Lost and Found in Paris by Lian Dolan

Author:Lian Dolan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Polly read the clue aloud for all to hear, slowly and softly, ending each line with a question mark in her voice.

If the gilded light should fade

When you hear house men have strayed

Here’s memory that tells me so

Here’s golden hair that falls below

I’ll touch the line of her chin

Like steel and glass from within

Come cut those locks at three, sweet maid.

It took her all of about twelve seconds to unravel the next Blackbird meetup spot, lest I’d forgotten that she was our high school valedictorian and magna cum laude Wellesley graduate. “It must be the site of Antoine’s, the famous Parisian hairstylist. He was the world’s first celebrity hairdresser. And his salon was at Galeries Lafayette, on Haussmann. See ‘house man’? Haussmann. And the steel-and-glass reference? That’s clearly the spectacular atrium there.”

Compelling but not complete. “Aren’t there other steel-and-glass atriums in Paris? Maybe even on Haussmann?”

“Of course, but not as famous or a spectacular as GL. And Antoine created the Joan of Arc haircut. It was his first claim to fame. Not exactly sexy, but a very good start. His real entry to grand society was the creation of the bob, and it became the cut of the Jazz Age. He charged hundreds of dollars a haircut in the twenties. Before Vidal Sassoon or Sally Hershberger, there was Antoine!”

Dr. Polly Davis-de La Fontaine expounds on the History of Hairdressing. I felt like an idiot that I didn’t figure this all out. Maybe Nate was messing with my brain, because when Polly laid it all out, it seemed obvious. “You’re amazing! How do you know all this?”

“Oh, ladybug, I’ve been blogging for years now, and the number one question I’m asked by expats is about finding a decent salon with stylists who speak English. Well, that and how to find a gynecologist who looks like Olivier Martinez. But I’ve done dozens of posts about hair, haircuts, hair products, hair balls. I know my hair. I know my white girl hair and my Black girl hair. It’s like fate that you brought this to me.” Polly started dialing her phone to set up appointments and then paused. “There are three salons inside GL. What do you think we should do?”

Considering the complex choreography of Blackbird’s moves over the past thirty-six hours, I took an educated guess. “Call around. I bet one of them has an appointment on the books for me at three.”

Sure enough, the call to salon number two hit pay dirt. “You have a blowout scheduled at Franck Provost,” Polly reported and then added, “You know, you kinda need it. You have a little bedhead.”

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