“One shelf was wigs, carefully positioned on Styrofoam heads. Blondes,
brunettes, redheads from soft rose to flame. Every style from flower
child to Dolly Parton. A wall of cosmetics: lipstick with all new,
gleaming, fresh tips, standing in rows like large-caliber bullets . . .
blusher, body powders, eyeliner, prefitted fingernails, polish, false
eyelashes. Makeup table with a round padded stool, tiny row of frosted
light bulbs surrounding another mirror, this one three-paneled.”

—Andrew Vachss, Hard Candy, 1989.