Sibling Rivalry

Sibling Rivalry

## Synopsis

When Taylor freezes up during a local news interview about the salon, Kylie steps in to help. But Taylor become upset over Kylie being the outrageous one and making more money than her and she’s still competing with her. Meanwhile, a Popular rock band, The Diva Skulls stop by *Tress It Up*! Jessica styles her mother’s hair. Megan shows off her make-up artistry skills.

## Excerpt

Need Your Hair Done?
Stop by at….
Tress It Up!
Where Great Hair is the Best Accessory!
Make an appointment with the best hairdressers.

Taylor Ferguson – Owner/Lead Stylist
Kylie Ferguson – Lead Stylist & Colorist
Jessica Samuels – Lead Stylist
Darcy Payne – Stylist
Jenny Slade – Stylist
Megan Benson – Styling Apprentice/Makeup Artist
Katie Irwin – Styling Apprentice

When Taylor freezes up during a local news interview about the salon, Kylie steps in to help. But Taylor become upset over Kylie being the outrageous one and making more money than her and she’s still competing with her. Will Taylor get over her jealous pride and thank Kylie? Meanwhile, a Popular rock band, The Diva Skulls stop by Tress It Up! Jessica styles her mother’s hair.

Tress It Up! is a best long-standing diverse hair salon located in Santa Teresa, California. Established in 2015, Tress It Up! Offers women’s haircuts, men’s haircuts, color services, highlights, and styling that fits your style.
The salon is owned by Taylor and Kylie Ferguson. From an early age, the Ferguson sisters always wanted to be hairdressers, just like their mother. While Taylor found her passion through her mother, Kylie found hers through Taylor. Since -, Taylor and Kylie have expanded Tress It Up! with make-up and nail services. As well as the on-location services for bridal, prom, and other events.

