How we learned to embrace our curly frizz

‘Frizzy, long, grey hair seems to be what’s in these days,’ says Jill Enfield. Photograph: Andreas Kuehn/Getty

I too hated my wavy/frizzy hair for decades like Diana Spechler (I spent decades straightening my ‘Jewish hair’ – until I realised I was hiding my true self, 5 August). Long, straight hair was fashionable in my youth in the 1960s, so, like Spechler, I pulled, pushed, ironed and generally tortured my hair into straightness.

Unlike hers, straightness was when mine was shiny. But a drop of rain or a damp atmosphere would ruin it – the fringe frizzed up, waves and squiggles appeared, and so I hated rain. Then came Covid and hairdresser-lessness. And I thought, sod it, I’ve fought my curls for 60 years, now let them do their own thing. And everybody told me they loved my curly hair!