it would be the other way round. I’m
fully aware some of the ladies come up
to me and are nervous - you could see
beads of sweat forming when they’re in
the chair!
Who would you say is the most famous
person you have met?
I can give you a list and you can pick
the most famous. There’s Grace Jones,
the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney,
George Harrison, Sting, all of Take
That, Bryan Ferry, Chris Tarrant to
name but a few. I’ve only been starstruck once, when I met The Queen –
she wanted me to be her hairdresser –
and you can’t really reach much higher
than that! I didn’t do it because you’d
have to do her hair when she wanted it
done and you’d have to go to Australia,
Canada and places like that and be
at her beck and call. I’m running a
business and I just couldn’t have done
it. It would have been a lovely thing to
do but you know, it’s only a head of
hair. When I was telling a few people
I had been asked to do it, they said:
“Oh, you’d have to change her hair”,
and actually you can’t, because every
bank note, every stamp would have to
change if you think about it. As her PA
said: “Look, she’s not a pop star, she’s
not a celebrity, she’s an 84-year-old
woman who happens to be The Queen
of this country and you have to put that
into perspective”, so if I changed it,
there might have been a backlash.
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Have you ever created a style that you
loved and your client hated? If so, how do
you handle that?
You, for example; if I say: “Right have you
ever had a fringe? Have you ever thought
about one?”
Yeah. It’s a good thing and a bad thing.
A big reputation is what you work to
achieve but when you get it, it can work
against you. Most people say to me: “Do
what you want”. Let me tell you how it
really works. Because I’ve got a name,
people say: “I’ll leave it to you”. But it’s
actually not a case of that at all. In fact,
that’s about the worst thing that anyone
could say to me.
“I’ve thought about it”.
“Have you ever had layers?”
”Yeah”.
“Did you li