Chapter 1

Taylor Ferguson scanned her eyes at the website of her hair salon, Tress It Up! She was proud of both her salon and the website she created. But there was something missing to get the word around about her baby, TV publicity.
Then she heard a knock on her door.
“Come in!”
It was Megan Benson. She was a hairdressing apprentice, with more than six months of hairstyling experience. She told Taylor that her client had arrived.
“Oh shit!” Taylor had realized that she had a client at 9:15 in the morning. She raced out of the salon manager’s office and to her station where Megan and Taylor’s client were waiting for her.
“Thanks, Megs,” said Taylor.
In Taylor’s consultation, the client, Alyssa Callaway wanted a medium-length haircut. She also wanted a medium golden-brown hair color like the stylist she noticed from far away. The other stylist Taylor’s client was noticing was Kylie Ferguson, Taylor’s younger sister. Kylie had medium golden-brown hair. It was the same hair color the client wanted.
“Um, that’s my sister. You wanted the same hair color as her’s?” she asked.
“Yes. I love that color.”
“Ok. Give me a minute. I’ll be right back.”
Taylor walked to Kylie’s station. She was adding highlights to her client’s hair while the client sipped a cup of water. She told Kylie that her client loved her hair color. She asked her sister on how can she color her client’s hair the same shade as hers. Taylor was a pro when it came to haircutting. But she was not a pro when it came to hair coloring. That fell on Kylie. She was a hair coloring pro.
Taylor was more than just a stylist at Tress It Up! Salon, she was also the owner and manager. Kylie joined the salon a few months after her return to Santa Teresa, following her break-up her lying, cheating, bastard of a boyfriend. The boyfriend was also Taylor’s ex-boyfriend. When Kylie returned to Santa Teresa, her and Taylor’s mother have had a stroke. She survived, but it put her in retirement sooner than expected.
Taylor was forced into bringing Kylie in the salon, as a new stylist, while Taylor juggled styling and managing the salon. Although the two patched things up, they never thought that working together in a business would be different than living together.
When the sisters’ ex-boyfriend returned, they tried to compete on who loved him the most, until they realized he was bad news and dumped him for good.
Since Kylie joined the salon, she was added to the Tress It Up! website as a Senior Stylist and Lead Colorist. Taylor was the Owner-slash-Senior Stylist. The salon was more than just a business for the girls to support themselves, it was a place for them to showcase their talent they learned from their hairdresser mother, Karen. Taylor and Kylie attended L.A. College and majored in Cosmetology in the early 2010’s. Since then, they are both top hairstylists in Los Angeles.
“I used the Revlon Colorsilk hair dye. It’s… the Medium Golden-Brown shade. I have another box in my purse.”
“Thanks.” Taylor was desperate. She didn’t want to lose her client. She had to use a box of Revlon hair dye instead of a normal salon hair dyes in order to impress her client.
She raced to the color room to find any type of hair color that deliver Medium Golden-Brown results. That wasn’t Taylor’s only problem. She wasn’t a good colorist like her little sister. But when it came the medium-length haircut, it was the only thing Taylor can pull off. The Ferguson sisters made a promise to each other that when they began to work together at Tress It Up! they would teach other their top skills. Taylor would teach Kylie on her haircutting skills and Kylie would do the same with teaching Taylor on hair coloring.
“What’cha doing?” Kylie asked as she entered the color room.
“I’m in deep shit, Kyles. I can give my client a medium-length haircut, but I’m scared on coloring her hair.”
“You’ve been a hairdresser for thirteen years and you’re scared of hair coloring?” Kylie asked.
She was in disbelief that her older sister is still timid about hair coloring. But knowing that Taylor was in a jam, Kylie decided to help her out of it. Since she was a pro at hair coloring and Taylor was a pro of haircutting, they decided to put their teamwork to good use.
“I’ll make the color, you go cut your client’s hair.”
Taylor hugged Kylie as a thank you for helping her out. Since Kylie already finished with her client’s highlights.
Taylor returned to her client and told her that the color was on its way and that she’ll cut her hair first before adding the color. The client agreed. Megan walked up to Taylor and tells her that Kylie needed to see her. After telling the client that she’d be right back. Taylor went to see Kylie in the color room.
Kylie handed her sister a color bowl with the color she made for Taylor’s client.
“Thanks, Kyles.”
Three hours later, Taylor’s client saw the results of her new hair color and new haircut. She loved both of them. Taylor exhaled. After her client left, Taylor swept up the hair and cleaned up the color bowl.
“Admit it, you were glad you needed my help,” said Kylie.
“I need a drink.”
As Taylor filled a cup a water, she asked about Kylie’s client. She told her that her client loved her new highlights and would come back to Kylie. Taylor leaned forward to the wall, feeling like a idiot. She had much experience in hairdressing than Kylie, yet, Kylie was still much better at hair coloring than Taylor.
Jessica Samuels, a senior stylist at the salon, asked Taylor if she was okay. She tells her that she is fine, but doesn’t tell her the real problem, her frustration with Kylie being better than her.

