How would most of us look after a boat trip on a windy waterway? In need of a comb, maybe, a bit dishevelled or, at worst, with hair like something you could nest in. So the wonder for some of us when we watched Amal Alamuddin zip about the Venice canals was not so much that she was marrying George Clooney, but that hair — long, blow-dried, lustrous, voluminous and, yes, swishy but never wind-swept, tangled or messy. It’s a style that most women envy: not neat, not hair-sprayed into submission, not a barnet, but hair that moves — and yet never tangles. Kate Middleton has it, ditto Cheryl Cole and Liz Hurley.
A combination of the right hair and a great blow-dry probably go