She wanted a nice haircut. But after the hairdresser visit, the model Aashna Roy felt downright disfigured. The case ended up in court. And the model was right. Now the hairdresser has to pay. And plenty of it. Specifically: the equivalent of 250,000 francs.
The fateful visit happened in 2018 in New Delhi, India. The scene of the crime: a hairdressing salon in a luxury hotel. Roy had asked the hairdresser to shorten her tips by about ten centimeters, as the city’s consumer court reported.
“Instead, to her horror, the hairdresser cut her hair ten centimeters short,” says the verdict. A disaster for them.
“Women are emotionally attached to their hair”
Since Roy worked as a model for hair care products, the messed up haircut caused her “a severe mental breakdown and trauma”. The young woman has lost lucrative jobs as a result, her dream of a top model career has been destroyed, her life has completely changed.
There could be “no doubt that women are very careful when it comes to their hair,” said the court to explain its judgment. “They spend a lot of money on taking care of their hair and they are emotionally attached to their hair.” The hairdresser now has two weeks to transfer the 250,000 francs to the model. (jmh / AFP)