritual, and the same unhurried hands.

Mommy & Me

Side by side, in the same room, at the same time. You get your hour; they get theirs. Nobody is waiting in a lobby, and the whole thing becomes something you both remember.

Special celebrations

When the day deserves a little more.

A birthday, an engagement, a hard year finally behind someone. Tell us what we’re marking and we’ll have it waiting in the room before they walk in.

florals

Special celebrations

Florals

Arranged here, by us, the morning of. Tell us the occasion and we’ll build something for it — waiting in the room, or handed to them on the way out.

chocolates

Something sweet

Chocolates

Set out beside the tea, for after. Small, good, and exactly enough — the kind of thing nobody buys for themselves.

sips bites

For the lounge

Sips & Bites

Something to pour and something to pick at, laid out in the relaxation lounge — so the celebrating happens before and after, not just during.

cold pressed juices

Made locally by Jooced

Cold-Pressed Juices

Fresh cold-pressed juice from Jooced, chilled and waiting in the lounge. The kind of toast that leaves you feeling better than when you arrived.

Add one, or all four. We’ll ask what we’re celebrating and take it from there.

FAQs

Everything you might be wondering.

Something comfortable, and as little makeup as you like. We’ll give you a plush robe, cozy socks, slippers, and your pick from our blanket menu.

Please don’t — for 48 hours beforehand if you can manage it. Your scalp tells us more when it’s had a few days to be itself.

Fifteen minutes, and fill in your intake forms before you come. The relaxation lounge is part of the visit, not a waiting room — there’s a waterfall, organic teas with infused honey, fruit-infused water, and gourmet coffee. Guests who use it say the ritual starts there.

Once a month. Your scalp renews itself on roughly a 28-day cycle, so monthly keeps pace with it.

Every texture, every length. Straight, wavy, coily — the ritual is built around the scalp in front of us, and we adjust the products and the pressure to it. The one thing we need is clear access to the scalp.

We ask that braids, sew-ins, and wigs come out beforehand, along with any glue or adhesive residue. Without clear access to the scalp we can’t do the treatment properly — and working around a style risks the style itself.

We don’t recommend head spas with tape-ins, or with three or more rows of extensions of any kind. If you’d like to come anyway, know that we can’t protect the adhesive or promise the full experience, and we can’t be responsible for slippage.

If you’re not sure where your style leaves you, send us a photo. We’ll tell you honestly.

Not at all — everything we use is color-safe and non-stripping for permanent color. Leave about a week on either side of any chemical service, since color can lift a little during the detox, and freshly cleaned scalps aren’t ideal for chemicals.

Semi- and demi-permanent color is the exception — there’s real washing involved here, and some fading is likely.

Psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis, eczema and the like are all welcome here between flare-ups. During one — anything with open wounds or fresh or dried blood — we’ll ask you to wait until it’s fully settled. If we find it during your consultation we won’t be able to continue that day. It’s about protecting you from infection, and everyone else too. We’ll happily rebook you once you’ve healed.

A clean, well-circulated scalp is better ground for hair to grow in, and the massage brings real blood flow to the follicles. We won’t promise you regrowth — nobody honestly can. What we can tell you is that the Scalp Scope lets us track it with you over time.

The Exhale is where most guests begin — a full hour, and the complete experience with nothing held back. If you’d rather not watch the clock at all, The Release gives the massage more time and a longer stay in the stillness.

The Rebalance includes self-styling access, and with The Exhale or The Release the styling lounge is yours for a $10 Self-Style Pass. If you’d like one of us to style you, that’s under Professional Styling starting at $60.

Add the Scalp Scope. We look at your scalp together on the screen beside you, magnified, in four different kinds of light — then shape the ritual around what we find. About ten minutes, $35 with The Release, and included with The Rebalance.

Yes — side by side, in the same room, at the same hour. Two of you can book a Duo online like any other visit. For three or more, our triple room plus our single rooms means we can care for six at once; call or text us at (980) 416-3597 and we’ll arrange it.

Only if they’re having a service too — we can’t have anyone waiting in the lounge, since the quiet is what everyone else came for. We offer a gentler Tween Head Spa, and Mommy & Me lets you book side by side so you each get your own hour.

Please do. Gift cards can be sent by email in a few minutes or picked up in person — we’ll wrap it for you. Any amount works, and they never expire.

Visit the Sanctuary and be transformed

Come as you are. Leave feeling renewed.
Book your visit to the Head Spa Sanctuary and discover why guests keep coming back for more.

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Niki N
October 28, 2026
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Over the top nice people working here. Very relaxing atmosphere. The service i recieved was so good. I was encouraged to stay as long as I'd like to relax. Super experience!
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Shelley Lubag
October 28, 2026
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I've been going to The Head Spa to get my Lashes done by Jade Walker for some time now. The service quality is truly exceptional, and very personalized! Jade is as sweet as can be! I highly recommend The Head Spa and her services!
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Rosemarie Sartori
October 28, 2026
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I can’t say enough about Jade at the Head Sanctuary. She is such a great eyelash technician. After years of searching for someone to do my lashes in such a natural way. Her work is professional and impeccable ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Meya Henderson
October 27, 2026
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Jade does wonderful lashes!!! Love that they’re priced a little better there than at lash spas!!
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Kim Watt
October 27, 2026
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One of the best spa experience ever!
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Kim Pope
October 27, 2026
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La'Shay did a wonderful job!
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Amber Hap
October 26, 2026
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Kahilea was amazing! She put so much time and care into my treatment and I will definitely be returning to see her. It was the best massage I’ve ever had!
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Jess R.
October 26, 2026
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Cannot recommend enough. I got a one hour head spa service and added the CBD massage enhancement. Hannah was phenomenal, and the entire experience was luxurious. The staff all seemed very kind and helpful. The whole building is well decorated and peaceful. The relaxation space is so nice. I will absolutely be back and will recommend to my family and friends.
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Jalyn Dance
October 26, 2026
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Couples massage for my husband and I to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Very nice ambiance and great hosts at the spa. Lauren greeted and welcomed us at the start of our visit with a smile. Lauren took a full assessment of his health history, and had the right amount of pressure during the massage. We can’t wait to return!