Editor's Note

To close out our series on power and public space, we invited Esther Honig to share her experience of going viral. In addition to a personal essay on Before & After, the project that put her face on millions of computer screens across the world, she proposed another take on her now-famous beauty experiment. She visited a group of salons around Kansas City, where she lives, with a simple request: “Make me over.” Here she shares four of the makeover results.