Gotta catch them rays {OPEN}

[Jenny]

"So freaking weird." Jenny commented for what felt like the 100th time that day.

"Cheese fries are literally the best thing about this world." Jenny said with a look of longing in the general direction of the food court. "They're potatoes covered in cheese, obviously, although..." She started to think about the idea of fries made of cheese, and the part of her that she almost starved most of the time in order to keep looking as good as she did almost moaned in longing. "Ok, fries made out of cheese should be a thing."

They walked inside, and Jenny took a moment to take it all in; her mothership, her church. She was home. She turned to Lorelei with a smirk. "Honey, if we max out Daddy's card then he'll just ask Mum for more money. She's a queen, he's her champion, it's fine." She looked around, considering the options. "Now, where to start..." She turned slightly and glanced at Lorelei, noticing a hair salon just behind her. "Perfect. Come on." She grabbed her sister's arm and began to drag her across the mall and into the salon. "You need layers and highlights."

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

By now, "so freaking weird" might as well be emblazoned on Lorelei's chest. She certainly didn't mind, and she'd pretty well just accepted it. That and she was so focused on the idea of cheese fries: fries coated in cheese, also fries made of cheese. "We'll have to make them a thing," Lorelei decided, nodding. It was a little odd, and kind of fun, to actually have something in common with Jenny. Plus, it was slightly surprising to hear that Jenny was into something that was obviously so bad for you. Unless maybe they were good for you? They didn't sound like they would be, but then again, Trenale was a place of magic, so who knows what was happening?

Lorelei walked a few more feet, still gawking, almost getting ahead. She opened her mouth to protest that Gaston wasn't Mom's champion, Lorelei's Dad was, but before she could, she got grabbed. "Wait, what are layers and highlights?" she asked. "Those sound painful!"

And the acrid smell coming from the hair salon wasn't helping with that either. If anything, it just made Lorelei a little more scared by the whole proceeding.

[Jenny]

That actually wasn't a bad idea... Jenny couldn't boil an egg, never mind figure out how to create and cook literal cheese fries, but she nodded in agreement with Lorelei, figuring Todd probably did. She'd get him to put it on one of the menus in one of the places he worked. Or he'd set Lorelei on her and get her to persuade him.

She grinned as they entered the hair salon, her grip firmly on Lorelei's arm to stop her making a run for it. "It doesn't hurt, and it is going to make all the difference. A few highlights will bring out your eyes and skin tone, and some layers will frame your face." She turned to Lorelei, taking some of her hair in her hands and placing it in different positions around her face. They were approached by a hairdresser, and Jenny dropped Lorelei's hair, taking her shoulders and pushing her in front of her, fixing on her most charming smile.

"Britney, hi. I need you to work your magic on this one. I'm thinking layers, highlights, and maybe a fringe, what do you think?" Britney grabbed Lorelei's chin, turning her face and of course agreeing with everything Jenny said. She began to lead Lorelei to a chair.

"Trust me, you are going to love the results." Jenny told Lorelei, dropping into the next chair and checking her own reflection in the mirror.

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

Lorelei was forced into a chair and trying not to have weird flashbacks to times spent with her mother and various maids back home. For the most part, people just ignored Lorelei. She was odd, she was the youngest "princess" of six (or in there; again, fuzzy), and she was definitely an illegitimate child. Plus there was the magic, which still unnerved some people, even if Lorelei wasn't nearly as good at it as, say, Merlin or Meredith or even Mordred, for that matter.

"I don't even know what half those words mean!" she protested. She knew framing her face and some of it. Her hair was already being dropped, landing about her shoulders. At least Lorelei had washed it recently, though judging by the expression on Britney's face, not well.

Lorelei stared at her reflection while Britney started readjusting her hair. Her gaze slid a bit to the side, seeing Jenny there, looking as confident and radiant as ever. "Do you think I could look more like Mom?" she asked, considering her reflection. If anyone would know about looks, it would be Jenny, right? "I mean, I do kinda look like her, right?"

