MARGOT ROBBIE: A NEW HAIR MUSE

There are few people who haven’t produced a picture of someone else when sitting in the hairdresser’s seat. They used to be tatty things, the size of receipts, dog-eared, ripped from magazines and kept in the depths of purses. Now there’s a digital filing system, on Instagram, which acts as something of a moodboard, instead of a definitive, yes I know my existing hair bears no resemblance to the pictured person, but hairdressers can work miracles, right?

Well this summer there’s a new muse, and the image is singular - of Margot Robbie on the cover of British VOGUE's August issue. “Three clients have sent me this image in the last day to ask if it’s achievable,” says Cetera Lamb, a senior colourist at John Frieda. VOGUE covers always send Instagram and Twitter into a tailspin. A vocal chorus swoons over the styling, the make-up, the mastery and the mood. This time though, the insistent cries were for the hair. OMG, the ineffably insouciant, French girl f**king hair! The lash-skimming fringe that’s feathery and short up top, but that falls, either side, into a perfect, face-framing oval, skimming her cheekbones as if to say, Bonjour mon cheri!