Sometimes, I wanna get a new look.

[playdate]

Hey there, Gorgeous. You look a little down today. What's wrong? Not feeling good enough about your appearance? Maybe it's time for a change. Here's a voucher for our new salon. Why not check it out? I'm sure you'll love it. Nobody's ever complained. However it is that you manage to have found the place, a cute little facility that popped up seemingly overnight. The bright lights lead to a bubblegum pink hair salon that looks like it hasn't been used since sometime in the 1960s. Kind of cute in a retro sort of way. Welcome, newcomer, to the Be Youtiful beauty salon. Perhaps you discovered it during random wanderings of your own. Maybe you found a voucher slipped in the mail or by some of the lovely attendants outside. Or perhaps a lover did and suggested you might want to try out a change. Whatever the reason, the salon is certainly in operating order. It's been freshly polished and cleaned until it sparkles from the bright mod oranges and pinks of the walls to the sleek mirrored workstations. Upon entering, one is greeted by one of the perky attendants dressed in white go-go boots and a getup that looks a bit like the salon's decor exploded on it. Won't you stay a while to check out the services? If you don't like the way you look when it's done, it'll all be free of charge.

But that atmosphere is merely a cover for a more elaborate organization. At this fetish-friendly full-service salon, the staff is prepared to fulfill your most mundane and outlandish alterations. The salon comes stocked with as much product as a chemistry lab: has someone has decided your character is in need of a literal brainwash? There's a shampoo for that. Breasts too small? There's a cream to fix that right up. Or maybe just a simple haircut and color is in order. Just be careful about sitting under the hairdryer too long. Hair isn't the only thing that machine heats up. The salon is unisex, so both men and women are welcome to attend. Consensual business would be considered the norm, but in more extreme cases it isn't uncommon for a client to phone ahead and make sure resistant customers are properly drugged hypnotized restrained treated. Of course, if some of the more dominating clientele simply take a liking to the cute staff behind the counter they can consider themselves fully welcome to help themselves to the product on the shelves. Just beware that your character doesn't handle the wrong set of clippers or makeup wedges. Some of the equipment might leave a person feeling compelled to slip into something more mod and join the salon staff. So who are you, anyway? 1# Customer: You're the star of this production. Everyone's here to dote on you, to bring you in and help you become a better version of yourself. Whether you're in for a trim and polish or have been sent for a full body modification and personality overhaul, someone here will be sure to take care of it. Enjoy your time! 2# Staff member: You don't really remember when you started working at the salon, but that's hardly important. Here you are, fulfilling your wildest dreams. You get to make people beautiful. You're the one who makes sure that everyone leaves with a smile on their face. Maybe they won't have the same figure or mind they had when they walked in, but it's all for the best, right? 3# Significant Other: Things weren't working before. The relationship has gotten stale, and your partner isn't willing to fix it. They're too suspicious, too overbearing, too shy, or not adventurous enough. They're boring and bland and they just need some kind of change. That's why you got them a gift certificate for the salon. What could go wrong? Or alternatively, maybe you're here to do the rescuing. Someone's done terrible things to your partner, and you're here to stop it, or to talk sense back into someone who's been changed. Try not to get swept along for the ride while you're here. 4# Investor: This is your work entirely. Maybe you handle some black market pornography on the side. But you've got an invested interest in keeping the salon afloat. Be sure to always keep an eye out for good-looking strangers who might be useful as raw material for staff or stock. And what's the scene? 1# Just a little off the top, please. You were just thinking about needing a haircut, and here comes a hair place just at the right moment! It's a shame you don't know what kind of service you're about to receive. 2# I love you, you're perfect, now change. Either you're here because someone sent you here, or because some of that magic is starting to die out of your relationship. You'll do anything to hold on to it - even if it means changing who you are. 3# Eh, it's a living. You just needed a job. But then you followed a "help wanted' sign and next thing you know, you're piercing strangers' nipples and conditioning clients to give better blowjobs! Did you drink the kool-aid already, or is there some way to dismantle the system from within? 4# This year's model. The dust has settled, the fumes have cleared, and now you're no longer yourself. What happens next? Do you cut ties with your past life? Have you been swept away into a system far larger than yourself? And what do your friends and family say when they see you again?