About a year ago, I suddenly had something of an epiphany: for years, people had cut my hair in the same way, chopping off the dead ends to make way for hopeful new strands before drying and coiffuring it until I resembled a bargain basement version of Kate Middleton (pre-wedding). I always hated it, rushing home to wash it all over again before letting it dry naturally.

But I just assumed that the human condition is programmed to resent change in any form – particularly when it comes to hair – so I continued to repeat this process every few months. The aforementioned epiphany occurred when, for the first time ever, a hairdresser dried my hair with a diffuser, allowing me to leave the salon with fresh, bouncy curls that were far superior to anything I’d managed to achieve at home.

I felt more like myself, and vaguely ashamed of how subservient my feelings had become to my hair. But then, to paraphrase Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag, hair really is everything.

I started to actively pursue more information about curly hair. This is obviously quite difficult, as there is a multitude of different types of curls, from fine waves right through to afro hair, and so there is certainly no one-size-fits-all approach that is going to work.

This is how one woman learned to love and care for her fine, curly hair