Why is it that at the start of every new year I want a brand new hair style" A totally new cut, a completely new colour – something dramatically different. I look at my hair, the hair that has been perfectly serviceable for an entire twelve months, and – for reasons that are a mystery to me – decide that something radical has to be done. That I must emerge from the hair salon looking like a completely new person. For the rest of the year I am happy with general maintenance – having my roots touched up and a little trim to keep things neat and relevant – but in January I seem to long for change.
(Actually, I had the same sort of sudden craving for an extreme hair reform after both babies were born and, weirdly, after my Dad died last year. But that’s a whole other story.) It’s a new year thing isn’t it" A fresh start, a clean slate, the chance to reinvent and cast off the old. I think I did have a touch of the New Year New Me lurgy when I started deliberating over my hair, early last week, but I also think that because I was making a dedicated journey to London to have a cut and colour, I felt as though I needed to make it count. To come out with something strikingly different and life-changingly new.
But it soon became apparent that a radical hair transformation was not on the menu for me at the Josh Wood Atelier. Thank God that Melanie (my colourist) and Kat (my stylist) are both very sensible and very experienc...