Suzanne Harrington: From hair-do to hair-don't — I just don't care about hair-care any more

I want a hair holiday... I want to break up with my hair

Suzanne Harrington: hair today, gone tomorrow. Pic: Andrew Dunsmore

On my way to the hair salon to get my newly short hair cut even shorter, I tell my partner about what happened when my sister shaved her head a while back, going from a regulation shoulder-length lady hairdo to suedehead in less than 10 minutes.

Her partner thought she was using her new baldy look to signal an unexpected rerouting in a Sapphic direction, a route on which he was not invited; that she was visually breaking up with him, via her hair.