Being a hairdresser is not easy. These pros tell us what they have experienced most crazy over the years.
Place of transformation, but also of speech release, the hair salon is one of the last non-medical spaces where you confide without appointment. In a society where isolation is progressing, especially among elderly women, hairdressers become listening figures, sometimes despite themselves. Thus, the secrets are made over the blows of scissors.
In Bordeaux, Sullyvan, a hairdresser for fifteen years, listens as much as he cuts. “”We could write books with everything we hear“, He says. Once in front of the mirror, customers are in the guard.”The most discreet, the most elegant women are often those that tell the most frank stories, always with a certain grace“He says.
Some scenes refer to practices from another time. “”An elderly client went discreetly to change. When she returned, she only wore under her bathrobe.“In front of Sullyvan’s surprised air, she explains to him that it was once done in certain fairs.
Sometimes the show also becomes the witness of unexpected events. One day, three regular customers arrive at the same time: a woman, her husband, and her mistress. An appointment error that turns into confrontation. “”The two women began to argue. Man no longer knew where to get. But our role is not to intervene in their privacy“Explains Sullyvan.
For his part, Jordan, a hairdresser for thirteen years, has also been faced with unforeseen situations. In Brittany, a customer asks her a cut inspired by a video seen on the internet: she wants him to use an ax. He firmly declines the request. Later, in Paris, a woman arrives with a confused request. She asks him for an incoherent haircut: a square, shaved on the sides with a very very short bangs. “”She had started shaving her skull alone, randomly“, Says the professional. Seeing that she is not in her normal state, Jordan makes him sign a document ensuring his agreement. The next day, she returns to the show and expresses her regrets.
It also happens that some lighter meetings leave a lasting memory. At 19, when he started in London, Jordan regularly heads an 80 -year -old lady with pink hair that he nicknamed Madame Tagada. The hairdresser entrusted him with his difficulty in finding Tagada strawberries in the English capital. She then offers him a challenge: if she finds it before him, Jordan must dye his pink hair. “EIt returned a few hours later with several sachets. I kept his word. After that, we were called ‘grandma and tagada grandson’.“”
