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.
” Then when Natasha met her now husband who is trans, he shared his bad experience at a mainstream salon. “Before my husband Chris’ transition he was told that he couldn’t have a short back and sides because he was a woman,” she said. “It was a horrible experience for him before he met me but I know what some salons can be like. I also have ADHD and struggle with all the distractions of a regular salon.