Make The Cut

Your next trip to the hairdresser could make a child very happy indeed. Look’s Maxine Eggenberger reveals how cutting her hair short meant more to her than she ever thought possible…

- Maxine Eggenberger

'Is your name Goldilocks?’ Ah, yes, the four words that sum up my childhood. I have always had long, blonde hair and, growing up with it stretching down past my waist, Goldilocks became a nickname of sorts. One I detested. I was a complex child. However, as I sat in ghd’s Dean Street studio in London last week, I couldn’t help but think what it would have been like as a six year old not to have hair, and worse still, to be fighting a life-threatening disease in the process.

It’s incomprehensible but, the reality is, as we learn more about childhood illness, record a