“Tongue Action”

by Seraphine Khorana on October 3rd, 2008
Posted In: Comics

I went to one of those walk-in places for a manicure.
The towel in front of me was dirty. I could see stains
and somebody else’s clipped nails on it. I wish I’d
said something, but I wouldn’t go back there anyway.

You see there’s this salon in Beverly Hills. It’s really fancy and beautiful but it’s impossible to get an appointment. I mean unless you’re Julia Roberts or one of the girls from Friends, you can just forget it. But one day, they called me. They had an opening. So I was finally going to get the chance to sit in one of those sacred beauty chairs. I was so excited. Then the colorist gave me Brassy Briggite instead of Harlow Honey. The shampoo girl washed my hair with spiral perm solution instead of color intensive moisturizing conditioning shampoo. Finally the stylist gave me a bob, with bangs.
Suffice to say it was just wrong, all wrong, for me, you know? First I was angry and then I realized my anger was completely misdirected. I mean this wasn’t the salon’s fault. I had sat there and witnessed this injustice and I had just let it happen. I didn’t get involved in the process. I forgot to use my voice. I forgot to believe in myself but now I know better.
Spoken by Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) in the movie Legally Blonde 2