Nine Days To Go...

As I write this I look like I should be attending a glittering red-carpet premiere or glossy Hollywood party rather than looking after a house and a toddler. At least that's true from the neck up, as I'm wearing my usual jeans and T-shirt combo. This morning I had my wedding hair trial.

I am one of those people who never likes their hair when the stylist has just cut and blow-dried it. In fact, I have never had my hair cut before and not immediately gone home and washed it and restyled it myself. This is no reflection on any of my hairdressers (there have been a few), and I always compliment them and tell them I love it, it's just that I never really feel like me when they've finished. I don't know if anyone will relate to this, or if it's just particular to me, but it's just the way I am. The current trend for use of straighteners has made the problem worse, as my hair is quite thick and even when I straighten it myself it still has a bit of bounce. But when straightened professionally at the salon after a cut, in its perfect glossy state it just looks to me as if it's had every ounce of life ironed out of it.

Therefore I approached this morning with a certain amount of trepidation, since I am relying on Sam the Hairdresser to make me look like a goddess on the big day, and there will be no washing and re-doing myself this time. But there was no need to feel stressed! I now know that my years spent striving for straight hair out of my nightmare tresses (not curly enough to be properly curly, but wavy enough to be a right mess when left untamed) have been misdirected. All this time I should have been having some kind of perm!

I decided I wanted loose waves putting in, in an effort to look glamorous but still recognisable as me. I hardly ever wear my hair up, and so there's no way I was going to start on my wedding day when everyone that knows me will be analysing me from all angles. Sam got her straightening irons out (how is it that straightening irons are now THE thing to use for curls?) and within the hour it was finished. She pinned up a couple of strands 'for height' and put in a couple of these hair jewel things and I swear a miracle had taken place. I look like I belong on a film set and now I've stopped feeling relieved, I am sooooo excited. All I need to do now is hold firm, keep away from the chocolate and cakes for only another week and I should be home free!