Two hours at the hairdresser: little tricks that every curly-haired person should know

It's the little things that make life so inconceivably exhausting. Jochen Schmidt holds on to the wrestling with the profane in his diary of over-challenges. This time: unruly hair.

Hair is capricious, and curly hair is especially so – from the slightest hormonal change to the hardness of the water to the density of the comb, any small impact is enough to cause the hairstyle you put on in the morning to collapse like a house of cards. What can we do about it?