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The three members of my prep team introduce themselves as Venia, Falvius and Octavia, and they're so strange looking, I pray to every religion I can think of that they just make me look like a slightly better version of myself. Venia has short, spiked up blue hair and golden tattoos above her eyebrows. I shudder at how painful it must have been to get tattoos so close to your eyes. Unlike Effie's pink wig, Venia's hair looks like her real hair, but dyed. Flavius, overall would look pretty normal if it weren't for his bright orange curls and purple lipstick. However, I'm in love with the color of Octavia's hair, it's a pretty, glossy auburn, not at all similar to the color of Flavius's, but what ruins her for me is that her entire body has been dyed a shade of pea green.
"Hello Primrose," Venia trills. "My name is Venia, and I'm going to do your makeup. Flavius is going to work on your hair, and Octavia will do your nails. But before we do that, we have to get you cleaned up and take off any excess hair. Sound good?"
"Prim," I say.
"I'm sorry?" Flavius asks.
"Call me Prim," I instruct them. "And yes, that sounds fine."
I've actually been a bit excited for this part. I know Katniss would hate it if she were here, but what can I say? I get so few opportunities to look nice. The preps think that I'm clean enough, since I only showered about an hour ago, but they put me in a tub full of warm water, oils, dried flowers and herbs I recognize from our house. They say that they're trying to get my skin relaxed... I don't even know what that means.
After I've been in the water for a while, they scrub my skin with a brush and a grainy mixture that smells like sugar and coffee. When that's over, they have me come out of the water and I'm blasted dry by a vent on the floor. Once I'm dried, they slather too many creams to count on my body and in my hair. They hand me a robe to put on, and I'm led to a metal table where I'm instructed to lie down.
The way I see it, being waxed is preparing me for all of the pain that is sure to be brought to me in the arena. They rip hair off my legs, arms, even by eyebrows. I try to distract myself from the torture by humming songs from when I was little that Dad used to sing. The Valley Song, Deep in the Meadow, the Hanging Tree... Eventually they're done, and I'm allowed to put my robe back on. They take me to a director's chair and I actually start to relax.
They chat to each other while they're making me over, about this party or that celebrity. I go back to humming the songs. When I run out of songs, I glance at my nails, the only part of my makeover that I can watch. Octavia has buffed my nails so they're all uniform oval shapes. She paints a clear polish over them, then leans back and says she's done. I stare at the ground and watch tiny pieces of my hair float to the floor, kissing the concrete with blonde. When Flavius is done cutting my hair, he starts to style it. I don't know what he's doing, but my hair feels hot.
Roughly a half hour later, Flavius and Venia are done with my hair and face, and Octavia hands me a mirror like the one Dad used to use for shaving. There's no doubt I look better, but I still look a bit like myself, and more importantly, my skin, hair or makeup isn't any unnatural color. The heat I felt on my hair was called a "flatiron," and it turned my wavy hair straight. As for my makeup, the dark circles from my lack of sleep have been taken away, my cheeks are flushed, my eyes look bigger and my lips, softer.
"Thank you so much, guys," I say. "I love it."
"I think she's ready for Cinna," Octavia tells Venia and Flavius.
"Who's Cinna?" I ask.
"Your stylist," Venia tells me.
They leave the room and I'm alone for a few minutes. While they're gone, I run my fingers through my hair. Straightening it has made it considerably softer, and I can't get enough of it. When the door opens, a man walks in. I'm expecting him to be tattooed, altered and dyed, liked my prep team. But what in the Capitol has been as I expected it to be?
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