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During a rummage through a box of old stuff at my mum’s house recently, I stumbled across a picture key ring of me and three friends on a popular ‘upside down’ fairground ride, aged 15. I immediately shared it with the girls on social media #tbt. There I was, loose brown hair flung messily across my head, wearing a slightly stunned expression on my face.

“You look EXACTLY the same Lucy,” said one friend. ‘Thanks,’ I replied, the written word failing to capture my incredulous tone. “She’s right,” another waded in. “It’s your hair, it hasn’t changed a bit”.

My hair-down rut

And with that it hit me: my hair hasn’t changed. Even before the picture was taken I have always worn my hair down and unstyled. OK, so there were the countless times my mum pulled my thin, wispy locks into a flyaway French plait for weddings and birthdays but that’s where the problems started.

The other girls with longer, thicker, glossier hair were all pulling their hair into tight high ponytails, adorned with colourful scrunchies (it was the early Nineties) and I was there with, what I considered, a frumpy, unflattering ‘do that made me look like Bastian from 1984’s The NeverEnding Story (a boy).

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