Say NO to SuperclassA

Subtlety is over, step off all you casually tousled tamed manes, when is comes to hair there's something crazy in the air... or so the world of celebrity says. Deyn cracked out a different colour for every catwalk, Patricia Field, stylist for Sex & The City, rocks bright red at 60 and Winehouse hobbles Bambi-like beneath her beast of a beehive. Now the usual beauty emporiums have hair dyes, treatments, serums, sachets...all ricocheting of shelves. They are massively expensive and lack any real freedom or creativity. A mission to find a hair colour gets stressful. So when I in search of a change I stumbled across Paul's Hair World, Oldham St in Manchester.

Much like the Beauty stores of south London, it caters for Afro Caribbean and Indian hair needs and makes shopping for toiletries a much more exotic experience. Specialising in fake and real hair extensions and weaves they provide every colour, texture and length you could imagine. However there are all other kinds of surprising special treats. Colourful plastic clips, Velcro rollers and vats of cocoa butter you could sink your foot in and all at really good prices. This small shop served as a happy throw back to hazy days in summer spent browsing 'Black Beauty' in Brixton. Knocking Ghetto earrings off the stand while the woman behind the glass cabinet pipes 'Watch da Weave gurl!'. It is the place to go for some unexpected hair inspiration and its fun too. They sell crazy colours for the knock off price of £2.69 half the southern price. Go nuts with colours like Pinkisimmo or Canary Yellow and Platinum will tone down any brass-like blondes. Some of the most vibrant shades come artistically named; Vermillion, Cyclamen and Bordeaux.


I would like to herald all those who decide to throw caution to the quickly moving air and do something crazy with the hair on their head. Because at the end of it all its only hair and when you die it carries on growing and you haven't much choice about its colour then.