Breaking point

Breaking Point

Breaking Point

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Chapter 1

"You're not gonna believe who I just ran into at CVS today."
Kylie Shaw entered the salon manager's office, as her sister, Taylor Doyle was looking at the video's of Tress It Up! Salon's YouTube channel.
"Alicia Keys?" Taylor guessed.
"I wish!"
Kylie closed the office door and sat down next to Taylor. She gushed on who she ran into while shopping for a new curling iron at CVS, which was across the street from the salon.
"No. I ran into Kiki Flores."
"Your old beauty school rival?" Taylor asked.
"C'mon, we were never rivals," Kylie scoffed.
Taylor smiled and laughed quietly. She can tell when Kylie was lying. She would scoffed and smile when she gets defensive. Kylie could never keep a straight face when being accused of something silly.
"Kylie, she made an ass out of you when she answered the question the instructor asked you."
Kylie's mind flashed back to beauty school. To the day Kiki Flores upstaged her in front of the class.
"Can someone answer what are frosted tips?" The instructor asked. When Kiki made Kylie foolish that day, the class was studying hairstyles. The lesson that day was Frosted Tips.
Kylie attempted to answer the question, but Kiki jumped in at the last moment and interrupted her.
"Frosted Tips is a hairstyle for men in which the hair is cut short and formed into short blond spikes."
Kylie was shocked and annoyed. That was the answer was wanted to give the instructor. She wanted to slap the shit out of Kiki Flores. She made a fool out of her.
"And what hair products are used to form this hairstyle?" The instructor asked again?"
"Either hair spray or hair gel?"
Kylie covered her eyes with her right hand in frustration. She pulled an all-nighter to study the frosted tips.
Kylie's mind return to the present day.
"Kiki upstaged you over a question about frosted tips?!" Taylor exclaimed in disbelief.
"Yeah. I studied my ass off on frosted tips, damn it!"
"Kylie, staring at Lance Bass's hairstyle from back in the 2000's, barely counts as studying frosted tips."
But there was a bright side, Kylie did answer on what ombre meant in English, when her class learned the history on ombres and balayages.
Kylie revealed to Taylor that Kiki Flores was now a head stylist for Cookin' with Wanda, a popular talk show-slash-cooking show on TV. She was a bit jealous that Kiki was working in Hollywood as a head hair stylist for TV and Film. Taylor had to remind her sister that she is a success herself. The two co-own the best hair and beauty salon in their neighborhood.
Tress It Up! Salon was a full-service salon that covered haircuts, color, styling, make-up, nails, etc.

Chapter 2

Megan Benson consulted with her client, Faith Morgan about fixing her hair. Faith explained that she received extremely bad hair extension at another hair salon and needed help to fix her hair.
Megan, the salon's junior stylist who specializes in different kinds of hair extensions, from tape-in to micro-beaded, was eager to get her hands on Faith's hair and attempt to fix.
She asked the client to take off her beanie so she could see the state of her hair. When Faith took the beanie off, her hair was such a mess, the word that came out of Megan's mouth was "DAMN!"
Faith's hair had the worst extensions Megan had ever seen before. Whoever Faith visited at another salon, whoever did Faith's extension obivously didn't know what the hell they were doing. Faith had done through a recently break-up with a boyfriend and decided to cheer herself up by getting hair extensions. Unfortunately, she put her trust in someone, who had really fucked her hair up.
"Pardon my french. I...uh..."
Megan couldn't believe another hairdresser would do this to this poor woman's hair. The extensions were a micro-bead technique. More like a jacked-up mirco-bead technique. The weft in the hair was a mess as well. Megan couldn't help but feel upset for the client and upset that someone who did this woman's hair, shouldn't have been doing hair extensions in the first place, unless they had proper education.
Jenny Slade walked towards Megan, to see what was going on. She was in shock when she saw Megan's client's hair.
"Who the hell did this to her hair?" she whispered.
"Another salon," Megan clenched through her teeth.
In the years she had been in the hair industry, Jenny had never seen a botched-up hair extensions in her life. And she thought a botched-up color job was bad.
During an up-close hair inspection, Megan was shocked by what else she saw in Faith's hair. The extensions weren't even human hair, it was something from a horse's hair. Faith's eyes grew big.
This was the messiest work Megan had ever seen. Everyone at the salon floor took notice. Darcy and Jenny, being the salon's senior stylists had never seen such mess in their lives and in their careers as hairdressers. Katie, another junior stylist and Megan's best friend, was stunned and at a loss for words.
Megan gently removed the extensions from Faith's hair. It was causing too much damage to her scalp, not just her hair and her confidence. With the extensions finally out of Faith's hair, Megan could finally see the full extent of the damage. She could see the areas in Faith's scalp where the extensions pulled so hard, that they pretty much pulled away a lot of the hair. Megan begged Faith to never visit the salon that jacked her hair and her scalp up ever again.
Megan could see a nice color for Faith, keep her blonde, but not so gray. Faith was way too young to have gray hair.
Jenny jumped on board to help Megan out with her client. She believed that the person who did Faith's hair in the first place, didn't give a shit about his work, nor took notice of he put Faith through, and shouldn't be behind the chair at all.
"This S.O.B. nearly butchered this poor girl's hair and scalp up!" she said, sounding really pissed off.
On the other side of the salon, Darcy Payne was with her client, Linda Parker. Going through a consultation.
"So what do you want done to your hair?" she asked.
"I want to have extensions. I had just beat breast cancer three months ago."
The revealation of Linda's breast cancer story got through to Darcy. She couldn't imagine a young woman like Linda facing the one thing every woman goes through. Her story sent Darcy to tears. Linda revealed that she was diagnosed at age thirty-one with no family history of cancer. She was a mother of two and in the best shape of her life.
"How did you... uh... find out that you had breast cancer?" Darcy asked.
"I was in my bathroom one day, getting ready for work, getting my kids ready for school, etc. And I saw this lumpy thing, two inches above my left breast. Had it biopsied. Then I got the call from the doctor. And told me I had breast cancer."
Linda explained that she remembered beginning treatments and her mother moving in with her for help. She also bought a stylish wig that resembled her old hairstyle she lost undergoing treatments. The one thing Linda wanted to do was to save her life. She had two small children to take care of. For someone, that young and raising to small kids, being diagnosed with breast cancer is the one thing no woman should go through.
Darcy hugged Linda, showing sympathy. She can be a real sympathic person. Darcy, herself, lost a relative to cancer. Her maternal grandmother died of lung cancer, due to decades of chain smoking. It was one of the main reasons why Darcy has always said "NO" to smoking.

Chapter 3

Taylor scanned her eyes on the computer screen in her office. She was on the UPS website, checking the status of her order. With the salon in partnership with Donna Bella, as well as Bellami, Great Lengths, Dream Catchers, Taylor always kept track of the hair extensions delivery. She was checking the Great Lengths order. Taylor had ordered several hair extensions. Tape-in, I-Link, and even weft extensions. She also ordered four weaving thread in four different colors.