“Are you going anywhere nice?” “Got any holidays planned?” “Have you heard about…” insert gossip here.
Yes, a trip to the hairdressers is normally layered with chitchat, noise of other customers, commercial radio blasting through the speakers and of course the sound cutting, snipping and drying.
At one Yorkshire hairdressers’ you can ask for a silent appointment in ‘The Quiet Room’ upstairs - where you can even have the mirror covered up.
We sent one of our roving reporters, Sophie Mei Lan Malin, to experience The Quiet Room inside Opal Hair Salon in Ossett.
Yes, a trip to the hairdressers is normally layered with chitchat, noise of other customers, commercial radio blasting through the speakers and of course the sound cutting, snipping and drying.
At one Yorkshire hairdressers’ you can ask for a silent appointment in ‘The Quiet Room’ upstairs - where you can even have the mirror covered up.
We sent one of our roving reporters, Sophie Mei Lan Malin, to experience The Quiet Room inside Opal Hair Salon in Ossett.
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00:00It's raining outside and my hair is frizzy but it's just as well because I'm off to a silent hairdresser's.
00:07Yes, it's Sunday. I don't fancy chit-chat and actually at this hairdresser's you can ask for the silent treatment.
00:14Yeah, there's a silent room upstairs.
00:17So I'm very excited about trying it out because I don't know about you,
00:21but sometimes I like to just go and zone out when I'm at the hairdresser's
00:25rather than sitting chit-chatting about my holidays that I'm not going on
00:30or any gossip what Deirdre's doing down road.
00:33No, this is just totally silent.
00:35But let's see how it is. I'm not sure if it will be slightly awkward.
00:39Natasha Richardson set up Opal Hair as an all-inclusive salon
00:45for people from all different communities and all different backgrounds.
00:51As she herself has ADHD, she decided to set up the quiet room upstairs.
00:58A tranquil place that people who want to have the hair done in silence
01:04and if they want to have the mirror covered.
01:07No windows of people looking in.
01:09A place to privately fit wigs or talk about anything if they do want to talk.
01:16It's up to them whether they talk, they lead the conversation.
01:20She says the way it works is she just won't extend the conversation.
01:24She'll just be interested back.
01:27Obviously, I had a few interview questions, but other than that,
01:31I'd have the quiet room every time.