Chapter 2

Kylie attempted to show Taylor her hair coloring skills. She has her old mannequin head doll from their cosmetology kit from college. They each had their own color bowls for Kylie to do the teaching and Taylor could learn from her.
“We’re coloring my doll’s head, Rachel. She has blonde hair, but we’re gonna change it to a light reddish-brown color.” Kylie had brought two boxes of Revlon Colorsilk hair dye with her. Her doll head was covered up in a coloring cape and paper towels to protect it from the color.
“You have your gloves on?” Kylie asked.
“Yeah.”
“Because dye can stain on client’s skin and your own skin. Believe me, it can happen to anybody.”
It was a good thing Taylor and Kylie were wearing aprons to cover up their outfits. Taylor’s apron covered her pink zip up blouse and gray cargo skirt and suede ankle booties. Kylie’s apron covered up her orange off-the-shoulder top and black leggings and black cutout heel sandals. Both sisters had their hair tied in ponytails, to protect their hair from color splatter.
“Here’s how you add color, Tay.”
Kylie took a piece of her mannequin doll head’s hair and dipped her color brush in the color bowl. She applied the color on the hair with Taylor observing. Following Kylie’s lead, Taylor took a large strand of her doll head’s hair and colored it with a color tint color brush. The sisters’ doll heads have been split into four sections, to make their jobs easier. Jessica Samuels was showing Darcy Payne and Jenny Slade on how to wrap color foils properly so that the foils doesn’t bleed. Darcy and Jenny were senior stylists at Tress It Up! Their roles as junior stylists allows them to work on clients and still learn the ropes of hairdressing. They both started out as Salon Assistants before being promoted to junior stylists. Tress It Up! provides education for fresh newbie stylists. Megan Benson was sweeping up the floor and observing Jessica’s coloring skills. It was no wonder Jessica was the senior stylist of the salon, like the Ferguson sisters. Jessica, Taylor, and Kylie’s positions as senior stylists allows them to educate their staff members the ropes of hairdressing due to their broad experience. Jessica and the Ferguson sisters are pros at cutting, coloring, and other stuff, while Darcy and Jenny are still learning while doing clients, and Megan and Katie Irwin, another assistant helping stylists with their clients.
“Still sweeping up the floor?” Katie asked.
“I hate this,” Megan groaned.
“Hey, Darcy and Jenny swept the floor before being promoted to junior stylists. You keep this up, you’ll be a junior stylist within next year.”
“Katie, can you help Megan with the floor sweeping?” Jessica asked.
“Right,” Katie responded.
Back in the color room, Taylor and Kylie had colored their doll heads’ entire hair. They had to wait twenty-five before they wash the dye out.
“I was worried I was going to get dye in my head doll’s eyes.” said Taylor.
“Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it,” Kylie promised. To Kylie, coloring hair was the easiest job in hairdressing, but it was a different story to Taylor.
Kylie’s client, Leslie Thompson, a working mother stopped by the salon for her hair appointment. She wanted a copper balayage color for her hair. As Kylie worked on her client’s hair, Taylor had to deal with her client, a nurse who was on her day off. She wanted a medium length layered haircut. She was going to an event later on that evening. Taylor still couldn’t get her mind off of her bad lesson in hair coloring. How could a hairdresser, with thirteen years of experience, have trouble with hair coloring? Taylor learned hair coloring from both her mother and beauty college, yet Kylie was still better at hair coloring than she was. That pissed Taylor off big time. Having a little sister, who is better at some things than the older sister, that could mess with your ego.
Taylor took her client to one of the shampoo chairs for part of the wash and cut. As she sat the client down and draped the shampoo cape on her, Taylor went to the shampoo and conditioner cabinet and took out the shampoo bottle. She squirted the shampoo out of the bottle, until she realized that she forgot to wet the client’s hair before applying the shampoo in the hair. With her mind on the bad hair coloring lesson from Kylie and the fact that she is better at hair coloring than she was, it was affecting Taylor’s ability to be professional. After heating the water to where it was comfortable for the client’s head, Taylor began wetting the hair and turned it off. She then applied the shampoo in her hair and put it all over the client’s hair. She scrubbed and massaged the client’s hair to get all the dirt and oil out of the hair while it lathered up in suds.
Elsewhere, Jessica, who was concerned about Taylor asked Kylie if her sister was okay. Kylie was still working on her client’s hair, placing lightener on the hair, then covering it with foils.
“What’s up with your sister?” Jessica asked.
“What do you mean?” Kylie was confused on Jessica’s question.
“She’s a little distracted. She forgot to wet the client’s hair before applying the shampoo and she was a little down.”
Kylie knew Taylor always acted professional, but now she started to see the signs. Kylie told Jessica that she tried to teach her sister on hair coloring and she messed up. Jessica was surprised on Taylor’s lack of hair coloring experience. From the disastrous lesson, it was affecting Taylor’s confidence. Kylie shushed Jessica, she didn’t want the other hairdressers and the clients to know about Taylor’s lack of hair coloring experience.
“I kept telling her that hair coloring isn’t that bad,” Kylie whispered to Jessica. She told Kylie that not every hairdresser can have her talent in hair coloring and that it took lots of practice.

