Truth from beauty shops

Every week, mainly on Saturdays, women fill various beauty shops and salons in efforts to become primped, polished and perfected.
The hair salon is not only a place to get a relaxer, wash and set, or highlights, but it is also a place to relax and feel pampered while socializing with other women.
Everything from the latest trends to Q&A about relationships and personal issues, to”What hairstyle should I get?” to ” She stole my man, and I’ma get him back!” is conversed in the typical beauty salon.
“In a beauty shop, women talk about other people’s relationships,” said Shomeka Edwards, a freshman from Lake Charles, majoring in business management with a minor in accounting.
Gossip, gossip, gossip! This is the foundation for most conversations. Someone’s always in someone else’s business. However, women are not always “mess-makers.”
Some women prefer to talk politics and business while being beautified. Many talk about their children, good and bad, while others talk about simple subjects, like what they will prepare for dinner, or other plans for the evening.
“Women talk about their day at work, especially what happened, what was good and what went bad,” said Marquita Lewis, a freshman from Dallas, majoring in elementary education.
Going to the beauty salon can also be a learning experience. Older women give advice to younger, less experienced women on many issues.
“My beautician would talk about little girls getting pregnant. She’d tell me to stay away from boys,” said Jevon Robertson, a freshman from Chicago, majoring in accounting.
Whether it is honest advice, positive or negative criticism or just plain gossip, there is always much to learn and much to talk about in the beauty shop.