Untangling the Lore of Devilish Hairdresser 

If you have a flash-enabled browser (like Palemoon or Waterfox Classic) with a working copy of flash installed, you can still play all of these games! Hairdresser: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/devilish_hairdresser/devilish_hairdresser.swf?gp=1 Pet Salon: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/devilish_pet_salon/devilish_pet_salon_awards.swf?gp=1 Stylist: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/DevilishStylist/devilish_stylist.swf?gp=1 Trick: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/devilish_trick/devilish_trick.swf?gp=1 Christmas: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/devilish_christmas/devilish_christmas.swf?gp=1 Valentine: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/devilish_valentine/devilish_valentine.swf?gp=1 Cat: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/DevilishCat/devilish_cat.swf?gp=1 Cooking: www8.agame.com/games/flash/d/devilish_cooking/devilish_cooking.swf?gp=1 Candy House (broken?): www8.agame.com/mirror/flash/d/Devilish_candy_house/Devilish_Candy_House_130221_1537.swf?gp=1

Tbh I personally think the reason Devil is wearing the fake devil horns is cause her real horns are supporting her pigtail poofs

Girlie just made her own fanfiction and we all sat down for an hour enraptured. Ladies and gentlemen, the power of shipping.

My headcanon is that Devil tried to flirt with Angel before Devilish Hairdresser, but Angels and Devils have, like, different "courting rituals" but neither is aware of the difference, so Angel never understood that she was being flirted with, and Devil thought Angel was rejecting her but was too nice/pitied her too much to say it directly. That's where her resentment starts

This reminds me of that post that's like "when I was a kid I had a crush on a girl in my class and I didn't know what to do about it so I just sent her a note that said 'get out of my school'"

The fact that Neil Gaiman is OBVIOUSLY in the first game was a clear sign of a love story from the very beginning.

I always saw Devil as a needy gremlin of a girlfriend who enjoys bothering the prim and proper Angel at work. She’s a demon, so causing mischief is the norm for her, and the sabotage is more out of teasing and wanting attention than actual malice. I saw the look on her face when she noticed the sabotage as more mildly annoyed than anything, and since she’s an angel she was probably able to fix the ruined hair/outfits/pets/etc fairly quickly. Despite the upset reaction, I think she’s just over dramatic rather than being genuinely sad. But I really like your interpretation too!

I find it hilarious that that angel getting kidnapped was the catalyst for their break-up when I interrupted that as some weird kinky thing that the girls just do sometimes. (hence why angel didn't give a shit about being kidnapped.)

4:18 It’s strangely mindblowing to realize that flash game websites had normal corporate environments where they did things like making powerpoints. This is obvious now as an adult, but as a kid, stand-alone flash games just seemed to appear out of nowhere. This powerpoint is the flash game company equivalent of seeing your teacher in the grocery store.

Tbh instead of Angel being completely stupid and oblivious I sort of interpreted her as playing dumb until the point where Devil fucked up enough to be directly caught and she couldn’t pretend to not notice anymore. She hates Devil pushing things that far and forcing her hand when she sends her to angel prison, and that’s why she’s crying on the game over screen.

theyre literally girlfriends and i dont care what anyone has to say about it. they are *LOVERS.*

The Devil girl trying to mess up someone's hair while the Angel girl isn't looking until she got caught red handed never failed me to make me entertained as a kid. Those "don't get caught" genre in the realm of Flash games is simple and unique for its time, but it can be downright strange sometimes, especially with those cursed "kissing" games.