Chapter 3

Taylor and Kylie were spending their free-day from work by helping their mother, Karen make brunch. They were living in a luxurious apartment complex in Santa Teresa, with a crystal-clear swimming pool, a gym, tennis and basketball courts, and it was close to Tress It Up! Salon. Taylor and Kylie were in charge of making pancakes. Taylor loved cinnamon flavored pancakes and Kylie loved chocolate-chip pancakes. Karen preferred plain normal pancakes.
Taylor mixed up the pancake mix and water to make the batter. Kylie took out frozen hash brown as she heated up the skillet with cooking oil, on the stove. Taylor and Kylie live with their mother in the apartment. Since Karen’s close brush with death left her unable to continue with her job as a hairdresser, she started cleaning the apartment, grocery shopping, and was always there for her two-hairdressing daughters whenever the going got tough for them.
As the women were cooking brunch, the house phone ranged. Taylor placed the bowl of pancake batter on the kitchen counter to answer it.
“Hello? Hey, dad!”
It was Taylor and Kylie’s father, Tim. He was working at a law firm in San Francisco. Tim and Karen have been divorced since the girls were in grade school. Still, he was there for them, when Karen nearly died of a stroke. He helped them out was she was in bed, recovering. Talk about no hard feelings.
“We’re making brunch. It’s mine and Kylie’s free-day,” Taylor explained to her father over the phone. Taylor’s long blonde hair was in a medium ponytail with hoop earrings. Kylie’s shoulder-length medium brown hair had two ponytail and it was nearly fried from the heat of the stove. She was holding a plate for the pancakes as soon as her mother flipped them over.
“Hurry up, Tay. I got to talk to dad!” Kylie yelled, as the hash browns were sizzling. Kylie believed that styling and coloring her clients’ hair was a breeze but cooking brunch with a hot skillet and hot cooking oil, that was a different story.
Taylor quickly said her goodbye to her father, promising him that she’ll talking. She hurried to the stove and gave Kylie the phone for her to talk to him as Taylor took over the hash browns as they were almost ready. She flipped them over while her mother had just finished mixing up the pancake batter. It was a hectic scenery, three hairdressers trying to make breakfast on a sunny day when they didn’t have to worry about client’s hair. It was a nice way for the Ferguson sisters to spend time with their mother; making breakfast, talking to their father on the phone, and even talking about their business.
Sometime later, the pancakes, hash browns, bacon were done and ready to be served and Kylie had just finished talking to her father. Now it was time to have brunch.
Kylie poured both ketchup and hot sauce on her hash browns as Taylor looked on
“That is way too much ketchup and hot sauce you’re putting on your hash browns,” she stated.
“Like you put too much syrup on your pancakes, Tay?” Kylie asked.
Taylor was cutting up her cinnamon-flavored pancakes as she gave her sister one of her facial expressions.
“Sometimes I put a little bit of syrup on my pancakes.”
Karen giggled as her daughters talked about how much they put on their food. Taylor grimaced to both her mother and sister that she may never be good at hair coloring.
“Taylor, you have thirteen years of hairdressing experience, you should be good at hair coloring,” said Karen. She was in disbelief that her own daughter, a fellow hairdresser would lack confidence in hair coloring. As a hairdresser herself, Karen has cut and color hair before her own daughters were born. She trained at different beauty schools in her own time and felt that Taylor should receive more education.
“I been training her in hair coloring,” Kylie butted in.
“We used my old mannequin doll heads for practice at the salon.”
"Thank god!" Karen exclaimed.
"The more you do color, highlights, or whatever, the more money you bring in and the more successful your business will become."
That was what Kylie was doing, her hair coloring talent has brought her and the salon more money than ever. Other hair stylists at the salon had brought in more money by adding color prices. Kylie's profile on the Tress It Up! account on instagram read that she specializes in color, highlights, ombres, balayages, and color corrections. Taylor specialized in women's cuts, children's cuts, and men's cuts. She was a pro in haircutting. It brought her more clients and more money. Taylor was known for being the "Princess of Haircuts. She also specialized in blowouts Keratin Treatment.

