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'@@ -1,0 +1,1 @@ +For some people it's the smell of freshly baked banana bread.<br>For others it's their newfound passion for knitting, or that adorable pandemic puppy.<br>But for me, the past months of will be mostly remembered for one thing and one thing only: my darling daughter's hair dramas.<br>I really shouldn't complain. So many young people have sunk into a swamp of despondency during lockdown, deprived of their friends and cut off from school.<br><br>If the worst that was ever to come out of this forced social experiment was a bit of green hair, I'd say we've got off lightly. Still, it's been quite a journey.<br>Not that I blame her. I messed around with my hair endlessly when I was her age, and I didn't have the excuse of being interned against my will for months with my ghastly parents, annoying little brother and no means of communication with the outside world, save social media and the occasional, very fleeting, interaction with the Deliveroo man.<br> Sarah Vine took her daughter Bea to Deme Thomas at George Northwood's salon in London, after suffering bad at-home hair dye jobs throughout lockdown. Pictured: Bea now<br> Sarah admitted she messed around with her hair endlessly when she was Bea's age.<br><br>Pictured: Bea now<br>So I can't blame her for indulging in attention-seeking stunts — and what could be more ‘look-at-me-everyone' than dyeing your hair?<br>At least it's better (not to mention a good deal less dangerous) than piercing her ears with a compass, which was her other boredom-buster.<br>Still, if I never again have to jump in the car at 10pm on a Sunday night to drive to the nearest 24-hour chemist in search of the last packet of Clairol Nice 'n Easy, while she howls at me down the phone about how her life is ruined because of her hair, I will be a happy woman.<br>Like I said, it's been a journey.<br><br>We started off mousy-brown with bleach-blonde tips, but quickly graduated to pink, followed in no particular order by purple and a rather lurid shade of electric blue, which segued into ectoplasm green (a result of trying to remove the blue), then a dubious shade of red and finally, because there was really nowhere left to go, a sort of blue-black with dirt undertones.<br> RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share One time I even spent an entire evening painstakingly pulling strands of hair through a 1980s throwback plastic cap, in an ill-fated DIY attempt at highlights, which resulted in a sort of orange striped effect reminiscent of the wallpaper I had on my bedroom wall in 1970s Stourbridge.<br><br>Oh, and a lot of tears. 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I may even have to replace the grout, which looks like it's wearing fake tan.<br>In fairness to my daughter, I don't think she's on her own in her quest to find meaning in the box-dye section of Superdrug (by far the widest selection, in case you're interested).<br> Sarah said every other young person on the streets seems to have hair that looks like it's been caught in an explosion in a crayon factory.<br><br>Pictured: Bea with blonde hair<br>It's clearly been a bit of a thing in lockdown. Every other young person I see on the street these days seems to have hair that looks like it's been caught in an explosion in a crayon factory — not to mention quite a few adults.<br><br>And, of course, we older ladies have had to face up to the one thing we never want to talk about: greys. I have one friend who, defeated by hers, has gone a very peculiar shade of peach, rather like a Bellini.<br>I myself had a go on the old roots, only to end up with unflattering ginger sideburns.<br>I now make do with one of those wash-out colour sprays, which work well enough until you scratch your head and end up with brown fingernails.<br><br>(The L'Oreal one is my favourite because it has a pointy precision nozzle and doesn't spit, which some of them do, resulting in a most unflattering splattered effect.)<br>I suspect this is partly to do with the fact that in recent years hairdressing, and grooming in general, has become so much more accessible and affordable that we've lost the knack.<br><br>My mother, for example, successfully dyed her own hair to cover the grey for years, having learnt how to do so out of necessity at a relatively young age.<br> Deme Thomas, colourist at George Northwood's salon in London, said people apply box dyes badly.<br><br>Pictured: Bea with pink hair<br>She used to wax her own legs and paint her own nails, too, if you can believe such a thing (that's meant to be a wry joke, by the way, please don't write in).<br>But since the boom in affordable beauty treatments, all those at-home rituals have fallen by the wayside, replaced by a consumer culture which, when the pandemic struck, was stopped in its tracks.<br>The idea of not being able to cut your hair simply because the salons are all closed would have been anathema to my grandmother's generation, who managed very well with a bit of practice and the kitchen scissors.<br>Anyway, it is what it is and we are all quasi-incompetents.<br><br>Thank God for the professionals who — hallelujah — are back in business to fix those DIY hair disasters.<br>In my daughter's case, this means eradicating layer upon layer of badly applied home dye — and turning her botch-job into something worthy of a lady who, in less than a month's time, turns 18.<br>The big problem with box dyes, explains Deme Thomas, colourist at George Northwood's salon in London and owner of exquisitely balayaged caramel tresses, is that people apply it so badly.<br> Deme added that it can be relatively easy to correct bad dye jobs at the back, but harder at the front.<br><br>Pictured: Bea with grey hair<br> Bea's hair took the best part of an hour to get all the foils in place, and then another 30 to 40 minutes of processing.<br><br>Pictured: Bea now<br>Basically, they start at the front and the crown — the easy-to-reach bits — and then by the time they get to the back their arms are aching and they're bored.<br>The result is that there tends to be plenty of colour around the temples and the fringe, and not enough at the nape.<br>This contributes to that characteristic uneven look you get with home dye, and also that tell-tale flatness of tone which makes the colour look unnatural.<br>This also means that it can be relatively easy to correct bad dye jobs at the back, but harder at the front.<br>It was Deme who was tasked with tackling my [https://www.wonderhowto.com/search/daughter%27s%20handiwork/ daughter's handiwork].<br><br>Rather than try to eradicate the dye completely, she decided to lift it in sections, using foils to seal in the product and get maximum results. Starting at the front and working back meant the denser patches would have longer to work.<br>As processes go, it was incredibly painstaking.<br>It took the best part of an hour to get all the foils in place, and then another 30 to 40 minutes of processing. The teenager jiggled and texted and even disappeared off to the bathroom to make the inevitable TikTok.<br>The results, however, were worth it.<br><br>Beautiful, multidimensional layers of colour in shades of caramel that add texture and volume. Deme finished the whole thing off with a conditioning gloss to add shine, and then James Benoit, whose regular clients include Claudia Winkleman, did some clever twiddly stuff with the scissors.<br>The end result: from teenager to almost human in less than three hours.<br>A miracle.<br> '