Marianna's Beauty Salon: they were two Pakistani girls with long hair venturing into forbidden territory--the Dominican hair salon.
Colorlines Magazine › Vol. 9 Nbr. 4, November 2006
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Marianna's Beauty Salon: they were two Pakistani girls with long hair venturing into forbidden territory--the Dominican hair salon.
WHEN I WALKED BY MARIANNA'S Beauty Salon, I always saw Dominican women, their hair the blonde of a lion's mane, frozen as if the wind had come and left it that way, frozen in place with industrial-strength hairspray. Their skin would be brown from summers of going to the D.R., quick dashes of blush across their cheeks like hot pink scars. The window would be smoky from all the steam inside, the hair blow-dried and washed.
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