Georgia was raised by a single mom who struggled to make
ends meet in rural New Hampshire. Her mother shaped Georgia
into a self-reliant, independent woman who's unable to
trust anyone. Although her mother doesn't approve, Georgia
follows in her footsteps and becomes a beautician because
she loves helping people feel beautiful.
In the pivotal opening scene, Georgia witnesses her mentor
and friend collapse and be rushed to the ER from the fancy
Manhattan salon where they work. This shock causes Georgia
to reflect on the events in her life that have led to her
current career path. In her delightfully honest voice, she
guides the reader through her childhood at her mother's
beauty parlor, with bits of hair trimmings falling into her
playpen, to her present job in New York's hottest hair
salon. Even with this successful career, Georgia is not
happy. She wants to find someone special, but dating the
clients is out, because they just can't understand her
lifestyle, and practically every male hairdresser in the
city is gay.
When her boss asks her to scout locations in Paris for a
franchise, her evenings are suddenly full of French
classes, business seminars and dreams of her own salon. But
when the plans for expansion are put in jeopardy, Georgia
must decide if she can shape her own dreams, take a risk,
and trust her friends in a new venture.
The author is an experienced colorist to celebrities and
she shares her insider information as juicy gossip. Her
laugh-out-loud characterizations of the salon clientele
make this novel a winner. Clients are stereotyped based on
where they live, how long they've had money, whether they
work and how they tip. Descriptions range from the
hilarious Manhattan working woman to the horrific,
expressionless women fresh from a Botox treatment. My
advice: Read this book, and then treat yourself to a trip
to the salon.
Welcome to Jean-Luc, New York's hottest salon of the
minute, where high above Madison Avenue, Georgia Watkins--
star colorist--tends to the hair of socialites, actresses,
models and moguls. Georgia wasn't born to the Manhattan
elite, but she was born to color hair; back in rural New
Hampshire, her single mother struggled to pay rent on her
own small-town beauty parlor and keep her family afloat.
But Georgia wanted more. And so, after a stint at Wilfred
Academy, Georgia landed a job at Jean-Luc and moved to New
York City. Thrust into a glitzy, glittering over-the-top
world, Georgia finds herself highlighting dogs' hair to
match that of their owners', making house calls to the
Hamptons, and barely batting a well-groomed eyelash at a
thousand dollar tip. A rising star in the salon, Georgia is
far too busy for romance or even a day off - until she
finds that her quiet, handsome colleague Massimo has more
to offer than styling pointers. But when Jean-Luc betrays
them, Georgia finds her loyalty and her love are put to the
test, and she must depend on the most unlikely sources to
help her navigate the ugly side of the world of beauty.
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