Jaime in Fabulous
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Nothing remarkable happens. She gets a courtesy reminder call from the stylist's office.

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And she enters that office at an appropriate time!

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Tanya shoos out a prior client, who emerges looking like a peacock gijinka with an addiction to platinum, and waves Jaime in. "Tell me about your current look," she says, eyeing Jaime up and down. "How'd you choose it?"

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“I have an alternative alphabet that uses curlicues; the curlicues on my outfit are all quotes from Hamlet or words. I strongly prefer metallic colors over non-metallic colors, and I make darkness, so this color scheme seemed appropriate. I liked the elegance of a ‘flowers and feathers’ motif, and I considered going with something that invoked arachnids or cephalopods but it seemed more difficult to make that work with wings. I dance: whatever I’m wearing needs a range of motion, and it needs to look good while I’m doing a pirouette.”

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"Good. Thoughtful," says Tanya, adjusting her lighting setup. "Let's see the darkness. And a pirouette."

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Jaime does a triple pirouette. Darkness trails from her wingtips; she produces a modestly sized blob of it once she’s finishes pirouetting.

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Tanya peers at it, sticks her hand in it. "Nice," she says. "Can it stick to things?"

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“It can.”

She waves a hand through her darkness blob and makes a thin film of shadow stick to her hand, demonstratively,

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"How many of those can you do, yea glammed up?"

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“I know that I can do at least two, at their maximum size; they get much larger. I’m not sure how many independent smaller darknesses I could manage.”

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"Find out, that's gonna matter cosmetically."

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Jaime starts spamming mini-blobs as quick as she can get ‘em, scooting them off towards the side of the room.

“Any initial thoughts, while I do that?”

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"You can keep your color scheme. I think you're overusing feathers in your accessories - they're fine on your wings and shoulders, your earrings will probably go farther if they do the flower motif than the feather one. I want to experiment a lot with your hair, is that your natural color -?"

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“It is.”

(Darkness blob, darkness blob, darkness blob, darkness blob, darkness -)

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"Okay, looks like you have enough of those to play with them. It's good you have natural dark hair, keeping your natural hair color is a good idea under most circumstances. Let's get some reference photos and start tweaking, shall we?" She starts taking pictures from every angle.

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Jaime does not object to this process! She stops producing darkness.

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"Can you get the darkness to form a gradient?" Tanya asks while taking photos.

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She tries creating a blob of darkness which is mildly dim on top and gradually darkens down to a more customary inky black at its base.

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This works. "Perfect. I want to give you a dark halo that fuzzes out, and a few more dark accessories, and otherwise play up more of the metallics than the black in the rest of the outfit. Shiny tats, maybe, though some people find them high-maintenance, do you think you can do touchups on them two-three times a day?"

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“Twice a day is manageable, thrice a day isn’t.”

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"Right after dancing and after sleeping would probably do it, plus any special occasion you want your magic souped up for."

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“That would be fine.”

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Tanya pulls references from a giant binder on a shelf of giant binders. "Some people do inlays but I don't recommend them, they cost points. You can't do conventional ink in metallics but temporary tats work. Here's an infosheet about how to make them so they stick longer." She hands over a pamphlet from a rack of pamphlets while flipping through her references. "Right, see this style of flower? Obviously don't copy it exactly, you have your own flower going on, but try two-dimensionalizing your flower in this kind of style with your metallic gradient. Stick one on your arm here -" Tanya taps her. "See if the magic bites."

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Jaime follows these instructions! Her arm acquires a stylized rhododendron blossom - the petals start rose gold in the center, then silver, then gold, then silver again at the edges, and the stylized stamens in the center of the flower are also gold.

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The magic, in Tanya's choice of words, bites.

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