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20 august 2010



Confessions of a HAIRDRESSER


Source: www.mirror.co.uk  - Mirror.co.uk  - UK


UNITED KINGDOM- Hairdressing superstar Vidal Sassoon will unveil the juiciest secrets of his career in a revealing autobiography next month. But while we await his steamy revelations, we speak to some of the country's top stylists to get a taste of the confessions shared with trusted hairdressers every day..


My middle-aged client propositioned me"

Salon boss Daniel Galvin Jnr.

"The most intimate I ever got with a client was with a middle aged lady a few years ago - I was about 21.

One day after I'd styled this lady, I popped to reception after she'd left to collect my tips. I spotted an envelope that had been marked for me and thought, 'Great, someone's left me a massive tip!' Usually it was just a bit of shrapnel. But when I looked inside she'd left me the keys to her house and a note asking me to come and see her, with the address and everything! I was mortified and didn't know what to do.

Obviously, I didn't go. But she was straight back to see me again, she came to have her hair done for a long time afterwards and I was so embarrassed I just had to pretend it was totally normal that she, my middleaged client, had actually propositioned me!

I gave her the keys back and said 'I think you left your keys behind the last time you were here'. We never mentioned it again."

DANIEL GALVIN JR COLOUR CLINIC, 020 3416 3116. WWW.DANIELGALVINJNR.CO.UK

"He came out to me and dumped his fiancee"

Celebrity stylist Charley

McEwen.

"A guy who came in regularly to get his hair done came out to me. He'd recently got engaged to his girlfriend, so I thought he was straight - although I did catch him glancing at me in the mirror a little longer than is usual for a straight bloke.

Then one day he blurted out he was gay. Then he told me I was the first person he'd ever told, and now he felt like he could finally be honest.
Later that day he rang the salon and asked me out. I was mortified and made up a lie, saying I was seeing someone which I wasn't. That was the last I heard of him. Then another client, a woman, came in a few weeks later. She was engaged and the last time I'd seen her she was all excited about the wedding.

So I asked her how everything was going and she got emotional and told me her fiance had come out a couple of weeks before and the wedding was off!

I put two and two together, and this was the same guy who'd asked me out! I had to comfort her, when I was the one that triggered his whole honesty thing!"

Charley McEwen @ Bloww

"She was a dominatrix who tied up her elderly boss!"
Style director Ashley Gaunt.

"This woman came to London every week from Cardiff to work as a dominatrix. She'd come to me every Thursday to do her bright blonde hair for the weekend, and she'd be on the phone booking blokes through until Sunday.

The little old bloke who owned the place she worked - she called it a dungeon - was atleast 70 and he did everything for her.

But she confessed to me that his fetish was getting her to tie him up in the back garden naked, and she'd go off to the shops and spend his money. By the time she came back, he'd be freezing - and he loved it!

She used all this weird terminology that I didn't understand when she was booking clients, and one day I asked what this particular thing meant - I nearly died, and I don't think it's suitable for a family newspaper!

But she told me all the gory details and I could barely look her in the eye, knowing she was doing this shocking stuff for £150 an hour!

Even though she was making loads of money, she was tacky as hell. I had to be nice to her, though."

"I had to style his wife AND his mistress"

Senior stylist Alfie Mayer.

"I used to have a guy who came in regularly with his wife for haircuts. They were a really nice couple, all over each other, and would get their hair done one after the other. I got on well with them both.

Then one day the same guy came in with another woman. Same thing, all over each other, having a laugh and talking about how they'd booked a table that night and were going out.

He gave me a wink as if to say 'Don't say anything mate'. And as much as I was shocked the first time this happened,I was even more shocked when he came in six weeks later with his wife again and went through the whole routine over again - his hair was better groomed than theirs!
This went on a long time.

It was as if either woman could have been his wife, and God knows who knew what was going on except me and him.

It didn't seem like the mistress knew she was his bit on the side because she acted as if they were an official couple, and I know the wife didn't have a clue. But it wasn't my place to out him - and I didn't fancy a punch-up on the salon floor!"

"They were all sleeping with each other - it was juicier than EastEnders!"
Stylist to the stars Andrew Barton.

"The best story I know was a super menage a trois - I call it a menage a quatre because it was four married people all sleeping with each other, and I was the only person who knew the full extent of it!

They were two married couples who all came to me for haircuts, normal folk - or so I thought.

Over the two years I worked with them, I found out at one stage or other they had all slept with each other and were coming to me to confess.
It got so juicy I was booking the biggest gossip - one of the husbands - in every two weeks for instalments - it was better than EastEnders!
He told me he was having an affair with the other man. He said, 'I'm straight, but ever since we were at uni, me and my mate have been having sex once in a while'.

Then six months later he told me he'd slept with his friend's wife, all the while still sleeping with the bloke and of course his own wife!

He said he and this other woman had got drunk at a party and and things got out of hand. In the end it turned out they had all slept with each other, even the women.

Needless to say both couples have split now, although I don't think any of them ever found out just how bad it was."

ANDREW BARTON SALON COVENT GARDEN, 020 7112 5998

"My client had gambled away a fortune"

Senior colourist Tara Kidd.

"A client in his 50s came to me one day seeming a bit stressed out.
He said he'd lost a bit of money at the casino the night before and he was pretty worried about it. I was just advising him to try and rein it in a bit because gambling's dangerous. Anyway, I imagined it was maybe a couple of hundred quid or a grand if it was really bad, but the longer the conversation went on I realised it was much worse.

He finally confessed he'd lost about half a million in one go! He'd been there all day and all night and blew £500,000. I was gobsmacked. If that was me I'd have been dying, but he was shockingly calm. He just said he knew he'd have to cut down.

He was loaded anyway - he worked in property - but I was the first person he'd told just how bad it was. I've never heard anything like it, and the guy just needed to get it off his chest."

So why do we confess to our hairdresser?

Psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos says: "The first thing is the physical proximity to these people. They are right down by your head, touching you. It's a very intimate position to be in with someone. By virtue of their job they are generally very good with people, they have to be good talkers and they love to listen. That physical closeness and their easy manner can break down barriers very quickly.

Next, there is trust. You are trusting these people with your appearance - you're putting yourself in their hands and letting go of that guard you might have with other people.

Also, to a hairdresser, your stories are mostly anonymous. They don't know who Mary or Julie or John is, so they're not making judgments on you or who you're talking about.

And, finally, the salon experience is by its nature supposed to be relaxing. Both you and your stylist have a vested interest in making it a calm, pampering, luxury experience, and when people are relaxed, they talk!"

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