I’m not entirely sure that a haircut will turn my husband into Daniel Craig.
Yet, this is what he asked for last time he lobbed into the hairdresser, seeking what is essentially a short back and sides, with a tiny bit of length on the top.
I don’t want to be the one to burst his bubble, but it’s kind of the cut he already has.
But he wanted something different and the Daniel Craig look was what he was aiming for.
My husband has naturally curly hair. The first time I met him, he was at great pains to straighten it and it wasn’t until we went into the surf for the first time that I saw that his hair was quite different to what he was trying to achieve.
I suggested he leave it curly and he was bagged at work for a while for ‘having a perm’.
The same work colleagues also had a go at him years later for applying hair dye. Most of them had gone from grey to white by then and they thought that anyone of a similar age should be the same. They clearly don’t live the stress-free life enjoyed by my own Daniel Craig. His hair is still more the colour of earth than clay.
But I digress. His hair is pretty straight now, with a few kinks here and there, just enough to make him not look like Daniel Craig.
He was regaling this story at a recent birthday party, turning this way and that, hoping that someone might notice the uncanny resemblance.
No one really cottoned on to the idea. Apart from a similar short back and sides that is pretty much shared by most men of his age, the resemblance stopped there.
The craggy face, the sparkling eyes, the charisma, the … I might stop there. The idea of the actual Daniel Craig living with me is starting to have an effect.
Instead, the birthday boy chimed in that he was wanting the Sean Connery look.
He too had a sort of short back and sides with a bit of length on top and a bit of beard stubble. He too turned this way and that and we all nodded politely, but none of us wondered just what James Bond was doing at the party.
