hairdressers

I've never really trusted them, although they do come number 3 in my list of least favourite activities, no.1 is seeing the dentist and no.2 being a cervical smear. however, I bit the bullet and had my hair cut yesterday by a lovely woman who proceeded to give me the exact cut I had told her that I didn't want but always seemed to end up getting. She also removed a foot of hair in the process from the length and very heavily layered the last 6 inches of my hair.

Why is it that there are only 2 types of hairdressers when you have long hair? The first type treat your hair as a national treasure and grade 3 list it, the second see it as a personal affront and try to remove it. Forget Steve Martin in 'Little Shop of Horrors', to make him truly evil he'd have to have a speculum and a pair of scissors.

Mr McMuffin has come up trumps and booked me in for some expensive repair work with the style director at Toni and Guy. Wonder which of the two camps they'll fall into? If I lose another foot it will almost be as short as his. I am beginning to feel very jealous of a friend with lovely low maintenance locks. She just gets them twisted every few weeks and never has to cut them. I shan't reveal her identity, but she had an early history as a jealous hair cutter, managing to persuade everyone that her cousin had cut her own hair off in the night. We are very good friends, but I secretly feared she would cut my hair off when we shared an appartment in Barcelona, and other long haired friends were also very anxious, even considering wearing bathing hats to bed. I guess I don't have anything to fear any more from her.... (If you're reading this haircutting one, you know I'm only joking, we weren't that frightened really)