1 That is takes a team of people to get us date-ready. Hello stylist, colourist, manicurist and beauty therapist!
2 That our new pink, blue, or purple streaks make us feel cool. We saw it on the runway so we don’t care if you don’t get it.
3 That sometimes, when we say we can’t go swimming because we have earache, it’s actually because we spent an hour straightening our hair.
4 The dunking us in a swimming pool when we’ve just had a new weave installed is a break-up worthy offence!
5 That bringing a hairdryer to a rustic retreat with no electricity makes us feel secure, so don’t question us.
6 That, ‘Just put a baseball cap on’ is not a helpful response when we’re whining that our hair looks weird.
7 That Miley Cyrus’ ‘do is a perfectly worthy topic of conversation, and there’s no need to be rolling your eyes at as.
8 That blowdrying it twice on a humid day isn’t obsessive; it’s the only way to avoid looking like a crazy hedgehog.
9 That a haircut so horrendous it makes us lock ourselves in the bathroom to cry is, sadly, part of being a woman.
10 That R2 000 on a virgin hair weave is an excellent investment and, accordingly, that you are strongly advised to look delighted for us, rather than clutching your head in horror.
11 That saying our hair looks like a helmet after we’ve spent 40 minutes wrestling with the straightening iron may severely limit your chances of hot sex tonight.
12 That standing in front of the mirror holding a piece of brown paper against our forehead, so we decide whether we’d look good with a fringe is a perfectly reasonable and constructive way to pass the time.
13 That the most important thing of all is that you love us as much at 6am, with a wild bird’s nest, as you do at 6pm, when we bounce out of the salon.
