Fashion director, Ursula Lake explains her spontaneous fringe and one traumatic cut she'd rather forget 

I had a total scare cut when I was 17. Lured into a salon by someone who told me that they were going to be make me into a model (who me?!), he then chopped off my waist length sun-kissed locks and left me with a boy's short hair cut with a sort of semi mullet layering effect. He then dyed it dark, red-brown.  My boyfriend chucked me, my father asked me who I was and my new school friends walked past me in the corridor; It’s a miracle I made it to 18.  

For two years I grew out that hideous cut and colour and by the time I was about 21, I was pretty much back to my 17 year old hair. I haven’t really changed it since - the pain of that experience is still too raw. But, I am not 17 anymore and this combined with the fact that I am off to NYC where everyone is super glossy and never has a hair out of place, led to me rethink my hair. A haircut was in order.  

I am very lucky that I get to work with truly amazing hair stylists and often I get my hair trimmed by them during a spare moment on a fashion shoot. One whom I work with a lot (and has styled the models hair in a number of shoots for Never Underdressed)  is my good friend Christopher Sweeney, who is a genius with a pair of scissors.  When he isn't styling supermodel's hair for the catwalks of Paris, he works in a chic salon called Concrete in Covent Garden which is where he gave me this chop.

The new fringe wasn't premeditated at all.  Chris normally cuts me a long fringe that I generally end up tucking away when I am working so no one really ever notices it, but on this occasion I asked him to make the it a bit more pronounced. I trust Chris implicitly as I know that both on a shoot and in the salon he won’t do anything if he isn’t 100% sure that it will suit the person he is working on. I love my new chunky fringe, it’s helped covering my frown lines and that's something I'm sure the women of New York will appreciate too.