"The mall is the best place to build a brand because what the big salons outside have spent years to do, I've done in barely 18 months," says Mr Oaikhinan.
Rocio Araujo, who is originally from Ecuador, is co-owner of a beauty salon in Kissimmee, outside Orlando.
She turned to wave, and when she felt she was no longer on display, stood a moment outside the salon before deciding to walk down the street, instead.
Realism's radical stance was best summed up by Gustave Courbet, who set up his own pavilion outside the Salon of 1855, dedicated to Le Réalisme, and famously declared, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one".
As she was speaking, the man in the picture was lying in the morgue of Kings County Hospital; he had been killed by a car outside her salon on a balmy evening just before Halloween.
An example of the industry's growing tensions can usually be seen on Fridays on the West Side of Manhattan where protesters picket outside a salon at Amsterdam Avenue and 67th Street.
"This area is very safe, but many of the salons are outside this area".
Eric Garner, 43, was arrested by police outside a beauty salon on Staten Island under suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes.
Polly Truscott Dear Diary: I recently noticed a sign outside a hair salon on East 40th Street: "Relaxing $75" — further proof living in Manhattan is so costly.
"I've known him forever, and I don't see that changing," said Gustavo Araya, or Tavo, who has been cutting Campbell's hair since he set up his first salon under a mango tree outside his parents' home.
