But not to me.
I gave up on my hair a long time ago, what’s left is grey and periodically buzz cut by Mrs Baldwin.
My younger male office colleagues, who spend a small fortune on getting their barnets coiffured on an almost weekly basis (Ed if you ever read this, consider yourself included), are of the opinion that getting your hair cut by the Mrs is the sartorial equivalent of wearing shorts, socks and sandals. Bad, apparently. Like you’ve just given up on your appearance and lost your style mojo.
I of course disagree on the basis that I now have the perfect hair style to wear underneath a crash helmet.
There are of course risks in having your hair cut by amateurs. Last year in one rather amusing incident, my lovely wife armed with the electric clippers made a bit of a mess of things. Having handed the Wahl to her with the three comb already attached …
… she took the comb off for some reason even she didn’t understand. And then buzzed a strip off my bonce.
Panic, hers I might add, followed. In Mrs B’s defence, she was mortified. The rest of my cut went from the planned three, to a two and then to a one … and the go faster stripe was still bleeding obvious.
My colleague Ed would have died of shame; me, I went to work without giving a damn. To be fair, I did get laughed at but I really didn’t care. That’s how little the hair matters.
My flowing locks and days of hairspray are long gone, but perhaps surprisingly, I have written about hair before. Here’s a link to a post from 2015.
To be honest, I’d pretty much forgotten I’d even written it, when out of the blue, I started receiving emails from Louise Boury, writing for www.hairtheme.com. Louise thought that some links from my earlier piece to her website and advice article could be useful to my reader (so, Tracy Westgate, I’ll leave it to you to decide).
Here’s an extract from one of Louise’s notes – “I just published a comprehensive guide about balayage or ombre.”
My initial response was “what on earth are balayage or ombre”, two completely new words to my lexicon. So, because every day is a school day, here’s where I went - https://hairtheme.com/natural-hair-growth/ …
And it took me no time at all to feel like I was a very long way from target market. I might as well have been reading about knitting or decoupage.
But a fellow blogger is welcome to a link from me, and of course, Tracy might find the page interesting.
Louise emailed me four times, that’s how much she values a link from my earlier piece. She must be mad! But she got the result she wanted in the end.
I’ll be honest though, I still don’t know what balayage or ombre are.
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I gave up on my hair a long time ago, what’s left is grey and periodically buzz cut by Mrs Baldwin.
My younger male office colleagues, who spend a small fortune on getting their barnets coiffured on an almost weekly basis (Ed if you ever read this, consider yourself included), are of the opinion that getting your hair cut by the Mrs is the sartorial equivalent of wearing shorts, socks and sandals. Bad, apparently. Like you’ve just given up on your appearance and lost your style mojo.
I of course disagree on the basis that I now have the perfect hair style to wear underneath a crash helmet.
There are of course risks in having your hair cut by amateurs. Last year in one rather amusing incident, my lovely wife armed with the electric clippers made a bit of a mess of things. Having handed the Wahl to her with the three comb already attached …
… she took the comb off for some reason even she didn’t understand. And then buzzed a strip off my bonce.
Panic, hers I might add, followed. In Mrs B’s defence, she was mortified. The rest of my cut went from the planned three, to a two and then to a one … and the go faster stripe was still bleeding obvious.
My colleague Ed would have died of shame; me, I went to work without giving a damn. To be fair, I did get laughed at but I really didn’t care. That’s how little the hair matters.
My flowing locks and days of hairspray are long gone, but perhaps surprisingly, I have written about hair before. Here’s a link to a post from 2015.
To be honest, I’d pretty much forgotten I’d even written it, when out of the blue, I started receiving emails from Louise Boury, writing for www.hairtheme.com. Louise thought that some links from my earlier piece to her website and advice article could be useful to my reader (so, Tracy Westgate, I’ll leave it to you to decide).
Here’s an extract from one of Louise’s notes – “I just published a comprehensive guide about balayage or ombre.”
My initial response was “what on earth are balayage or ombre”, two completely new words to my lexicon. So, because every day is a school day, here’s where I went - https://hairtheme.com/natural-hair-growth/ …
And it took me no time at all to feel like I was a very long way from target market. I might as well have been reading about knitting or decoupage.
But a fellow blogger is welcome to a link from me, and of course, Tracy might find the page interesting.
Louise emailed me four times, that’s how much she values a link from my earlier piece. She must be mad! But she got the result she wanted in the end.
I’ll be honest though, I still don’t know what balayage or ombre are.
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