Rawat Beauty Parlour

This is Shop No 5 over in Dayal Bagh. Rawat Beauty Parlour has been here for a while, right near the Wonder Year School. Sometimes you can hear the kids playing outside during their break. It is a small place. I have been running the shop mostly by myself. It is mainly local women who stop in. Many of them are regulars who come by after they drop their children off at school in the morning. The walls are painted a simple off-white color. I keep my tools and bottles laid out on the counter where I can reach them. It is not one of those big fancy places you see in the shopping malls. Just a local shop for local people. The light in here is decent for working. Agra gets very dusty, so I am always wiping down the glass and the shelves. Sometimes customers bring their children along, and they sit on the chairs while I finish up. It gets a little bit crowded on the weekends. I try to stay organized, but things get busy fast. I do not use any loud machines, mostly just doing the work by hand. There is a tea stall just down the road, so the smell of chai often drifts through the door. Dayal Bagh is a settled area. I have gotten to know most of the people who live nearby over the years. We just do the usual hair and skin things that people need.