Behind The Story: Chicks At The Beauty Salon

Once upon a time, Carla received a gift of a whimsical painting that depicted a carefree chicken in a snazzy black hat and a flapper dress. The painting was done by a local artist named Ernest Lee, aka "The Chicken Man."

A few years later, Carla casually mentioned to her sister Anita that she someday would like to have "The Chicken Man" depict four chickens sitting under hair dryers in a beauty salon. 

Carla's bright idea was to symbolize the four sisters, (Selina, Zelbra, Anita and Carla) through the metaphorical representation of the four chickens. One can only hope they would not squawk about it later!

Anita, feeling inspired by Carla's whimsical vision, decided to dabble with drawing a cartoon chicken under a hair dryer.

A few days later, Anita digitally duplicated her chicken in a range of chicken colors. She wanted to make sure those four chickens were distinct, like a chicken rainbow. No offense to her sisters, of course!

After three years of Anita's on-and-off chicken animations, she finally presented Carla with her four chickens in a beauty salon. But alas, it wasn't exactly what Carla had envisioned. Anita had to tweak the color of the hair dryers and reorganize the layout from horizontal to vertical to square with different color backgrounds.

However, despite Anita's revisions, the project once again found its way to the back burner. 

Then one day, after three more years passed, as Anita was watching a YouTube video by the famous Sean Cannell, who was suggesting creators should consider making content for children—a brilliant idea hatched in her mind—a picture book titled "Chicks At The Beauty Salon."

Now, this wasn't necessarily a children's book, but it was kid-friendly and rhymed. Words flowed from Anita's pen, but the struggle lay in creating the actual illustrations. Even with the help of artificial intelligence, it seemed to take ages.

But at long last, Anita completed her project that she was finally satisfied with. 

Anita, also known as A.C. McCants, plans to hire a cartoonish artist to create another version of her picture book, appropriately titled "Chicks At The Beauty Salon: The Cartoon Edition."

Meanwhile, Carla still holds on to her quest to contact "The Chicken Man" for a painting of four chickens sitting under the hair dryers in a beauty salon. These paintings, she planned, would be a quirky addition to their mom, Mary Ann and sister, Zelbra's beauty salon.

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