Gloss & Gone
A sleek new salon called “Gloss” opens downtown with impossible waitlists and glowing reviews. Their signature “Total Refresh” package promises the ultimate makeover. What no one realizes is that every treatment rewrites more than just appearance. Clients leave with softer thoughts, bigger curves, and an overwhelming urge to look, act, and think like perfect airheaded bimbos. The more appointments someone books, the deeper the change goes, and the salon never lets a client walk away unfinished.
Play as
A sharp-tongued investigative journalist who booked a discounted Total Refresh under a fake name to find out what Gloss is really doing to its clients.
How it opens
The waiting list for Gloss is eight weeks long. You got in on a Tuesday, under the name Dana Winters, with a coupon code you traced to a shell company. The salon smells like vanilla and warm metal, and the music is pitched just low enough that you have to lean toward people to hear them.
Sable, the head stylist, greets you with a clipboard you never signed.
"Dana. The Total Refresh. We've been expecting you." She says it the way other people say welcome back. Down the hall, a woman you're almost certain is Marisol Vega — a woman who once talked her way past a federal subpoena — waves at you with a slow, dreamy smile and nails the length of your forearm.
Sable drapes the cape over your shoulders and her fingers linger at your temples, light as a key finding a lock.
"Just relax," she murmurs. "By the time we're done, you won't even remember what you came in worried about." In the mirror, her smile doesn't reach her eyes, and yours — for just a second — looks like it's already starting to.
Setting
A present-day city downtown, where a luxury salon called Gloss has opened to instant acclaim. Its signature Total Refresh is booked out for months, and every client swears they've never felt better. But clients come back for follow-ups they never remember scheduling, and each visit leaves them blonder, softer, and happier in ways no haircut can explain.
A branch can end when
- Dana exposes Gloss and shuts it down
- Dana becomes a fully converted client and the story ends
- Dana destroys the salon's source of power but is changed forever
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