10 hairdressing disasters we should all avoid on Monday
Hair-starved stylists and a desperate population is a disaster waiting to happen. Try to avoid cutting loose on your first trip to the salon
10 April 2021 • 5:00am
Good hair day: Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, is one very happy customer as she can finally enjoy getting her hair coloured and cut
Credit: Andy Buchanan/PA
Hairdressers! Open! Next week! As you know, the Scots are a week ahead of the English on this, and naturally Nicola Sturgeon was front of the queue on Monday (see right), as were several TV reporters.
It made for uncomfortable viewing actually. You were supposed to think “At last! Me next!” But watching the scissor wielders get to work all you could think was: “Ooh… I wouldn’t take any more off there” and “Crikey, what is he doing to the back?” No one in those salon chairs was getting an inch off and a tidy-up, that’s for sure; it was all undercuts or asymmetric bobs, and let that be a warning to us all.