April 2024

For a lot of Muslim women who wear the hijab, hair salons have traditionally been a no-go zone. But slowly, spaces are being created for them “I remember travelling what then gave the look of a seven-hour journey, simply to get to the hairdressers. We lived in just a little town just outside of London, and so for each occasion from Eid to weddings, my sisters, my mum and I might take the train into Marylebone to go to the one hair salon my whole family went to,” Sarah Jamal tells Dazed. “At seven years old, I assumed it was special. At 15, I assumed it was simply annoying to travel over two...