Woman's Own

THERE’S NO STOPPING ME NOW

As I set about cutting my client’s hair, I caught sight of myself in the unforgiving salon mirror for just a few seconds before I was forced to look away. It was early 2019 and I’d just started working as a hairdresser. It had been my dream since I was a child, and while I loved the job, I realised that standing in front of a mirror every day for hours, when I hated what I saw,

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