I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing I knew I could change it.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color perm without setting which had never been done before.