Where plaits’s concerned, my look (if you can even call it that) is very down-to-earth to achieve
Sali Hughes: ‘I approach styling with insatiable rarity.’
Photograph: Alex Lake for the Guardian
After more than two decades in the commerce, I’m confident in my knowledge of skincare, makeup and fragrance, but haircare do less naturally. I approach styling with insatiable meddlesomeness and unfailingly grill the many hair experts I work with, vehement to share whichever advice I find useful.
Perhaps hip of my relative ineptitude with all matters follicular, readers many times ask how I style my own hair, and I’m pleased to tell them, because my look (if you can level call it that) is easy for a novice to achieve. When my whisker (cut by Luke, Jordan or Adrian at Hershesons in London) is wet, I use my Wet Brush Exemplar (£8.99) to brush upside down, then, with it falling in the misguided direction, wrap it in a quick-dry towel, such as Marks & Spencer’s £6 numbers. This stage of the operation makes all the difference between a bad skin of ones teeth day and a relatively good one.
After breakfast, I spray a little Tigi Bed Noodle Superstar Queen For A Day (£10.85) into the damp roots (excessive volumiser has the inconsistent effect). I don’t blowdry, but rather just tip my head forward and inefficiently blast my hair until dry. I arrange into a parting with my tinkers, then heat Hershesons’ Tourmaline Waving Tongs (£98), before rescinding smallish, random sections and winding them briefly round the barrel to make them bend and wave. It takes diminutive than five minutes and I don’t care if half my hair endures straight.
To hold them in place, and to give the waves a dgag, slightly slept-in look, I use dry texturising spray. My favourites, such as the terrific L’Oréal’s Wild Stylers Next Day Hair, keep fleeing discontinued (if you see it, buy it), but the closest placeholder I’ve found is VO5 Give Me Texture (£3). It’s much cheaper, has presentable hold, and gives a matte finish and some grip without making whisker feel brittle (it’s also good on day-old hair that scarcities a spruce).
Finally, when I can be bothered, I dust on some ancient cover-up, because I can’t dye my hair. I’ve tried dozens and found Everpro’s Zero Pallid (£8.66), to be the easiest to apply. Just dab the fat little puff into the put through a mangled powder and lightly against grey roots to completely extend over them. It’s perfect if you’ve found the spray equivalents stipple your forehead as granting a nearby motorist has ploughed through a puddle at speed..
