I'M AFRAID OF THE HAIRDRESSER

Yes, to get straight to the point. Terrified even. Your hair is quite important I think and with a bad haircut you immediately feel less good. A one-time bad hair day is already bad, but can you imagine that bad hair is a chronic situation? The horror!

The annoying result of this fear is that I haven't seen a hairdresser's chair in months and you can really see that. It's greasy and dry at the same time, frizzing more than ever and never ever sits the way I want it to. There's no longer any model to speak of and the only solution is to either style it every day (talk about bad for your hair), load it up with conditioner every day (even worse) or just day in day out put it in a bun (so boring).

By the way, this is nothing new. A few years ago, I managed to go a year and a half without going to a salon and that resulted in a hairstyle that was quite, eh, wild. And not in a good way. Look, the thing is: I have pretty difficult hair. It's very thin, quite brittle and it curls. That's a deadly combination. One wrong snip and I look like a middle-aged woman. Nothing against middle-aged women, but I'm damn 27 and I want to look like that.

‘HELLO IT MUST NOT BE CUT TOO SHORT NOW’

The rare time I do dare to enter a hair salon, my request sounds a bit like “yes well you can cut it, but actually I don't want you to see it. Just the tips of the tips. And then the tips of that. Can you actually cut without cutting it? Is that an option?” Then I tense up with every snip out of fear because wow watch out, aren't you cutting too short there? Uh not too short okay, you remember? HELLO IT MUST NOT BE CUT TOO SHORT NOW.

So it's a hassle. Anyone who can recommend a hairdresser in Amsterdam who is very good with traumatized people and is an expert in thin frizzy curly hair, I would be very grateful.