My personally theory all my life was that Angel loved Devil the whole time but they had a teasing sort of relationship. I think Devil is the more airheaded one, thinking she is being slick messing with Angel, but Angel has been here a million times before, she knows what Devil is going to do. She doesn’t just tolerate Devil, she loves having her around. Devil has always added some mischief to Angels “perfect” life, and Angel loves it. That’s why she does that little smirk and eyebrow raise, I see you Angel. Angel has had feelings for Devil the whole time, yes, but Devil herself has a hard time admitting it. She always tries to be around Angel and cause some mischief and at this point she has broken through Angels defenses, she is smitten. I think that the devilish Halloween game actually comes before the hairdresser game. Devil is trying to do her Devil duty and cause mischief, and Angel isn’t having it, at first. (She is still in her perfect Angel era guys, she needs to lesbian lover to show her the joys of life and being ‘bad’) Then by devilish hairdresser she has come around and Devil has broken through her defenses. She keeps Devil around because she likes her and doesn’t mind her mischief all that much, sometimes it’s annoying but she gets more used to it. Then Christmas happens, and they have a little falling out… It all gets better once they reconnect for the next few games. By this point it’s been a year or even more (by immortal standards ofc ofc) so Angel still longs for Devil, but has tried her best to move on. Devil needs a place to stay and so she stays with Angel. She works at Angels new pet salon (if you work at one place long enough living as long as they do, people will start to talk ya know what I mean). She tries to cause mischief again because that’s all that she knows but Angel is less perceptive. It’s at this time that Devil realizes her feelings for Angel, ever so slowly. BUT WHATS THIS? ANGEL HAS A GROSS HUMAN BOYFRIEND WITH THE WORST CHARACTER DESIGN EVER? ‘It’s okay we can just make her jealous by pretending we have a totally cool date- why is this ugly man flirting with me?’ So Devil does what Devil does best to get back at this two timing prick for trying to break her girlfriend- I mean best friends heart! They get into a little fight after this and Angel is rightfully upset about all that’s happening in her life right now, so she does the classic, dyes her hair and changes her style a bit. And so does Devil because she wants Angel to notice her more. And idk devil Angel magic, she can change how her horns look, that’s why humans don’t question them existing (idk). So after a bit more time and a bit more reconciliation, they finally admit their feelings for each other, officially move in together, adopt a cat, and love happily ever after. The end. -sincerely, That one gay dude who reads too much bl and queer fanfic

oh my god, little me had an entire fanfiction universe about these girls with multiple installments 😭 basically the devil girl was the cool goth and the angel was the dumb preppy rich kid, but they had to form an uneasy truce to take down the pet salon girls who they were common enemies with (because the lore was that there existed a big empire of these ”intentionally fucking things up” businesses and the pet salon was doing better). the stylist devil was the hairdresser devil’s little sister, and avata star sue was the angel’s bitchy best friend. the girl from the oriental/school/beach flirting games was the devil girl’s best friend. i never gave them romantic interests, and i was super bothered when they introduced a random man for the angel in the games. even at 7, i was lesbian as hell

my theory is that these girls control everything in my life like a puppet master pulls the strings of its puppets

i love that you managed to turn a game series from the early 2010s into an enemies to friends to roommates to enemies to lovers 100k slowburn

I always saw them as an enemies-to-lovers story where criminal-Devil is placed under goody-two-shoes Angel's supervision after one too many divine misdemeanors to help her rectify her behaviour. Demonic rehab and community service thru helping Angel with her work as a hairdresser. She legitimately wants to change (thus the insecure body language, she's trying to stop herself from doing bad deeds but it's literally her nature, so she's grappling with the thoughts of "can I even exist without causing chaos" and self-worth). That's how the prison ending made sense - Devil has to go back into confinement because she fails her parole terms.

Came for the devilish games, stayed for the greatest romance story of our lifetime.

when i was a kid my theory of these characters was that: Angels were supposed to make Devils a better person. So Angels, bc they are very kind they would let Devils stay at their house. And so they would let Devils near were they work so they would know how to do things right. But of course Devils werent easy to change and they will continue with their tricks and stuff. So everytime they wouldnt get caught during their pranks, Angels would thought that they were the ones who ruined their work. But if Devils actually got caught, Angels would had to accept that they wouldnt change that easy and so they will send 'em to Angel Jail ?

