So...are there places where people with 'alternate lifestyles' can get their hair done, manis and pedis, waxings in hard-to-reach places? Total transformations?
Reason I'm asking is I'm moving in the near future and when i move, I'd like to open a salon. I've been a hairdresser for 30 years adn I'm so tired of the average everyday clients. I live in an army town and all I do is fades, fades, fades. I had a woman come in one day and wanted a mohawk. I said, "Okay...just to be sure we're on the SAME PAGE, you want from here (pointing to the top of her head) to here (pointing to the top of her ear) shaved down to skin on both sides, right?" She said, "Yup!" So, then her partner comes in and says, "I can't believe you're going to such extremes!" So, I said, "Well, if you want to go extreme, you should dye it hot pink, too!" She said, "....can you???..." I said, "I'll go mix it up!" It was the funnest thing I've done in a long time, that hot pink mohawk. Just different and I love to mix it up. And I like to give people that would feel like people are constantly judging them a place to go and not feel judged. Being a hairstylist, I've worked with many people that have alternate lifestyles...mostly gay men...and I've always just wanted to tuck them under my arm and protect them and yell at people that are too narrow minded to accept a nice person just because of what they do behind closed doors.
So...in a large city with more than one drag bar...do you think a salon that caters to people with alternate lifestyles would be hugely popular or just a flash in the pan? I already have it names...Metamorphosis. I love it. I'd have butterflies as my theme. Catchy aint it?