Pay R149 for a wash, cut and blow-dry OR Pay R390 for a wash, cut, Schwarzkopf colour and blow-dry at Contra-Dixions (save up to 61%)

If someone tried to iron you flat, throw you into a wind machine, covered you in something resembling liquid glue and sprayed a stiffening-aerosol in your face every day, you probably wouldn’t be too pleased. Is it any wonder then that your hair can sometimes become as unmanageable as a three year old after a sugar binge? Get your tantrum-throwing tresses back under control and save up to 61% on a wash, cut and blow-dry or all of the above plus a full head of Schwarzkopf Colour 10 at Contra-Dixions.

When you find your once-silken strands in a strop, acting like a haystack or simply refusing to cooperate, the stylish Seapoint salon should be your first choice for coif-control – the professional hair stylists are better than riot-police when it comes to mollifying mutinous manes. After a wash that’s more like a head-massage than anything, and once all the hair-spray and other miscellaneous mane-managing substances have been removed from your stressed strands, sit back and let skilled scissors go to work.

While the thought of getting a new hairstyle can bring with it hallucinations of cackling stylists waving rusty kitchen scissors and electric razors in the general direction of your hair, one step into the trendy salon will chase away any doubts you might have. Whether you’re going for a stylish A-line bob or you want to leave your flowing mane Rapunzelish, without the straggly split ends, the trained hands of Contra-Dixion’s stylists can turn the most lacklustre locks into a runway-worthy couture coif.

If you’re tired of your mirror, mirror on the wall showing you the same mousy-brown mane every morning, a total tonal overhaul could be just the thing to save you from a monotony-induced bout with a bottle depilatory-laced shampoo. Whether you decide to go a red to rival Elmo or blacker than a new tube of mascara, a new Schwarzkopf Colour 10 is the perfect remedy for humdrum hair. This unique range offers six new premium high-lift shades and contains a unique High Speed Booster with hair rebuilding amino acids Arginin and Glycin. This innovative new product also offers up to 40% increased hair protection and takes only 10 minutes unlike other colour treatments that can take up to one hour and 30 minutes. Instead of leaving you looking like you and your fabulous new do just walked under a particularly sad cloud, the blow-dry will give you a head of hair you can toss without covering everyone in rain.

Once your tresses have been tamed and tinted, trimmed and blow-dried to be ready for their close-up, all you need to do is perfect the ever-popular glamorous over-the-shoulder hair flick and wait for the compliments to start pouring in.

Hairredous Fact: During the hairdresser’s strike of the early 1970’s, Americans everywhere started flocking to makeshift hairstylists. Situated on the Mexican border, these ‘salons’ often used unsanctioned tools, like sharpened spoons and hedge-cutters to shear shaggy heads.