Some hairdressing tips for the middle aged which I’ve gleaned from my latest copy of Mature Times as I prepare for those end days. Not having a pension or long term secure accommodation aside, or a partner, or kids to take on the burden of looking after me, come to think of it, I don’t think anyone in the UK is preparing for middle age better than me. I’m leaving little to chance.
And recently, I’ve been looking at hair. This is an area the middle aged often get wrong as they fail to adjust to the fact they are no longer young.
Hairdresser Andrew Barton, a very camp looking man, had some useful dos and don’ts in June’s edition of Mature Times for the middle aged.
Frizzy unkempt hair is one of the worst ageing culprits.
The same hairstyle worn for too long dates you and adds on the years. – Someone tell fellow hairdresser Nicky Clarke.
Changes don’t have to be dramatic. Subtle changes every few years will keep you fresh and looking younger.
Have at least three or four haircuts a year. With ageing, the hair gets weaker and thinner causing split ends more easily.
So there you have it. No one’s telling you that you can’t go and have your mid-life crisis. No one’s telling you that you can’t go and run off with someone far younger than you and wreck your life. You can still do those things. But it’s important that you at least do them with good hair. Don’t be thinking you can still be doing these things with a younger person’s hairstyle.
You need to accept that once you’re over 35 that your hair no longer grows in the same way. The key to this adjustment is making it appear as if you no longer care about so many hairstyles that you once took for granted no longer being available to you. Deal with that and you can still go onto make the disgraceful life choices that will utterly destroy your life and hurt those you love.
These people will have nothing good to say about you. But at least, if you follow Andrew Barton’s hairdressing tips, none of them will ever be able to say anything disparaging about your hair.