A few theories I think angel and devil have a mutual friendly rivalry, Where they both try to get in eachother's way. We don't see this often because angel is almost never the playable character. We know because of devilish cooking that angel is not above doing the **exact** same thing that devil does. But they'll even help eachother when in trouble, such as alerting eachother when the cat is eating their food or devil poisoning angel's scummy cheating boyfriend. It's a kinda "no one hurts her but me!" Kinda deal Also, when angel "locks up" devil... it doesn't seem that bad. The cell is usually full of toys and sweets. I think it's more of a time-out rather than a real punishment. Also, I'm guessing the reason the stores are cannonically called "devilish ____" is because they opened it together. Hense why angel doesn't mind devil being there (aside from the mutually agreed rivalry thing) The different "devil" with the twin drills is a different person, but I imagine her as devil's apprentice. Not a devil yet, hense the lack of horns. She's aspiring to be a devil by learning from the main devil (by making an Angel's life more difficult)

You did NOT need to go even a PERCENTAGE of this hard to get me on board with shipping these two, but by Lord am I glad you did.

I used to make the Angel and Devil in the sims and make them kiss. Half the CC I have is still angel/demon themed because of this.

The shipping subtext intro was So Funny your videos are incredible, thank you for posting 💗

I remember playing the first games and seeing them as coworkers, where both of them have a different vision of what they want to sell to their clients/genuinely believing their version looks the best. It didn't explain the prison though haha

I wish someone could buy out the rights to Angel and Devil. I wanna know their backgrounds, true names, what they think of each other and a story!

27:10 Another way you can explain humans not changing too much is the possibility that Angel and Devil are in an afterlife, where dead people go to get their hair cut. Maybe time passes faster in heaven than it does on earth.

Someone must turn your epilogue into a comic in a similar vein to Pinky And Pepper Forever.

when your time skip designs appeared i quite literally gasped in shock at how much they look like me and my best friend. we are, childhood friends whos parents met when they were pregnant with us, grown up together, reunited as mid-teens and had a short (one-sided from me lol) romantic era together as we figured ourselves out AND WE LOOK EXACTLY LIKE YOUR DESIGNS ITS INSANE DSFJHDSJHFDH the main difference is i havent bleached my hair back to its old blonde yet! i sent screenshots to her of course and she agreed ahh im so happy to see people talking about this game series i used to adore ittt

i actually NEED to write a comic inspired by your interpretation...i grew up playing these games and i was so happy to hear about them again😭 this story is incredible and these girls deserve the deepest of lore

These two give major Jenny by the Studio Killer vibes. 😭

20:26 I love how the shipping re-analysis symbol is just as compressed as the logo.

Man, I haven't thought about Devilish Hairdresser in *years,* but you're so right; as a kid I always thought that Devil's idle face was just way too *sad* to not have something else there. Also Good Omens walked so Devilish Hairdresser could run so Good Omens (Prime) could fly. They're both gay angel/devil love stories and you can't convince me otherwise.

I didn’t know that I needed Angel/devil fanfiction, but thank you for providing this vital service

Not the fanfic portion at the end lowkey making me tear up

neil gaiman 💀💀 little did we know, he and terry pratchett wrote good omens based on his experience from the devilish hair salon

I need someone to write a Good Omens x Devilish Hairdresser crossover fanfic. (also your time skip designs are absolutely adorable. I love them!)

i really wish the artist behind these games was active on the internet they seem to have made art for Hot BBQ part as well, and devilish and BBQ was my favorite games ever because of its art style

I remember basically rage quiting the salon game as a kid and never returning to their games. Never realized the fandom was so big or there was that much sapphic subtext in it. This video was great!

This is literally Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

Seeing that Devilish epilogue felt like randomly discovering the conclusion to a story I invested myself in years ago but forgot about for the longest time

"Oh they were roommates..." I literally almost cried at their hypothetical reunion. I want to draw fanart for these girls now, lol. I also have headcanon names for them, Devil's Azzie, derived from Azazel, and Angel is Sarah, derived from the word "seraphim"

Your fanfic-writing streak shows hardcore in your massaging the crumbs of silly canon into a heartbreaking, highly-supernatural timeline. And it is a gift. I would read so many words of this. I love the rich inner worlds, and I love seeing you laying out the canon you want to see in the world. tl;dr I ship it

ngl this would be a really cute webtoon type of thing! personally i feel like (as a tragedy sucker as i am) as much as i would like to see them learning to coexist in a friendly manner, neither one can truly belong with the other comfortably unless they fully change their respective natures... even if Angel constantly forgives her, being kind and patient is just not something someone like Devil could ever be: both of them live in an eternal present, barely changed by cosmetic alterations, with no possibility of true change. unless Devil became an Angel (and losing her own nature in the process, between the choice of her own identity or the potential harmony with a loved one), or if Angel became a Devil (betraying her values and losing her morality for a human-like attempt at a relationship that might just not last), they would have to keep dancing this eternal dance of underlying romantic tension

