Lalithas Beauty Clinic

Down at 83 3rd Main in Yadavagiri, you’ll find Lalithas Beauty Clinic. It’s a quiet enough street, mostly residential, so we don't have the same noise as the main roads. The clinic is a small space where we have our mirrors and chairs set up. It smells like shampoo and hairspray most of the time. We spend our days talking to the ladies from the neighborhood who come in for their regular stuff. It’s a lot of chat about the weather or what’s happening in Yadavagiri. We don't have a big fancy sign or anything, just enough so people know which house it is. The floor gets covered in hair pretty quickly, so we are always sweeping it up. It’s just a few of us working here. We use the same tools we’ve had for a while because they work just fine. We don't go in for all those new-age marketing tricks you see online. People come here because they know us and they’ve been coming for years. We make some tea in the back when it’s slow. Sometimes a neighbor just drops by to say hello even if they don't need anything done. It’s that kind of place. We just try to make everyone look a bit tidier before they head back out to their homes. It’s simple work but it keeps us busy from morning till evening, six days a week.