I believe that in every persons life there is a time when they decide that the hairstyle they have now, is the one they will always have. No longer will they follow the trends and fashions of society. They have grown comfortable with their look and that is it, forever. They are taking that haircut to the grave!

When I see people in public that have obviously reached that time in their lives I like to approach them and have a guess at the year they decided to call it quits. 1985? 1963? 1972?

Many men are forced by nature to choose a different hairstyle at some point in their life. It is hard to maintain a fashionable 80’s flat top when you have nothing on top. (However, I have seen some good balding mullets.) As a result, it is often the women whose hairstyles of long gone decades stand out, the 60’s beehive, the 70s “Farah Fawcett” wave and the 80s perm.

I often ask myself the question, "When will I reach that moment in my life?" Have I reached it already? Currently the messy mop of hair over the ears that was fashionable in the late 60s is back in style and I just can’t bring myself to do it. I always laughed at old cogers who had reached their defining hair moment in that period and always had hair layered over their ears. Cricketer Richie Benaud for example, no one has seen Richie’s ears since 1955! Other offenders that come to mind are reporters Mike Gibson and George Negus.

So perhaps I have already had my last change? Or maybe I’ll just wait until the next new trend, I’m sure I’ll like that better, or maybe the one after that…or the one after that…