The fact that you managed to make your interpretation of the story not romanticize toxic relationships, and you actually address the themes in a nuanced way /pos _and you made me care about a girlsgogames series_

Devil with fake horns could also be the earliest point in the timeline, maybe she grows her horns in after. In timeskip designs, I would love to see functional wings on Angel's back, and bigger horns and a tail on Devil.

these games had such a grip on my childhood, the devilish series was one that i could easily identify by just seeing the characters and the art style, and i think even back in my baby "bi-without-knowing-it" years, i always thought that the two would look cute together as a couple. your interpretation of them with the epilogue was so sweet i got emotional!! thank you so much for this video.

What a coincidence because I've been obsessing to these games lately after learning that I can still play flash games! Actually, a very fun fact, the duo had a cameo to the Lovely Mermaid christmas game, which is a spot the difference game (I absolutely love The Lovely Mermaid, which features Gabriella, the blonde GirlsGoGames mascot). Angel and Devil showed up in their island as Santas giving gifts to the mermaids (and Devil tricked them all by the end)! I love the cameo, and the two being together in Christmas implied that they are celebrating Christmas TOGETHER!

Seeing the thumbnail threw me back in TIME. People always say things like "this unlocks memories I didn't even know I had" but that's truly what this video did for me. Thank you for making such a well-done video, and as a Chinese person, I greatly appreciate you going the extra step to give the Chinese developers as much proper credit as you could. Time to binge all your other videos!

This account is literally the niche I needed to find. You feature all the games I played as a kid that no one irl has heard of.

I was so obsessed with the devilish series and it has inspired my fashion sense and my love the cute anime and chibi art stlye and thx li you dont know hard im fangirling right now and i love to hear about the lore behind the games.

I never played these games as a kid since I wasn’t into those “slacking/do something while another person looks away” games, but i ADORE the designs of the Angel and Devil girls. Also the Devil girl’s design changed from game-to-game and I always thought it was just her wearing different outfits for different jobs. 💖

i always thought they were girlfriends, the little animation made me tear up i love them together and i really do think over time devil would work on herself to be with angel

Davilish series was my biggest inspiration in my character desinger career. Funny thing is, that for many years I had belived that devil's horns were made out of pizza cardboard. Ah...Those lies of childhood...

You are a goddess, Li. It’s hard to comprehend how you’re still a relatively new content creator and yet make such long, in-depth videos about these seemingly untouched subjects. It’s absolutely astounding. Keep up the good work 👏

I’m literally so happy that someone on youtube is unearthing the little nostalgia memories buried in my brain of all these old flash games. The way you put so much effort into your research and the video itself, QUEEN LIKE BEHAVIOR 💕

I got so emotional at your epilogue. The art and redesigns were so good and I genuinely felt like a piece of my childhood had been completed.

devilish hairdresser was an OBSESSION when i was a young teen. I made a silly video using screenshots of it while I did voices over it. it has caramelldansen playing and some shitty recolours as the intro. I remember getting curious about it a few years ago and I looked to find it had 7.4k views. I can't even access that youtube account anymore but the fact that it exists on the internet has me in a stranglehold of embarrassment for my past self. that entire channel is a blight on my existence ;;

I get so excited every time you post. I hope you cover those japanese flash games were you laser beam guys into loving you. Idk how much content could be squeezed out of those but those feel like a GGG classic

I remember when I was younger, I thought Devil's horns were cardboard wings (I don't think I played a majority of the games, I mainly remember the human hairdresser game and the cat game) and that Angel was trying to like, redeem Devil and such. And Angel Prison was basically like "go absorb the good vibes and not be evil" considering that it was full of stuffed toys. Also Angel is very forgiving which is why she kept giving Devil a chance. The cat stuff idk I don't remember what I thought of that

Look at that smirk they give while on the verge of turning around. There’s just NO way they don’t hold affection for each other.

