These New Inventions

... really make our lives shorter simpler, don't they?

This is Susie.

She was roommate at Hairlarious. She likes to perm her own hair, leading to disastrous consequences.

Free Classes on Senior Wednesdays!

Labor Day

Lethal, Thombeau, Felix, and Peenee turn the tables and play customer for a day.

Please--

Get this woman out of my chair. She is not my client.

Oh dear...

that beauty-school matron that was filling in for me when I was on vacation was not what we expected.

I Have a Stalker

If you see this man, refuse him service!

Challenging Client #8: the Perils of Power

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, mattyOily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxenKnotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braidedPowdered, flowered and confettied,Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied...

Notre chère cliente, the one and only Mme. Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon, is perhaps the only person in history whose crowning glory represents every single aspect of the subject covered in the title song from Hair.  
Eventually, we had to give her up; the long weekly flights to Yaoundé for her maintenance wash and sets were bad enough, but we simply lost patience with having to explain to her that there just weren't any more techniques we hadn't already tried.  Hers is in fact the world's only straightened, stripped, dyed, permed, ironed, layored, razored, texturized, up, down, marceled, and ruthlessly curled 'do in history.  But she always wants more...

New Directions in Millinery

Too pooped to bouff your 'do?  Oh, we've all been there, girls, but now there's hope!  Why not try one of these charming new head cosies?  See Margaret in the Gift Shoppe for sizes and colors...

Remember:

Don't go anyone unlicensed - you wouldn't want cement in your hair...or worse!

Rosemary's Baby

Little Baby Lethal, 1968

Who Stole the (Good) Hair?

From today's NYT: 

In addition to the $150,000 Houston robbery this month, thieves have recently taken $10,000 in hair from a San Diego shop; $85,000 from a business in Missouri City, Tex.; $10,000 from a shop in Dearborn, Mich.; and $60,000 from a business in San Leandro, Calif. All the values were provided by the storeowners.
Law enforcement officials have been perplexed by the sudden increase in the thefts of hair and the violence that has accompanied some. Some agencies say they had been unaware of the trend before, and others are still learning about it.
“That’s the first I’ve heard of it,” said Denise Ballew, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I., who oversees data related to property crimes.

But with the increased profits has come violence, the police say.
In Dearborn, Mich., Jay Shin, the owner of Sunrise Beauty Supply, was killed during a holdup on March 15 by gunmen who stole 80 packages of hair extensions worth about $10,000. Two young men have been arrested.
Assaults have been reported even when only a small amount of hair is involved. In West Palm Beach, Fla., a 16-year-old girl sprayed a clerk with pepper spray last year as she made off with extensions. And in Lawton, Okla., the police said a customer who ran out of a store with extensions tried to escape with the store owner clinging to the hood of her car. 

 She said illegal hair was being sold everywhere, including by people who have come to her shop offering it to customers and by people who have tried to sell it to her on the street.

“ ‘Yo, I got some hair,’ ” Ms. Davis said, imitating the come-on.

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