"If I wanted to go get a job tomorrow at a shop, I could. But that's not where my heart is. It's time that I own something."
Gina Norris is a hairstylist working under her jerkass boss, Jorge. After having another argument with said boss, she decides that she can't stand him anymore and quits. Gina then decides to buy a shop of her own, but problems arise, which predictably include money, customers who don't know her, her snarky employees, and even family issues. With the help of her best friend Lynn, Gina works to overcome these issues in order to keep her business afloat.
This film contains examples of:
- Ambiguously Gay: The girls discuss this about James until Lynn proves otherwise.
- Comically Oversized Butt: When a woman walks into the shop with small shorts and a big butt, Ida jokes about eating the woman's butt in order to survive if they were ever stranded.Ida: See now if a plane crashed, we could eat for days.
- Cool Old Lady: Gina's mother-in-law is basically her mother and confidant.
- Mistaken for Racist: Jorge, in the beginning, because due to his foreign accent he pronounces the word "moniker" a certain way.
- Mr. Fanservice: James, and Gina exploits his fanserviceness to attract clients. Indeed, the queue of customers reaches up in the street.
- No Bisexuals: Throughout the film, Gina and Lynn's friends debate whether or not the new guy they're all crushing on (James) is gay based on his feminine traits (he likes to watch Oprah, emphasize with women on topics and hates violence). By the film's climax, when the girls see that James and Lynn are sharing a kiss on the dance floor together, they all immediately quip that "James' is gay alright! He's happier than ever!" and they all finally believe that he is straight. Nobody In-Universe discusses or mentions the possibility of bisexuality.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Gina's Mother In Law has lost both her husband and her son (Gina's late husband).
- Real Men Wear Pink: James does hair, watches Oprah, carries a "man-bag", wants to get rid of some "unruly" chest hairs, but also gives Darnelle's Domestic Abuser a beatdown and comments "I hate violence". It should be noted that the girls making fun of James' man-bag is
Hilarious in Hindsight since purses are Older Than They Think being invented in the 16th century when clothes had no pockets and male aristocratics wore it on the hip to carry around their money. - Real Women Have Curves: This trope is discussed and there is even some commentary on plastic surgery.
- Token White: Lynn, and at the beginning the other girls aren't fine with it.
- Troubled, but Cute: James.
- Where da White Women At?: It's even lampshaded.
- "Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: after Gina gives the bank teller a makeover in an attempt to persuade her to approve her loan:Gina: "Do you like it?"Elizabeth: "Oh!" *hugs*Gina: *laugh* "I guess that's a 'yes,' or is that the way you fight?"