bro you're such a good Storyteller I love the interpretation you had of these characters

omg i played those games when i was 8 years old and i LOVED shipping angel and devil, even as a kid i could feel the subtext, and it was a really comforting game for me back then, the artstyle amazed me soooo much and finally seeing some mischief inside girls games with a cute goth icon such as Devil was really cool for me back then nowadays i'm a 22 yo lesbian and i literally cried during your conclusion for Angel and Devil's story, thank you for that

The office secret kissing games really pave the way for these genre kinda games. I don't remember if I play this or the office one first, but I do remember going into a deep spiral of the adrenaline the game gave me in my boring, repetitive childhood schedule.

I miss the 2009 days so much! The Devilish hairdresser games are brilliant! The character designs are pretty neat and the way the music changes drastically when the devil messes up a client's haircut is a nice touch. Sending a devil to prison solely for trying to mess up a client's haircut is pretty harsh though. :P You also brought up a good concern regarding the first game's challenge being too reliant on the angel's uncertainty. I like the way you analyse certain aspects of these games, such as graphics and sound design. Kudos! :)

Hmmm... Good Omens seems a little more... "anime" than I remember... (Unrelated but I really like your voice, it's very relaxing. Idk if that's a weird compliment, basically I mean it's a good fit for these video essay type of videos.)

Hell yeah I just watched a 41 minute video about the gay subtext between two cartoons from a flash game that I've never played, and every second of it was amazing.

I imagine the reason Angel tolerates Devil's presence in her salon because Devil is using some sort of magic to hide, making Angel and the customer unable to see her. However, it takes a lot of concentration, so it fails when she focuses on cutting hair and Angel is able to catch her in the act.

Season 2 of Good Omens looks amazing.

I only saw the styling games growing up. I interpreted the characters as mentor/student, Angel showing how to be a proper stylist and Devil being less mischievous but more exploring her artistic style and creativity. The insecure look being questioning her career choice/passion because the "right" way doesnt include anything creative or innovative to her. But seeing the other 6 games changes things a bit haha

tbh I did view them as sisters even tho I'm gay as hell bc 1. I probs projected my own relationship with my sister onto it, as she was a blonde and I was some kinda alt kid who loved being a pain in the ass and 2. I'm also aromantic, soooo if you don't clearly present a romantic plot to me I simply won't see it lmao. Personally, I prefer non-romantic relationships, but I totally get the appeal of shipping these two gals, they do look cute together! Especially in your little epilogue, loved that!! 🧡

Okay i am OBSESSED with your little epilogue animation thing for these two oh my goddd!! Them growing old together made me so happy! Also I have always loved the devilish games as a kid so seeing this in my notifs BLEW MY MIND. Thank you for making this along w your other vids, i enjoy them so much

I was literally obsessed with these games as a kid! like me and my old best friend had a bunch of OCs for these weird little flash games

As a kid who was never really taught heteronormaty by my family [ they are homophobic, just didn't think they needed to do that lol ] I absolutely saw them as girlfriends. I remember playing the develish hairdresser and thinking "these two love each other". Devil n Angel were probably the first characters I technically shipped and my first baby step into the LGBT community

oh holy shit this is such a weird coincidence. earlier this week i remembered the game OFF and relistened to the soundtrack and had desperately safe (my favorite track that fell asleep to for probably a year straight) on repeat, and now its featured in your video, 14 years after its release and 10 years after OFF became popular in english speaking fandom??? whoda thunk edit: i just finished the video and your epilogue and timeskip designs are ADORABLE ugh 😭😭😭

In my mind too the cooking competition thing was the ending of them being michevious together instead of ruining things, its just cookies they are gonna taste the same even if decorated differently

A redhaired demon pining for a blond angel, where have I seen that before. Also godddd I love the ending you gave them

You truly haven’t missed. I’m curious if you or anyone in the comments know anything about the website wambie?? I remember I used to love playing the original celebrity makeup games they had, and they also had this really tasteless one of Paris Hilton where she went from very skinny to “fat” by having her catch food in her mouth. Would love to know if anyone else remembers this website too!

