03/05/07

hair is power

the relationship between a woman and her hairdresser is intimate. It is said that women tell their hairdressers things they wouldn’t dream of telling their husbands. […] And it is hair that frames – and makes distinctive – the various concepts of feminine beauty. […] Every woman has a firm opinion on the hair of others. Hair is power. In history as certain women gain in ascendancy, so too their hairdressers.
‘Shoes and your hair. You can forget all that’s in between,’ a greying woman behind sunglasses told Ellen on a bus in Sydney.
murray bail, “eucalyptus” (1998), pp. 167-168.

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