Moving to India's capital city (Delhi) and my work HQs, commuting over an hour or more each day, I quickly realized the pollution was going to demand washing hair twice a day if I wasn't to break out from the trapped grime. I don't do shampoo as some of you know, but I *do* wash!

However, my waist-long hair is a bit of a challenge to wash just before a commute or late in the evening when I get home, as I don't use a dryer either. So... after two years of growing out in a rural/suburban idyll, it got the chop.

I trust my hair stylist implicitly --- I've never been unhappy with a cut she's given me and I usually tell her to 'do as you like' --- but this time I was apprehensive when she suggested a layered shoulder-length style I haven't worn since middle school, and which I hated back then. But I found I really loved the movement and illusion of volume she managed to add to my thinned hair.

Not sure if I can get it to stay as sleek, but yesterday, dressing in a tearing hurry for a last-minute hotel review, I inadvertently found myself looking like a movie extra from the 70s in Bollywood (the Indian movie industry in Mumbai, once called Bombay, hence Bolly...) --- I have the flipped out shoulder-length hair, the long narrow scarf, the tight leggings and the empire-waist tunic, and even an old-fashioned print on it.

Comments, suggestions, criticism all welcome, even though I had fun in this!

PS: Apologies for the ill-lit shots, especially the last. The designer of these hotel rooms was a neo-goth looking to make vampires feel at home!