1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (73 page)

450 PERM PEOPLE'S HAIR.
Some folks just really want to look like poodles. Who are you to stop them? Getting your hair permed in a salon can cost a couple hundred bucks. Buy a $10 at-home kit, do a trusting friend's hair for free, and tell her to recommend your services when people compliment her on her curls. Charge $75 a whack and you're still offering a huge discount.

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451 STRAIGHTEN OTHER PEOPLE'S HAIR.
Getting your hair chemically relaxed (or straightened) is damaging to tresses and can cost big bucks. Buy a quality hair straightener at a beauty supply store (try
SallyBeauty.com
) and offer your temporary, less harmful service for $20 a client. Around prom season, offer group specials and you'll be busy.

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452 PUT IN HAIR EXTENSIONS.
These days, everyone from Brett Michaels to those nitwits on
The Hills
have hair extensions. Getting them put in at a salon can cost big bucks. Quality, real-hair extensions can cost you some start-up, but people will pay you a lot more for them. So turn your shorthaired friend into a longhaired beauty, snap a few pictures, and post fliers around town. You'll be elbow deep in hair in no time (that's supposed to sound like a good thing).

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453 WAX PEOPLE.
This one is tricky. You may end up neatening eyebrows — or having to give a Brazilian bikini wax to a 400-pound woman. It's best to start practicing on friends since you can burn people — and you really don't want to see that 400-pound woman with the burnt hoo-ha mad.

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454 GIVE PEDICURES.
People pay up to $50 to have a professional give their feet and toenails a spa treatment. Buy yourself a home foot spa (these go for anywhere between $20 and $200), and offer pedicures to your friends and family. Your initial investments beyond the spa will include nail polishes, foot creams, brushes, and pumice stones. If you're brave, you can advertise your services — but beware of the funky-footed general public.

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455 GIVE MANICURES.
As pedicures beautify the toes, manicures beautify the hands. Break out the nail file, emery board, and polish. You might be able to squeeze a few extra “discretionary” dollars out of metrosexuals looking for a nail-buff on the down-low — although these men are a dying breed.

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