The GirlsGoGames universe is under explored. And now the site is just a bot infested site with those weirdo games disguised as kid games 😔

I just love the artstyle of these games is sooo cute

You did NOT have to make me cry about two characters I don't even know

I'm not even going to lie, your Epilogue story made me cry. I was so emotionally invested in it

13:49 OH MY GOD THEY WERE ROOMMATES

I like that you made a joke about the client looking like Neil Gaiman because I came down here to make a Good Omens joke

I love the jump for the theory that devil is manipulating angel, she couldve been crying for other reasons (like leaving the client w a messed up haircut) but NO DEVIL IS MANIPULATING ANGEL INTO THINKING THAT SHE DID IT!! So silly

The epilogue is filling me with irreparable joy

I love your videos. I never played these games but your dedication to the lore has me feeling like I genuinely cared about this content too. Keep it up, great stuff.

I really appreciate how deep you went into this research. It's rare to see! I love it when people go really deep into random things that most people would not care about.

I literally CRIED at the final story, wtf i always wanted to know were this characters come from bc i see many fanarts abt them, i love the fact that they are from a flash game saga, and have no more content than it-

WAKE UP GIRLS AND GAYS NEW LI SPEAKS UPLOAD!!!!!!

Hearing Pepper Steak, such good Game and Music taste this channel 👏

You’re probably not going to see my comment but i sincerely want to thank you for this video. You made me cry because of the shipping version. And yeah i mean true tears. I used to play the first few games of this series with my childhood best friend and we had ups and downs throughout our entire life. Since we were 3 years old until we were 17… the undertone of our relationship was clearly not just platonic friendship… at the time we didn’t know that girls could like girls and i lived in denial until i moved abroad at 21… we fought over the idea that we got “cheated” on due to a new friend entering our life. She was my only friend and if i could i would have spent all of my days just with her. She was my too priority and the other couple of friends that i had throughout my childhood stood nowhere near the importance she had for me. I now understand that this feeling was not just how a friend should feel, and if i knew that you could experience being in love with the same gender i would have absolutely told her that someday… now here’s the sad part we were both struggling with mental health and it got worse amd worse for both growing up. i forgave her replacing me again and again and the last time we got back together was when things went bad… she got hospitalised in different clinics and i couldn’t handle both my problems and hers but i tried as hard as i could. it seemed she got better and when she came back she told me her feelings for me… again i was in denial and i had way too much teen drama at that time and also i had lost that feeling after all the times she dumped me and i got back everytime i saw her hurt… so i rejected her… after some time we stopped talking… we were the same age, now she’ll be always stuck at 22… the only time i didn’t look back because i had to put myself first she left us… all my new friends knew about her and how i pretended to not missing her and wanting her back… she probably never understood that if she felt alone i would have forgiven her again and again. she’s that special and im that stupid to always be waiting for the inevitable time for us to talk again and become best friends again for the millionth time… god i would give it all to be an immortal creature as Devil and Angel to see her again and live the rest of my life by her side… [im sorry if the potential trauma dump(?) and if it’s unclear, english is not my first language and it 3 am]

Thank you so much for this video, man. It's one of the only things I can fall asleep to when I'm doing God awful. Brings me comfort, thinking that I might have the chance to reconnect with the person that I love dearly, but who has also caused so much damage to the relationship we once had. This video is everything to me. (You also put so much work into your videos, and your voice is really calming. Thank you for becoming a content creator and for putting this out into the world. It's done more good than you could ever imagine)

I'm so glad you made a full analysis of these games 😭😭 I really wish there were some kind of webseries. What little we got from the spot the difference comics were so cute

This was real cute! The change to storytelling took me for a turn, but I was totally invested by the end!

I didn't knew there was a Good Omens flash gam-

It's really interesting and cool how you find the creator credits of these flash games, I never was interested in that as a kid but it's eye-opening to see as an adult how obscured the credits are.

Not me crying at 3 in the afternoon over the epilogue. So cute qvq

the NOSTALGIAAAAAA

Their dynamic is literally Aziraphale and Crowley from good omens, you can't convince me otherwise (especially with the Neil Gaiman looking dude getting a haircut, ita a sign)

the epilogue was soooo adorable!!