In Japan, where so many cutting-edge trends start, hairdressers have acquired celebrity status: female students there recently rated hairdressing as "the job with the most imaginative appeal .Although P&G may be able to strengthen its new brand's global distribution and save some costs, Clairol has been losing market share in America, largely to L'Oréal.
My mum had a hairdresser's and I thought, "I'll have a crack at hairdressing".
Construction, hairdressing and motor vehicle engineering have similarly large imbalances.
Bridie Staunton, who ran a hairdressing business and occasionally played fiddle in Irish showbands, rarely had such times with her only child, Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton.
Productivity gains are not impossible in the service sector, but in some cases, such as hairdressing, they are harder to come by, and in other cases – think schools – they would not be especially desirable if increasing output-per-head meant bigger class sizes.
Whereas Fidel saw illegal private enterprise as an evil which could be overcome by teaching Cubans to be more revolutionary, Raúl seems to take a more pragmatic approach.He is quietly legalising chunks of the informal economy: Cubans can now legally buy building materials and mobile-phone connections, and sell services such as hairdressing and building work.
Courses on horse-care and hairdressing will no longer claim dubious parity with GCSEs.
We are on the ground fighting .The fighters keep their patches of the streets clean but have also graffitied the names of their various brigades over the schools, mosques, houses and hairdressing salons they have appropriated as bases.
It all seems rather more "Sex and the City" than Asian values, though the manicurists, pedicurists, cosmetologists and hairdressers toil diligently.Asked whether he wants to go to university, the holy grail of most Asian families, a young barber called Noel replies that he would rather open a hairdressing salon.
In its original form, the so-called "Bolkestein directive" was supposed to do the same for services, that is, for economic activities you cannot put on a train (like finance, hairdressing, or retailing).
Sitting in a former hairdressing salon adorned with mirrors and swivel chairs, Abu Omar echoes a warning common among moderate commanders: failure to arm them means people will turn to al-Qaeda-inspired groups instead.Indeed the jihadi Jabhat al-Nusra, originally a small outfit with a penchant for bombings, has started to find favour in rebel strongholds.
