Watch out for malicious hairdressers who hack away your locks
Is there such a thing as a malicious hairdresser? A person who sets out to sabotage clients’ happiness and self- confidence by urging on them the wrong colours, lengths or styles? I certainly used to think so in the 1960s, when my mother would go out looking lovely and come back with her hair compressed into such tight little curls that her whole head resembled a nylon bathing cap. This was the result of a perm or permanent wave. It suited no one yet every one of her contemporaries had one. Fifty years on, I find that another disfiguring hairstyle is surging in popularity. When I go into our local high street and observe women of my own vintage, I ask myself, ‘What has possessed so many of them to have the same brutalist haircut – literally a short back and sides?’ Even those with the potential for a glamorous...
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