“Kyuri was actually so nice about it when she finally came around. Usually she watches it over and over but today she is too excited to stay still. She loves watching the final makeover, when the chosen step out from behind a curtain while their families-who have not seen them in months while they recover from surgery-scream and cry and fall to their knees when they see how unrecognizably beautiful the winner has become. Sujin’s favorite program is this variety show called Extreme to Extreme, where they feature several severely deformed (or sometimes just really ugly) people every week and have the public phone in their votes on who should win free plastic surgery from the best doctors in the country. So on Sundays, we lounge around the apartment and eat banana chips and ramen and watch TV on the computer.
During the weekdays, I go to work at 10:30 A.M. “Are they perverted?”ĪT HOME, the only time I ever hang out with Sujin is on Sundays, which are my only days off. Are they stupid?” She studies herself in the mirror, tilting her head to the side until I right it again. I mean, why doesn’t she just get surgery? Why? I really don’t understand ugly people. “Sometimes I just can’t stop thinking about how ugly she is. And I think it makes us girls look prettier too, because she is so horrifying.” But you know what? I think we must be the only room salon with an ugly madam. I think I would kill myself if I looked that ugly. I look at our madam and she is just the ugliest creature I have ever seen. “The older girls have to try so hard with their hairstyles. I start curling the sections on the left side first, inside out. Kyuri prattles on with her eyes closed while I gather her hair in small strips and pin them to her head. She was so beautiful in it, you know? And her hair is completely natural, did you know that? She hasn’t dyed it or permed it in ten years because of her contract with Shampureen.” I really think it’s because of Cho Sehee from that movie My Dove. And they all say that they like long, wavy hair. “I make it a point to ask every man-just because I want to know for sure.
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