It’s 2012 and I need to do something different with my hair; I am really stuck in a hair rut. You know when you look in the mirror and you feel ‘blah’? I’ve felt like that for about a year and a half.
However, the hairdressers to me is like the dentist to you. I have always had disastrous luck in the hair department - more horrific haircuts than hot dinners!
The most memorable cut and colour of my life was just before I was about to move to London. I went in with photos of exactly what I wanted. I was thinking gamine, I was thinking Alexa Chung: a shoulder length bob with ombre highlights.
I left looking like the grotesque spawn of a red panda and a medieval monk. For some reason, only known to herself, the hairdresser decided that shoulder length actually meant barely grazing my jawline, and took ombre highlights to mean chestnut-red and ash-blonde stripes through 80% of my hair. She left the peroxide on for so long that my hair went whiter than my gran’s. I left the salon sobbing and on the brink of a nervous breakdown, unable to leave my house for about four days.
Since then, I have point-blank refused to go to the hairdressers but what with terrible split ends and my desire to look really different for 2012, I apprehensively I booked an appointment.
I shouldn’t have worried. Rachel, my hairdresser, was brilliant. She completely understood what I wanted and delivered on all accounts. My New Year’s New Look is a full proper fringe – something I haven’t had since I was eighteen. I love it!
What changes are you making in your look for the New Year?
Ezetie x
