I'd like Nicky to do it but he can never do it if you ring up the day before like I do I've just

I'd like Nicky to do it, but he can never do it if you ring up the day before like I do I've just got to be more organised He's like Edward Scissorhands - hair flying everywhere. I've got straight, normal, flat hair that doesn't have any style. He was explaining to me that if you put layers in the back then it will lift the top and it gives you a different outline. I've tried everywhere - Daniel Galvin, Neville Daniel, Michaeljohn - and at last I found Carl, here at Nicky Clarke, who always does my colour Now I'm looking for someone to cut my hair regularly. For the past three years, she has been a sports reporter on Sky TV; she is a keen sportswoman who enjoys showjumping, mountain biking and hockey. Her burning ambition is to be the skiing correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.BEFOREI'm really fussy about who does my hair. When we go on holiday I have people to stay in the house to look after her Everybody has privileges, don't they?AFTERI love it.

It's been done very glamorously - he knows I like it off my face I'm going to a ball on Saturday. I'll be wearing a black halter- neck dress by Donna Karan and very high strappy sandals and a wide black patent belt.CLAUDIA SIMONClaudia has been a presenter on Top of the Pops and London Tonight. I go to keep fit classes about three times a week and I play bridge once a week. I also have a Rottweiler - I love my baby and she's never been in a kennel.

But if your hair is good, you can put on an old dress and still look good Hair is the most important accessory. I go for the glamorous look - and Nicky makes it look modern. If you ask someone else to do that, it ends up looking like an old-fashioned shampoo and set. If your hair is no good, it doesn't matter what you put on, you don't feel right. Every four or five weeks I have it cut a little and that costs me pounds 120. She went to finishing school in Switzerland, and in 1968 met her English husband when he was on business in Denmark. They moved to England to bring up their son and daughter, now aged 26 and 23 respectively.

She has lived in Chisle-hurst, south-east London, for 23 years.BEFOREI could never settle with anyone until I met Nicky. I found it very difficult to find somebody who's good at cutting and styling. I've been coming to him for years and I have a weekly appointment with him, which costs me pounds 65. Not bad for a lad who left school with two O-levels.His partnership with Lesley reminds him of that of Yves St Laurent's with Pierre Berge: "He would be nowhere without St Laurent, and St Laurent would be nowhere without him," he says This man thinks big !LIZ WHEELERLiz was born in Denmark. For a year, Nicky worked with his brother; then, in 1991, he and his wife and business partner Lesley borrowed pounds 100,000 to open the Mount Street salon. He's now British hairdresser of the year, and insured for a million pounds. Four years later, Clifford and Frieda split up, and Nicky joined Frieda Ten years later, they too parted, acrimoniously.