Mexico

So! After a busy year, I’ve been on a five-week break. (This part whispered guiltily… )Yes, I missed the snow!

Off I went to Mexico, with a rucksack. Such a traveller! I flew from town to city to beach and enjoyed five long weeks of colour saturation and texture overload… It was heaven.

I also had a real hair re-think – as you do when you’ve read all your magazines and finished your seventh novel and start wondering what happened to this particular character, only to realise they belonged to the book before last!

Anyhow, I have become inspired by a movie that I saw on the flight out: Julie and Julia. If you haven’t seen the movie, the character chooses to learn a recipe a day, cook it and write a blog all about it. This led me on my holiday to think about my own career and decide that this will be my Julie and Julia year! Armed with an ever-ready client – a doll’s head on a stand in my lounge (boyfriend not too happy as it doesn’t sit well next to his Eames chairs!) – I intend this year to learn a new hairstyle every week.

This is more tricky than it seems, as my schedule is completely nuts. But to assist me I have purchased a pile of hair books and  I am going back to hair school, in the form of a theatre hair course, and to Central Saint Martins College of Art to study Trend…
Gosh, I feel liberated just writing it! Just like the movie!

So I shall keep a diary of all I learn and I will photos of my work (as long as you promise not to leave rude comments!)…
What do you think?