Editor s letter 24 May 2020 This is getting hairy YOU Magazine
Editor's letter 24 May 2020: This is getting hairy! - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life Editor’ s letter This is getting hairy By You Magazine - May 24, 2020 On the regular Zoom and FaceTime meetings I have every week, people have stopped being polite to me about it. What started as the odd, ‘No, don’t be silly, it’s still looking great!’ when I had a little moan has now become barefaced, all-out guffawing and comments like, ‘Oh boy, yeah… What are you going to do about it?’ Good question. What am I going to do about my hair? Time was when my short, choppy pixie crop made me feel very smart and in control. It’s a fuss-free cut that has served me well for nearly 15 years. I can be washed, blow-dried and out of the door in 20 minutes. But short hair needs regular maintenance. My last trip to the salon was in late February. As I write this today, from my kitchen in mid-May… Well, I think I’d be breaching all sorts of trade-description regulations by calling it a ‘hairstyle’ at this point. The overgrown toadstool shape currently crowning my head makes Boris Johnson’s barnet look sleek and groomed by comparison. The bonus? Thanks to those endless video work meetings, I get to stare at my own unlovable moptop for hours, every day. My husband bought himself some clippers and gave himself a buzzcut. I’m starting to wonder whether I should do the same. It’s just hair, right? No, actually. It’s not ‘just’ hair. While our rational minds know that our collective bad hair days (months) are not the most pressing issue right now, there’s a reason Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Hair is everything, Anthony!’ speech in Fleabag became such an instant cultural touchstone. Perhaps it’s because there’s so much we cannot control outside our own locked-down walls right now that we find comfort in the things we can. Take away our hair salons and you’ve taken away a small, but significant modicum of control – of comfort – that we value more than ever. Trifling matter though it may seem to many, I’m willing to wager that even plenty of NHS nurses, whose minds are definitely on higher things, are also fantasising about the day they can finally get their roots done. So we decided, here at YOU, to do what we can about it. I can’t unlock the doors of the country’s salons and frogmarch the hairdressers back to their washbasins. Rumour has it that I googled ‘How much is a hazmat suit?’ with the intention of buying both it and an Uber ride for my beloved stylist George, but I cannot possibly comment on that. What we can do is enlist the experts to help us all. So our beauty director Edwina Ings-Chambers has put together a super A-team, sharing incredibly useful tips, tricks, tools and other handy hints to eke the best out of your hair for just a little longer. I know. It’s just hair. Hair isn’t everything. But, you know, it’s not nothing either. Enjoy the issue. Editor’ s picks A few things I’m coveting this week Pasta truly does taste better when you have time to make it from scratch. Pasta maker, £35, oliverbonas.com Great colours, washable and all purchases net a donation to Masks 4 NHS Heroes. Face masks, £10 each, plumo.com For a cheeky pop of colour peeping out of cropped jeans. Socks, £14.50, pantherella.com RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved