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" This story starts when I decided to give up my ruinous blow-dry habit at New Year and learn to style my own hair. Ten failed frizzy barnets later, my husband rebelled. \u201CI want your hair to look all K Mid again like it used to,\u201D he sighed. \u201CIf you like, I\u2019ll learn to do it myself.\u201D I jumped at the offer \u2013 who wouldn\u2019t? \u2013 and arranged us a rendezvous at the Aveda Institute on High Holborn one very cold wet Wednesday - the kind of weather that kills any hairdo at 50 paces. The d\u00E9cor of this giant salon and spa is industrial and pared back, rather than frilly and feminine, so George didn\u2019t feel too out of place. Once my hair was washed, we settled down to learn the dark arts of the professional hair stylists. Jay Doan, a master director at the salon, entered into the spirit of the occasion and taught George with skill and patience. It started badly when he got styling goop all over his hands and all over the floor while he was trying to work it into my dripping locks, and sectioning off the top of my hair with a tail comb proved a challenge, but once we got over the preliminaries, he and Jay set to with a will. I sat quietly, sipping a coffee, only wincing occasionally when he got the hairdryer nozzle too singeingly close to my scalp. \u2018It\u2019s all about heat, tension and product,\u2019 explained Jay in the kind of language George responds to. They both took the whole exercise very seriously, oblivious to the amused giggles of the other stylists. She did one half, he did the other, and I emerged with a shiny, glossy \u2018do that has had spontaneous compliments from colleagues, friends, and, this morning, my son\u2019s schoolteacher. It even survived the downpour outside. Maybe there\u2019s some extra magic to a blowdry done with love? Sasha Slater  Aveda Damage Remedy daily hair repair \u00A320.50, Aveda.co.ukAveda Pure Abundance style prep \u00A319.50, Aveda.co.ukAveda Brilliant universal styling cr\u00E8me \u00A316, Aveda.co.uk A blowdry lesson with a master director, \u00A360The Aveda Institute, 174 High Holborn, London WC1V 7AA GO TO: 10 OF THE BEST LONDON BLOW-DRY BARS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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