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{{trope}}
{{quote|My stars! Where did you ever get that awful hairdo? It doesn't become you at all. Here, for goodness' sake, let me fix it up. Look how stringy and messy it is. What a shame. Such an interesting monster, too. My stars, if an
You might be there for for any number of things: a trim, a shampoo-and-set, a perm, a dye job, or possibly a facial or manicure. But she's there for only one thing: to talk. Compliments, quirky personal anecdotes, urban legends, gossip, and romantic advice come free with the purchase of any beauty treatment. If you're lucky, it's just comic relief. If not, plot may come crashing down on your head.
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== Anime
* A very good example is Kaoru in ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]''. That she is a [[Lipstick Lesbian]] is not surprising in a [[Girls Love]] manga...
* Iggy in ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' styles Re-l's hair, and he is programmed to act like the [[Camp Gay]] version of this.
* Mireille's hairdresser in ''[[Noir]]'' is a combination of this and [[The Informant]]. The valuable intelligence that is mixed in with the gossip as Mireille gets her hair done explains why her haircuts are so expensive.
== Film ==
* Parodied in ''[[WALL-E]].'' The hair dressers were, of course, robots. They only had a set list of pre-recorded phrases they could say, and would still prattle on regardless if the customer was talking.
* Paulette of ''[[Legally Blonde]]''.
* Subverted in the gay-themed comedy ''The Broken Hearts Club''. All the characters at one point go to their hairdresser (played by Jennifer Coolidge, better known for playing Paulette in ''[[Legally Blonde]]'', a straight example of the trope) for a heart-to-heart. The main characters are pouring their hearts out with their problems; the hairdresser doesn't say
* [[Vincent Price]] briefly impersonates a [[Camp Gay]] hairdresser in ''[[Theater of Blood]]''.
* The women in ''[[Steel Magnolias]]''.
* In ''[[Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)|Drop Dead Gorgeous]]'', Amber's aunt is a gossipy woman who runs a hair salon out of her trailer and is happy to take up more than her fair share of "[[Mockumentary|documentary]]" time.
* ''Shampoo'' has Warren Beatty's character acting as one of these, and playing on the assumption that everyone thinks he's [[Camp Gay]] to seduce his female clients with ease.
== Literature ==
* The hairdresser in ''The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' is gay and like this.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
* [[Older Than Print]]: [[The Barber]] in a series of tales in the ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' is endlessly talkative, to the annoyance of his patrons, despite his constant insistence on being a very
* Partridge in ''[[Tom Jones]]'' is a schoolmaster turned barber-surgeon who is fairly talkative and has major [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] tendencies. He is compared to the barber of ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' at least once.
* In the book ''The Market'' by J. M. Steele, the [[Camp Gay]] hairdresser Carlo is stated to be this.
* Katniss's "prep team", Venia, Flavius and Octavia, in ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]''.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Appears in an episode of ''[[Mama's Family]]'' titled "Psycho Pheno-Mama". Mama and her family meet a self-claimed psychic who can supposedly channel a dead duchess' spirit, who knows all of the family's secrets. Turns out the "psychic" is actually a hairdresser who gleans all of her information from her chatty customers.
* Parodied in the Barber Shop sketch on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where, behind the customer's back, the Barber puts on a ''tape recording'' of himself chatting and cutting hair because he's afraid to do any actual cutting. He'd rather be... a lumberjack!
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* The Chilean humor show ''Jappening con Ja'' had a recurrent sketch about this, with two [[Camp Gay]] male versions of this trope.
▲== Theater ==
* Daniela in ''[[In the Heights]]''.
* The two unnamed hairdressers in ''[[The Women]]'' are merely comic relief, giving their customers the customary extravagant but undeserved compliments. It's Olga, the manicurist at the same place, who dishes out the real dirt, divulging to customers that Mr. Haines is having an affair.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The octopus in ''[[Parappa the Rapper]] 2''.
== Web Original ==
* [[Whateley Universe]] example: The girl who does Jade's hair in ''Jade 6'' is chatty about the town of [[H.P. Lovecraft|Dunwich]], only a walk away from [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]], which may mean that she has planted more than one [[Chekhov's Gun]] for later stories.
== Western Animation ==
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[[Category:Stock Characters]]
[[Category:Occupation Tropes]]
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[[Category:Extraversion Tropes]]
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