"...blue streak," Rosa concluded, nodded, smoothing out the tail with her hand against his back a little. Was she sensing fear? She thought so, and she kinda loved it. "Just relax, dude. You're going to look fly as hell by the time I'm done with you."

But she'd walk him through what she was doing, she could at least give him that. "Okay, first, we've got to bleach it. Otherwise, the dye won't take because your hair's too dark." She reached over, snapped on some gloves, grabbed the bleach, mixed it up a little. "It won't be an issue for the tail, except maybe at the base, but when I do the top, it's going to burn like a bitch. Don't freak out, though, that's normal."

And then it was the point of no return, as she started squirting and brushing the bleach onto the tail.