I drove 400 miles just to be able to look in the mirror again
Anne Fraser was so desperate for a dye that she made a 400-mile round-trip.
On Thursday, the Scots gran drove for three hours from her home in St Anne’s near Blackpool to Glasgow, as one of the first clients to grace Taylor Ferguson’s Glasgow salon when it reopened.
“Taylor has been doing my hair for more than 20 years, so I wanted him to be the stylist to fix it post-lockdown,” said Anne. “He started when I lived in Scotland and is the only stylist I trust to cut my hair.
“Salons opened in England a few weeks ago, but I was holding off for Taylor, so I felt lucky to have managed to get an appointment at all with it being so busy.”
Anne, who was born in Glasgow, last had her hair coloured at the salon on March 10.
“At the beginning of lockdown, like everyone else, I found it hard to look in the mirror. But it led to a different, more relaxed way of life.
“Nobody cared how big their roots were or how chipped their nails looked because we weren’t seeing anyone.
“But now that the world is opening up, it will be great to start feeling – and looking – like myself again.”
Retired nurse Anne, 67, decided on a whole new look.
“Taylor is the one hairdresser I can just say ‘do what you want’ to and it comes out amazing every time,” she said. “There might have been screens and PPE and no glossy magazines, but I definitely felt pampered – and delighted to get some dye on again. It was a long day but absolutely worth every minute.”