In my last year of school in the late 80’s I wanted to stand out in the crowd. I wasn’t top of the class or good at football and was always conscious that my glasses weren’t cool. I yearned to be different but the regulation maroon school jumper just didn’t cut it.
Becoming a trainee gent’s hairdresser, whilst still at school was my perfect opportunity – I could have any hairstyle I wanted. I started to dream up wacky styles and spent hours poring over the pictures in the salons tired style magazines.
The senior stylists saw me as a bit of a guinea pig, they must have picked up on my secret yearning and even convinced me that having my ear pierced twice in the same ear was de rigueur.
Nick Heyward of Haircut 100 was a huge inspiration and my dream hairstyle was born - I would have a bleached flat-top.
The ‘cut and bleach’ was planned like a military exercise; I would have it done on a Thursday night to allow me to get away with only having to attend school on the Friday so I could take radical action over the weekend if required.
If I could have only filmed the reactions on the faces of my class mates, one kid even walked into a teacher whilst looking at me with an admiring gaze. John, the coolest kid in school and who was first to get the white Nike boots even had the nerve to copy me shortly after, but I had already done the damage.
You know that you have reached the pinnacle when one of the god-like sixth form student’s comments to you that you have a cool hairstyle. Katie, who everyone wanted to go out with, smiled at me from within her entourage – I had cracked it, I got noticed.
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P.S. Photos to the highest bidder!
Monday, 23 July 2007
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