article_snippet: It might well look better with a different cut —
article_snippet: Since I was five it has always been shoulder length or just below with a choppy fringe.
article_snippet: Sometimes it is longer, sometimes there are a few layers, but though I am 53, I haven’t changed my style since childhood.
article_snippet: Back then, my grandmother cut my style with kitchen shears; now Marcio, my lovely Portuguese hairdresser, uses high-tech scissors at vast expense.
article_snippet: and I have never been tempted to alter my hair again.
article_snippet: I was 36 and the hairdresser talked me into having a really short haircut.
article_snippet: For while I thought that cutting my hair would make me feel like Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday — young, free and liberated
article_snippet: my hair took about six months to grow back
article_snippet: — the longest six months of my life — and since then I have done nothing to it except a careful trim and colour to keep the grey hairs at bay.