Pressure mounts as I try to meet writing deadlines. My current article seems more difficult to write than others. Being with clients is a great counter point to writing. Working with my hands, feeling the hair, studying hairlines, discerning differences between tones in the hair. My fingers move, as if it's all been mapped out before. They know just what to do.
Each client is so different. My last one yesterday is a bit quirky, funny and down to earth. We laughed about the round brush that felt tortuous to her the first time she sat in my chair. She kept pulling away, really, as if I was pulling hair right out of her head. As I was drying her hair yesterday, she said, "Are you sure that is not that brush?"
I giggled, "No, it's not." I pulled every brush out of my box, and sure enough, we spotted the bad brush. Her eyes grew to the size of golf balls, "That's it!" She shrieked.
"I knew you would recognize it." She is a photographer. In fact, we are going to trade a headshot of myself for the website and my blog (I dislike the current one), for her haircut and color yesterday.
She said, "Why don't we take a picture of the brush, in different settings." So, don't be surprised if you see a series of photos posted soon, entitled, "The Hair Brush."
I was at a party the other night. It was the birthday of a fellow writer's husband. Our other fellow writer was there and is currently going through chemo. She has breast cancer. She is a lovely woman to talk to, and a talented writer. With our backs leaned against the wall, she said, "Now that I've lost my hair, I find myself staring at people and imagining what they would look like bald." Hair is one of the most definitive features on our body, and if we didn't have it, how vulnerable is that?