Going to the salon has a deep, real and powerful impact on my daughter’s life.
An epigram I learnt as a child was that “the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys”. By extension, I would like to contribute the following insight: “The difference between men and young girls is the price of their curls.” Clever, right? Of course. My learnings in this space have been garnered over several years spent warming the parents’ barstools at the back of Kurlz & Kutz, my seven-year-old daughter’s salon of choice.
Now before I was blessed with my daughter, my knowledge of hair was rudimentary at best. I have cultivated a hairstyle that can sustain intervals of three months between haircuts. The whole hog is braids, with extensions. That will add a couple of hours to your time on the parents’ bench. It will be leavened somewhat by the Kurlz & Kutz service offering. The salon has DStv, free Wi-Fi, a small kids’ library, digital tablets, and a freezer selling ice-creams for both kids and adults.of watching a Springbok World Cup match at that salon last year. If I’m honest with myself, that was as much by choice as circumstance.
If we push the limits and only return to the salon after a two-month interval, the impact is significant. Her “kitchen” – the back part of the hair by the small of the neck – will be riddled with knots and there will be more than an hour of tears to remove them. No, with black hair, you need to do the time, pay the ticket and do it regularly.
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