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My head whipped up from my Slack messages, Oh!
Photographed by Irving Penn,Vogue,October 1997
That is something I actually feel passionately about!
You see, TheMason Pearson brushis, in many ways, the beauty madeleine of my childhood.
(After all, Proust had great hair.)
When I turned seven, I started to receive a fairly arbitrary weekly allowance.
A supplemental fee would be awarded for brushing mamas hair in bed while she read Enid Blyton to me.
Its the only brush Ive ever used and ever will use!
I would never go back!
She was patronizing hair legend Philip Kingsley at the time and his Mayfair salon used the superior brush.
It was a different league!
She said, frustrated by my probing as towhatexactly makes a brush superior.
I liked a hard, hearty brush.
It had a mix of bristles and a bouncy base.
The plastic cut through the hair, the bristles stimulate the scalp, continued my mother.
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