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We cut Fabi's hair yesterday. I say "we", but I chickened out because he was screaming and wriggling so much it seemed like child abuse. Odi and Ailz persevered. They were remorseless. Women are.

I loathed having my hair cut when I was a kid (still do, actually). I remember being taken to the barbers when I was a cocky eight year old and giving my little sister- who was watching- a running commentary about how much it hurt. (Of course it didn't). The barber must have hated me.

Ailz says she once had her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon, who- implausibly- began his great career in Stockport. He- or his assistant- gave her a Bowie cut.

In the future Dystopia of H.G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes, hairdressers- known as capillotomists- are regarded as artists. Like many of the book's predictions this one's not too far off the mark, I think. 

Date: 2011-04-16 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com
I rather enjoy having someone fuss over my hair but then we remorseless women often do.
;)

Date: 2011-04-16 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
I hate being fussed over. A weekend at a health spar would be pure unalloyed misery.

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