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We know you've been hungering for word of when beauty parlor Pimps & Pinups will be opening on the Lower East Side. Well blog Bowery Boogie has photos of the salon, which looks to be still under construction (although they've got a sign outside now). Soon it'll be time to remove that fuzzy top hat, stow your cane in a corner and get that 'do done. LES, we hardly know you anymore. [Bowery Boogie; Previously]