Pay R215 for a wash, cut, half-head of highlights and a blow-dry at Classique Hair and Beauty, valued at R860 (save 75%)

Though they say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, a person’s hairstyle also says a lot about them. A neat, symmetrical cut screams responsibility, bright colours exude confidence and a head full of slithering snakes warns against eye-contact. Adjust your hair’s communications and pay R215 for a wash, cut, half-head of highlights and a blow-dry at Classique Hair and Beauty.

Trips to the hairdresser are usually accompanied by the same sort of feeling you get when you go really high on the swings – equal parts gleeful delight and an unsettling sort of anxiety. Luckily, the highly-trained hair maestros at Classique know exactly how to settle those haircut-butterflies.

Like any trip to the hairdresser, your mane-maintenance session at Classique starts with a wash, which everyone knows might as well double as a head-massage. While you kick back and let those soothing fingers get your hair squeaky clean, you can decide just how you’re going to revamp your hair. Whether you can’t bear to part with your length and just get the ends trimmed, or you go for a whole new style, the qualified stylists can chop you whatever couture coif you want with a few skilled flicks of the scissors. Even if you take along a page ripped from the glossies with a layered, asymmetrical A-line, they’ll probably be able to recreate it on your head. Once you’ve got your locks trimmed to the right length and level of elegance, add some pizazz with highlights. Unlike a college student, your stylist won’t highlight everything. A half-head of highlights are the perfect way to add a bit of that I’ve been at the beach lift, even to heads that haven’t seen natural light outside of lunch breaks in years.

Considering not even the most couture cut looks its best when it’s soaked and limp like your nephew tipped a bowl of noodles over your head, get it jazzed up with a blow-dry.  With your locks washed, trimmed and tinted, you can leave Classique feeling like the kind of beauties you see in old movies.

Hairy Fact: During the uprising of the Transylvanian village folk, a march to Dracula’s castle was planned in hopes that they would rid their town of his pesky blood-thirsty ways.  They were shocked to discover that Dracula wasn’t in fact drinking the blood but was instead using it to cover up the grey that had started to grow in his once-vibrant red hair.