[Jenny]

Jenny was admiring her reflection, considering a change herself, and could barely hear Lorelei's protests. She wondered briefly if she should go blonde, and picked up a colour swatch on the counter in front of her and held it up to her face, before shaking her head and putting it down. Nope, she was definitely a brunette.

"You don't need to know what the words mean, honey, that's what me and Britney are here for. You just sit back, relax and enjoy the experience. Britney is the best in Trenale." She glanced over at Lorelei's hair and then up at Britney. "Full wash, style, color and blow dry I think." She said, raising an eyebrow. "It's on Daddy, of course." Britney nodded with a smile, turning her attention back to Lorelei.

Jenny turned in her swivel chair at Lorelei's question, crossing her legs and leaning on the arm of the chair. She tilted her head slightly, studying Lorelei. "Sure," she said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "You've got Mum's bone structure and colouring, with a bit of styling and some decent make-up, you'd definitely have the mum vibe going on." She turned back to the mirror, studying her own face again. "You're lucky. I'm all Daddy."

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

"Color?" repeated Lorelei. "Like, blue or orange or something?" she was tempted to ask if her hair could maybe go rainbow. Except that definitely wouldn't make her look much like mom, which led to that next bit. She kept studying as Jenny kept talking, almost absently. Same bone structure, some of the same coloring. They had the same eyes too, though, to be fair, her dad's eyes weren't much different either. Lorelei wasn't sure she was really as pretty as her mother had been. She was too goofy looking for that.

The last comment had Lorelei turning slightly toward Jenny, much to Britney's chagrin. "That's not that bad though!" she insisted. "Gaston's really handsome and dashing and all that, which is totally something worth having. Plus, you definitely have boobs, and last i checked, Gaston is definitely lacking in the chest department." By this point, Britney was looking at Jenny wondering who the space alien she'd found and brought in for the salon was, while also looking at the hair and probably noting the utter lack of care locks that had this much potential had been given.

[Jenny]

"Ooh, blue, now there's an idea..." Jenny turned and smirked at Britney. "What do you think, Brit, a nice electric blue for my little sister?" They both laughed before Jenny looked back at her sister. "No, honey, I think just a little lighter than your natural. It'll look so good on you."

She raised an eyebrow as Jenny starting listing her Dad's good points. "Oh my God, do not get a crush on my dad. That is way too weird." She turned back to the mirror and put her hands on her own shoulder, turning and considering her reflection with a resigned look. "I have man shoulders." She said with a huff. "And my Dad might be good looking, obviously, but I have his man features, and despite my fantastic boobs, that's just not a good look."

She shrugged, turning away from the mirror and back to Britney. "We should get started, she'll probably take a while, right?" Britney smiled, and led the way over towards the sinks. Jenny smiled at Lorelei. "Go on - time to start this epic makeover."

[Lorelei Summer-Lac]

Actually Lorelei didn't think blue would look that bad. She was already trying to picture it by looking in the mirror and doing some mental comparisons, but apparently Jenny had a plan already. At this point, Lorelei had already figured that she was just going to end up doing whatever her sister wanted in this respect. Most of it wouldn't stick anyway, and she could always fix it later with magic or something.

Though hearing Jenny talking down about her looks did make Lorelei frown. "I don't think you look manly,' she was tempted to point out the boobs again, but she figured they'd done enough discussion about that for two half-sisters at a beauty salon (though Lorelei wasn't sure what the protocol was there; weirdly salon talk did not show up in her mother's ettiquette lessons).

"I also do not have a crush on your dad, so no worries there," she assured, before bracing down. Britney was already descending, and Lorelei had a feeling that she was about to experience something... odd.

{feel free to go through the makeover if you wanna keep going; we could also maybe end around here if you wanted? Not saying we have to, just suggesting}

[Jenny]

"It's fine, I work it." Jenny said with a smirk to herself in the mirror. She rolled her eyes as Lorelei spoke again. "Good, keep it that way, that would just be way too weird."

She grabbed a magazine as Britney began her work on Lorelei, quickly lost in an article about eyeliner, and unaware of everything that was happening to her sister. It didn't matter, she trusted Britney with her life, and she knew that Lorelei was going to look amazing once Brit was finished with her.

Mum would be so proud right now

{fin?}