Pre Imaginary Date Shopping and Salon Date...Day

Helena’s Uniform

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Helena had spent all of her day at the hair salon. Leah’s was a nice little place, it offered not only hair but also nails and spa treatments and facials and makeovers! Helena loved to do them all but her true specialty was hair. She was finishing up a client – one of her regulars. She was an older woman who loved to get her hair dyed black to hide the grey hairs on her head, and cut and trimmed to fall to just her shoulders. Helena was putting the finishing touches on the cut when the door opened and the little bell kept dinging oddly.

She saw a woman enter, her hands full of bags. It was Kyra, someone who she knew and had done the hair of before. She’d also done her nails before, too. ”Kyra! Hello!” Helena said, her loud voice ringing out loudly. The other staff gave Kyra a smile when they saw her, them also knowing she came frequently. However it was typically Helena who served her. The woman Helena was serving gave Kyra a smile as well. ”If you want to sit down over in the waiting area, I can get you in after I’m done with Natalie,” She gave a wide smile to Kyra. ”What’s it going to be today? Hair, nails, makeover, all of the above?”

”Oh come off! I’ll be done with Natalie in five minutes, tops!” Helena said. ”Natalie just got her hair dyed and cut – it suits her better, I think! I always love impulsive changes like that.” She was one to speak, with the tips of her hair still a bubblegum pink from her latest impulse dye.

”Five dates? I like five better than three!” Helena said. Natalie laughed in agreement. Helena compared lengths of the strands of hair in her jurisdiction, humming to herself. ”You’ve got to tell me all about the date plans when I’m styling you up!”

Natalie’s services were done, and she went to the counter to pay. Helena followed her over, her smile bright as she handed the woman her card back. ”Just give me a minute to clean up the hair station! Would you prefer hair or nails first?”

Helena finished her transaction with Natalie, laughing at the mention of Descendants. She and Griffin had watched that one night and, while Helena had enjoyed it, Griffin had not. ”You’d be surprised, actually! I know quite a few people whose hair I’ve dyed purple! And they all look fabulous!” She said. ”I know. I could do with a date too! But everyone I meet is either too young for me or looking for something quick and easy.” She sighed.

When Kyra consulted Siri for advice Helena watched in amusement, before her friend finally settled on nails. ”Isn’t Siri so useless at times?” she said. She led her friend through the little hair salon, toward the back. Behind a curtain was the spa aspect of the place, but she stopped at a little booth and sat behind the counter. Nail polish decorated the walls, and she set a placemat designed to catch any spillage down on the flat wood surface. ”So, any preferences on colors? Do you want an accent nail, a manicure, an intricate design?” she asked. ”We have some examples in this little book to the left.” She pointed to a small portfolio of nail designs to Kyra’s side. ”Working full-time is a hassle; it seems so nice, but then again I miss school when it was so much easier to hang out with people and I only worked part-time!”

Helena laughed, standing up to go to the racks of colors. As Kyra explained what colors she might want, Helena took a few tentative nail polishes off of the rack. She grabbed a teal, a bright blue, a black, and a neon green. She laid the colors down on the counter, and washed her hands. She always did this before starting a new client! ”I agree! Let’s wing woman it up! All of these Eastern girls can come and try to steal our men, but we’re better than that. If they can be stolen away by some other girls, they’re not worth our time!” She laughed, sitting down across from Kyra.

”Siri is quite the character,” Helena said, laughing at her depiction of what happened. Kyra was always so funny, especially when she talked to Siri! Once Kyra flicked to a design she liked, Helena smiled. She turned the book towards her so she could better see the design, and beckoned for Kyra to give her her hands. She grabbed a small bucket of warm water and gently placed Kyra’s fingers into it to soak. ”I do miss school. It was so much less responsibility – but I do have a really good job.” She said, with a smile. ”oh! Over there, I put some of the colors you listed. Choose whichever one you want me to use for the background and I will! I could do an ombre with two of the colors on your nails, if you want!” she said. ”And, do you want the acrylics to make them longer, or do you want me to just paint this design on your natural nails? They are rather long as is.”

”Oh! Women too? Well that’s not a problem!” Helena chirped. She hadn’t know that about Kyra, but she was certainly learning new things on the daily! ”I wouldn’t say no to the right woman either! Though I don’t believe it’s quite the same for me; I don’t often look at girls that way! And if I told some of my customers they may think I was eyeing them up or something!”

She laughed, grabbing the colors Kyra had mentioned. ”I think that sounds lovely! Let’s get on a rotation and if we find someone eye catching we can go for it!” She gently took Kyra’s hands and began to wash the nails, cleaning her fingertips of any stray polish or skin that might be peeling. She was used to doing this and kept her touches gentle. She nodded when Kyra told her all natural. ”Sounds good to me! Your nails are long enough we can do that.”

She smiled at the memories. ”The people, mostly. I used ot be the president of the radio club in school! I had a show every day, and I really had a lot of fun with the other members.” She laughed when she asked about a guardian angel. ”Well, there’s Griffin and Oliver! Griff’s gay, and Oliver... I don’t know. But the two of them are meant to be together. But shh at that part! I suppose there’s Nova too, but she’s straight!” She laughed. ”I will keep my eyes open, though!”