#rivervale_lodge

Sylvi is going out of her damn mind. The Fortress of the Blackgate in Rome is swarmed with things keeping Colton busy. Yet no need for a diplomat. So she's.. home...at Rivervale. And her entire CHEER squad except for Nadeen and Lucia are mortal..and thus not supposed to socialize. The baby at the ironhawk house is taking all the focus.

So.. Sylvi has.. free time.. and nothing, NOTHING to do

Food supplies.. fully stocked.

Place relatively clean

She trains every day because she's kinda gotta with the amount of food just available. And she makes videos. Lots of videos.

Alas, she has fewer hair and faces to work on.

She did order some special effects stuff, though. Latex and so on, for scars and age and weird noses....

And at least clicks are flowing. Fewer folks on patreon though.. or at least, less money. Hard times for many

But demands are really booming for how to take care of your OWN hair. Lockins etc.

She's been showing what she can, but she only really has expertise in her own hair. She's read some stuff about other hair types, but that's it.

But yeah, that do-your-bangs-RIGHT video was a winner.

A knock at the door.

She calls out, "Come in!" She should probably get up, but she's comfy sitting cross-legged on her bed with her laptop.

Piper clips in, glancing around, then heads to Sylvi's propped open door, and gives it a tentative little knock as well. "Hey, am I interrupting you?"

"Oh, heck no, PLEASE interrupt me!" Sylvi looks downright relieved. "What's up?" she adds as she gestures for Piper to make herself comfortable on the bed or the chair or wherever.

She steps in and takes a peek around, then turns the chair to face Sylvi and relaxes. "Oh, um, this is for you..." She offers out a small gift bag.

A blink. "For me? For...um...what?" She tentatively accepts the bag. Piper might note a disembodied zombie hand meandering around in a reptile tank.

She glances around, and does a double-take at the hand. "Uh...." Back to the question. "Well, I wanted to thank you for your quick thinking the other night. If you hadn't been on the ball, Adam might have lost his fingers for good." Inside is a small bottle of oil, labeled, "Lavender Love" in script, and a second that says "Very Violette". "I've been working on scented oils, and thought maybe you'd like to try a couple out. Um... bath oils, or, you know, if you happen to take them up north with you." A small smile.

"OOooooooh...." Sylvi's eyes light up at the sight of the labels. "Oh, nice! Thanks, Piper!" She offers the satyr a hug.

"You totally know you didn't have to, though, right?"

She grins and gives her a hug back! "And... maaaybe... it was also a bribe? Like, I know you do makeup... but do you ever do haircuts?" Sitting back down, she says, "Like, see..." And tilts her head just SLIGHTLY, and poof, there goes her hair cascading into her eyes. "I don't know what to do with this length... I know, vanity in a Pandemic, but...."

"And I learned a LONG time ago, NOT to try to cut my own bangs... " A mutter. "Zane still won't let me live that one down..."

A laugh. "Okay, that kind of bribe I'm totally happy with taking. Let me get my stuff together. Just the bangs?"

"And...um, you know I'm not certified or anything, right? I'm good, but you're letting me do this at your own risk, 'kay?"

"Yeah, you see, the thing is, if you pull your hair straight to measure it, when you let go after snipping, it goes back to the CURLED length." A wince.

"I mean, I can help it re-grow if it goes really bad...."

She laughs. "Been there, done that."

"I was only 8 in my defense!" She laughs as well. "And cutting around the horns is a whole 'nother proposition. Just a trim would be great though."

Sylvi gathers towels, spray bottle, combs, shears....

"I'd have killed for Spring Magics back then. Instead, if you look at my momma's albums? THat was the summer of Hats."

"Ha! Well, nothing wrong with a good hat. Or scarves. Do them right, and they can double as face masks."

"Okay, let's see...." and she gets to work prepping Piper's hair.

"Oh! Oh, wait, before I start...we could do a video of it if you want. Like, for my channel. We don't have to, we could just talk, too."

She looks thoughtful. "Sure, I don't mind. But... is it weird if I ask you just to cut what you think looks good? I don't much like mirrors. Just call me reverse self-conscious." A small chuckle.

"Oh. Sure, yeah...." she tilts her head a bit, getting a sense of Piper's face shape. "Yeah, I can do that. And...oh, crap, we can't record. If we do, I'll get hate comments for not social distancing. Well...we can still do the haircut. Okay, close your eyes...." And the spraying begins.

"Oh, wait, just record it and put it up later? I mean, it can't last forever..."

"Or back date it and post it as new content." A sneaky grin.

She closes her eyes obediently.

"Put a calendar in the background and flip it up a couple months ago..." A snicker.

Sylvi pauses, then grins. "I like the way you think. Open your eyes." And a few minutes later her recording gear is all set up, she hits record, and starts into what sounds like an automatic spiel, "Hey-yo! It's me, Styling-Sylvia, and today I am SO glad we're out of lock-down, and I've got a willing victim whose hair just got way out of control while we were all so very under control."

She obediently gives her hair a little shake, the blond curls flying about.

"Introduce yourself!" Sylvi says, perhaps covering that she doesn't remember Piper's mundane name.

She turns to face the camera and gives a winning smile, and, "My name is Piper, and I have a curls problem."

"Hi, Piper!" Sylvi chimes in obediently. "And yeah you do."

"Okay, so Piper's got hair that a lot of us would really just die or kill for, but right now she wants to murder it cuz it gets in her way. And I know a lot of you know about the peril of Quarantine Bangs. So...we're gonna do a little repair work...."

And she rattles on as she works.

Surely, this will gather many to view when it is uploaded, for the dreaded quarantine bangs have plagued many

After a little bit she says, "I'm going to edit this and jump around with effects and stuff, so we can still talk about whatever, I'll just cut it out."

"So, do you prefer, like, wash-and-go, or are you good with product and primping? Cuz with the curls, it matters how you're going to treat it."

"I tend to be a little more wash and go, maybe a little product to keep down the frizz, and girl, if you ain't got curls, you do NOT know frizz. This humidity is killin' me!"