By Anne-Marie Solowij
Is it possible to be too busy to blog? With umpteen shows and three copy deadlines a day the answer is yes, yes, yes! Which is why I didn’t post an update on my brilliant Toni & Guy 5 day blow dry yesterday – or the day before. When I should have been writing, I was, er working, but I can reveal now that on one of those days I was sporting a ponytail and then yesterday a fringe!
Backstage at Richard Nicoll, Luke Hersheson decided that the best way to update my look was to give me a Winge, aka a wig fringe, the latest clever accessory available at Hersheson’s for time pressed women who want to instantly update their look without committing to a cut.
Now, I can whinge for England, but it never looks pretty, whereas this Winge was transforming in the most positive way: a fringe makes me look like my sister and given that she’s four years younger than me, that’s no bad thing.
Day five and I’ve been inspired by all the ballet references around, so my hair is twisted up into a ballet bun. The key to getting this season’s ballet bun (as opposed to a chignon which, according to Neil Moodie is positioned between the nape of the neck and the occipital bone) lies in its exact position, at a 45 degree angle to the chin, based on a classical fencing silhouette. So said Malcom Edwards, who did a beautiful bun for Antonio Berardi, and he’s big with tattoos (Malcom, that is) so I’m not going to argue.
