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{{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 interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo, then I don't know what things are coming to. In my business you meet so many interesting people - Bobby pins, please - but the most interersting ones are the monsters. Oh, dear, that will never stay. We'll just have to have a permanemanent.|[[Bugs Bunny]], in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}dLdKU4JCYqg ''Water, Water Every Hare'']] (1952)}}
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 & Manga ==
* A very good example is Kaoru in ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]''. That she is a [[Lipstick Lesbian]] is not surprising in a [[Girls Love]] manga...
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* 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 *anything* beyond "Sit up straight" and "Turn your head to the side." At the end of the sequence, one character compliments her for always knowing the right thing to say, to which she modestly replies, "It's a gift."
* [[Vincent Price]] briefly impersonates a [[Camp Gay]] hairdresser in ''[[Theater of Blood]]''.
* The women in ''[[Steel Magnolias]]''.
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* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', Rincewind acts like one of these... while shearing a sheep.
* [[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 quite man.
* 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]]''.
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* Hilda on ''[[Ugly Betty]]''.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' there was a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] set in a salon full of chatty hairdressers. And of course there's [[The Nanny]] herself.
* Mot, the blue-
* Vanessa from ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]''
* In ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* Shelly the hair-styling nanite in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]".
* The Chilean humor show ''Jappening con Ja'' had a recurrent sketch about this, with two [[Camp Gay]] male versions of this trope.
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== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', where Peggy, feeling dejected, decides to spend Thanksgiving with her [[Always Camp|hairdresser]] under the assumption that he is lonely and family-less, but he turns out to a have a wife and baby.
** Also used in "My Hair Lady" when Luanne and Bill become hairstylists at Hottyz. Bill gets fired (he's a really good stylist but he wasn't gay) and Luanne can't afford the chair on her own so they end up working for Hank's barber, Jack.
* [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] does this twice in his cartoons with Gossamer and a [[Mad Scientist]]. In ''[[wikipedia:Hair-Raising Hare|Hair-Raising Hare]]'', he acts as a chatty ''manicurist''. On YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7kEBLtx5g at 4:30]. In ''[[wikipedia:Water, Water Every Hare|Water, Water Every Hare]]'' (quoted above) he acts as a talkative hairdresser.
** On YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCoumFSKFU at 3:45]. He also does this character in ''Rabbit of Seville'' with Elmer Fudd in the chair, with one major difference: he ''sings'' it.
* In an episode of ''[[Sonic Underground]]'', the chatty hairdresser is actual an unwitting spy for Robotnik, using hypnotism to lull her customers into spilling their true feelings for the dictator.
* [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in "Homer Scissorhands", a season 22 episode of [[The Simpsons]]. Homer takes up a job as a hairdresser, but having to pay attention to all his clients' stories takes its toll on him.
* [[Parodied Trope|Parodied]] in ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''—in one episode, Daffy styles Bug's wig (he's [[Disguised in Drag]]) while Bug confides the entire subplot in him. Daffy proceeds to give him Chatty Hairdresser advice. No [[Mythology Gag]] about "interesting monsters", sadly.
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