Hair

For as long as I can remember I have been going to the hairdresser every 6 weeks to get my hair cut and coloured.  While the station here has so many things that make life so comfortable a hair dresser and beautician are not amongst them.  There are a few brave people who offer hair cuts and some even braver people who take them up on the offer.  And so every other Sunday the laundry turns into the Davis hair salon.  

Most people are just happy for a trim but others are keen for the mullet (still can’t work out why) and others are just happy for anything including Tristan who completely trusted Jenn to shave lines in to the side of his head and proudly agreed for me to take photos for the blog.  

Others shave their heads and some are growing it out wondering what it might look like in another 6 months.

For me I thought I would take the opportunity to grow it out and I have to say its held up pretty well.   I’m close to being able to put it up….like a kid with a little fountain on the top of my head up…and I’m back embracing some curls.  

At the start of the season the vast majority of men were clean shaven so they could learn the breathing apparatus during fire training and also raise money for Movember but now there are lots and lots of beards.  Not a day goes by without me hearing ‘hey mate you have some food in your beard’. I’m told the facial hair keeps them warmer but I also think like me its a good excuse not to get a haircut.  

Years ago I just liked changing colours now I just like any colour that is not grey.  Nope absolutely not planing on going grey graciously so every few weeks my colourist Kristian takes care of things for me.  Thank goodness for COVID as he learnt to colour his wife’s hair during that time.  I have to say he does a fabulous job, is very careful and thorough and I finally found a use for my hi-vis shirts.

After years of visiting beauty salons I’m doing my own eyebrows and I feel like I’m doing a great job although I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t be such different shapes or lengths.  Without a doubt  they will need some serious attention at the end of the year.  

There is one saving grace and that is hats!! Everyone wears beanies outside and they are also quite popular, either that or a cap.  I never really had the head for a beanie but I have had no choice but to embrace it.  I have however discovered that my beanie from a popular fashion store was purely for looks as the wind just whistled through it so that one went into retirement a few weeks ago. 

We also have a pretty good selection of dress ups here so occasionally the wigs come out to brighten things up.

I often get asked if I am going to cut my hair? or have I done something different to my hair? My favourite was the other day when Will asked me whether I had done something different to my hair or had I just woken up from a nap?  It was the latter….and that just gives you a sense of how comfortable we have become living here together in our small little town of Davis.