A Story | The Chinese Hair Salon Girl
Just finished reading the story of Gou Li, a working girl at a Lanzhou Hair salon.
It reminded me of the abundance of red/pink hair salons here in Shanghai. The numbers seem to increase, as I see former real estate agencies vacate their small office and being replaced by a fictional hair dressers outfit.
The small rooms consists mostly of 2 or 3 hairdresser chairs, a big mirror, a couch with 3 to 4 half sleepy girls staring bored at a TV and at the back of the room a door to somewhere else.
Source: Zonaeuropa - The Death of a Hair Salon Girl
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Sunday, October 16th, 2005 at 10:35 am,
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October 18th, 2005 08:16
Good god thats sad
October 30th, 2005 04:08
oh so so so sad.
rest in peace.
December 11th, 2005 11:56
It hurts when I see them outside, it hurts that they make it so obvious and nobody says a word. a salon open at 9 pm. just seems odd. You can see how much they advertise them, I walk by and they look and give me a big smile with a wave. Poor girls, so young, I think of my own daughter or sister even mother, and I can’t do anything to stop it.