Hairdressers cut some rug on the dance floor

IT WASN’T quite murder on the dance floor but there were enough scissors, clippers, razors, irons, tongs, dryers and sprays flying to make the function room no place for the faint-hearted or conservatively-coiffured.

The weapons of mass creation were wielded with frenzy in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel yesterday as stylists, colourists and technicians from all over the country went head to head in the 2007 Irish Hairdressing Championships.

“It’s like hand to hand combat out there on the dance floor,” a breathless Eoin Wright of the Irish Hairdressers Federation hollered over the racket of rapid fire snipping, steaming, blasting, brushing, spraying and an audience given to frequent gasps of excitement.