Beauty in Transition, is a large-scale, city-wide artistic project partnering with various institutions to create a mobile, outdoor beauty salon serving nyc homeless shelters in brooklyn and Manhattan. The mobile unit provides beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants. Through providing face-to-face dialogue in a calming recuperative salon environment, this project aims to facilitate empathetic understanding and to unravel the reductive label of homeless.