Chapter 4

Jessica Samuels was blow-drying her client’s hair after giving her a phoenix ombre. She used her paddle brush for the blow dry and an one inch curling iron from Conair for curling. It was the same curling iron she had since her post-beauty school days.
“Oh, wow!” The client exclaimed.
“I love it!”
The client’s new hair color and style catches the staff’s attention. Jenny Slade wished that she had the client’s fiery hair color. It looked amazing. She told her client while washing her hair that the salon was full of surprises. Jenny shampooed her client with just shampoo. Katie swept up the hair off the floor. Jessica's client left the salon, happy with her new hair style and ombre color.
Taylor draped her client with the black styling cape with the Tress It Up! logo on it. According to the consultation, her client wanted a new hairstyle after having a medium-length curly hair for four years. Taylor touched the client's hair and noticed that it was coarse, frizzy, and had no life to it. So Taylor took the client to the sink for shampooing and conditioning. Kylie was doing the color correction on her client, Paige Cunningham, a local resident in Santa Teresa who poorly trusted a hairstylist with giving her highlights at another salon. She was in the color room making the lightener needed for the color correction. After she was finished, Kylie headed back to her station where she had left her client, who was reading a magazine, with her lightener and color brush in tow. From the moment Kylie met her client, it was obvious. The client had trusted a terrible excuse of a hairdresser. She knew that if any hairdresser can't do highlights right is a horrible hair colorist. It looked like someone screwed up an ombre or an balayage.
After she finished shampooing and conditioning her client's hair, Taylor got to work, cutting the hair and added some layers to give her client's hair some shape. Taylor's mind was always on her clients' hair whenever she was working. Nothing else mattered, just doing her job and making her clients happy before they leave the salon. Whenever she is going through something upsetting, she would do hair to help ease her mind.
Kylie had her two color bowls for highlights and lowlights. She was ready and eager to fix her client's botched-up highlights. She felt that after this, Paige would rather come back to Kylie for anything related to color. She began working her magic on Paige's hair with color foils on stand by.
Taylor had finished the haircut, now she was blowdrying the client's hair before dry-cutting. She had turned on her eighteen-watt Ultra Blast blow dryer and began drying the hair with her purple paddle brush. She had added heat-protectant spray to the hair before she began blowdrying.

Chapter 5

Kylie was going over her consultation with her client, Kara Bain. Kara wanted her blonde hair lightened up, as well as crazy, funky pink color. She was about to turn thirty and didn't fit in with the serious about their lives thirty-year-olds. She wanted to have awesome hairstyle and a vibrant hair color as a way to celebrate the biggest milestone of her life.
Kylie went to the color room in the back of the salon, to make her lightener. Jessica was already in the room, mixing up color for her client, Libby Webber. She was about to give her client an caramel ombre color. The client wanted her dull, boring dark brunette hair to get updated.
"Hey, Kyles," she greeted.
Jessica was wearing a black styling apron with the Tress It Up! logo on it. Her wavy auburn hair was in a boho style ponytail.
"Hey Jess," said Kylie.
She was mixing hair lightener and thirty volume creme developer in the color bowl. She planned to add the lightener to the client's blond hair to give the blond hair color some life. Kylie had Katie wrap a chemical cape around Kara, while she was making the lightener. The stench of the lightener was so strong, it made Kylie twitched her nose. As she left the color room, with the bowl of lightener in her right hand, Kylie raced to her station, where her client was waiting and sipping a glass of champagne. She dipped her color brush in the color then paint each sections of the hair.
On the other side of the salon, Jenny Slade was painting color on her client's blond hair. Jenny's client, Alana Hart wanted a sunset ombre hair color. She was a fun-loving person and left like her blond hair didn't fit with her personality. Jenny had used red, orange, and electric purple hair color for her client's hair.

Chapter 10