Hair Today is the first episode of the second season.
Plot[]
Tia and Tamera are introduced the group of 'cool girls' at High School. Tia thinks they are shallow and superficial and cannot stand them. Tamera on the other hand is desperate to fit in with the group. The following day, Tia, Tamera and Lisa go to a beauty parlor for makeovers. Tia chooses to keep her existing style, whilst Tamera goes for something totally different, more specifically having her hair straightened. Lisa meanwhile is told by her beautician that she has huge facial pores and has her own special cream formulated.
At school, Tamera's new hairstyle gets her accepted into the popular crowd, abandoning Tia. At first Tia lashes out at Tamera, particularly after she starts talking and acting like the group. Ray and Lisa console Tia by saying that looks aren’t that important and that Tamera will come around. At the same time the special cream formulated for Lisa causes her to break out in hives. Meanwhile Tamera is starting to see the girls for what they really are, particularly when she hears them making fun of another girl for her clothes and shoes. That same day Tia is humiliated at 'Rocket Burger' where she arrives on her own and not wanting Tamera and her group to see her there by herself, sits with a strange girl begging her to pretend to be her friend. The girl does not speak English and flees in terror with her grandparent thinking Tia is crazy.
Following this incident, Tia takes drastic measures, purchasing home perming solution and hair dye in an attempt to make herself look cool. This backfires horribly as Tia botches the procedure. Despite Lisa’s best efforts to fix it, there is little that can be done. At school the following day, Tia tries to hide her hair under a large hat, however it is revealed for all to see after Roger pulls the hat off. As expected the popular group has no issue making fun of Tia even though Tamera is one of them. Realizing that she has finally had enough of the group, Tamera angrily reprimands them and leaves the group.
At the credits, Lisa ties up Henrique in bandages like her earlier in the episode for selling her facial cream that makes her pores conditions worse. As he is tries to avoid her while wrapped up, she finds him and chases him into the back room promising to give him a "Bikini Wax"
Starring[]
Tamera Mowry as Tamera Campbell
Tim Reid as Ray Campbell
Marques Houston as Roger Evans
Guest Stars[]
Patrick Bristow as Henrique
Yunoka Doyle as Carrie
Christine Renee Miller as Michelle
Bobby McGee as Soda Man
Veronica Rodriguez as Spanish Girl
Angelina Estrada as Spanish Mother
Santos Morales as Spanish Father
Trivia[]
- Ray's cappuccino machine is the same one featured in the Full House episode "Another Opening, Another No Show".
- While at the spa, when Enrique says, "Your cheeks are outstanding", Disney Channel cuts Lisa's line "You should see me in my black jeans".
- When Tia is telling Lisa about her new hairstyle, you can tell Tia is trying hard not to laugh.
- This is the first time Tamera wears her hair straight. Correspondingly, she and Tia later begin wearing their hair straight together in the beginning of season four onward.
- When Tia is doing her hair, one of the hair products she brought is Soft & Beautiful's Just for Me No-Lye Hair Relaxer, a children's relaxer. The girl model in front of the relaxer label is 11 year-old LaTavia Roberson, former member of an R&B girl group Destiny's Child, which formed in 1997. Additionally, she was advertised with the relaxer on television in 1993.[1]
Errors[]
- The first time we see Tamera at school with her new hair style while the girls are talking to her and Tia, if you look in the back in one shot, the locker is open but in the next shot its closed.