The magical salon secret that means you CAN have long hair past
50 (and chop years off your looks!)
conditioning cream. This sank into it deeply beneath a shower cap and an overhead steamer for 15 minutes before being rinsed off. And then Dar set to work.
While still wet, my hair looked thin and wispy after he had brushed it.
He sat opposite me and asked me to look down.
I felt anxious as he took his trademark little cutters to the front of my mane.
SeemIngly, quite a lot was hitting the floor, but compared with previous hairdressers, he was restrained, nothing to overly trouble a person armed with a dustpan and brush.
Then it was blow-dried and curled a bit and ended up, after an hour or so, looking fuller than it had for a long time. Dar had made it look healthy again.
‘I want to show women they can keep their hair long and make it look wonderful,’ he explained. ‘The cut makes the face, neckline and upper torso incredibly sexy and beautiful, as well as younger and fresher. I use a new technique, created for women with long hair, cutting a V-shaped layer in order to keep the length and achieve body and volume, instead of struggling with flat, dull hair.’ Well, I, for one, am thrilled. Following this treatment, I am convinced the length has got a good many years in it yet, and I hope it will no longer receive looks that question whether I might be concealing a cauldron in the kitchen.
Or indeed invite suggestions that I knuckle down to ageing gracefully with a prissy bob.
no need now. no thanks. We have every right to be embracing and swishing our middle years’ locks with all the aplomb of those relishing and flicking their adolescent ones.