On her travels, Nguyễn Phương Linh observed a uniformity in the types of work available to working-class Vietnamese diaspora women in cities around the world. Beauty parlours and nail salons became locations where the artist could hear her mother tongue spoken. In this video work, the artist renders the beauty parlour—a site for the maintenance of standards of beauty—as a still life. Smoke fills the room, filtering our vision, while the ambient noise of laser treatments for the removal of dark pigmentation can be heard. This draws attention to the constant conditioning and desire for certain physical attributes. The video is shot through a veil of smoke or curtain. Its opaque whiteness is a metaphor for the blind spots in history—beyond official narratives, the more one looks, the blinder one becomes.