Brave customers flock to get their hair done by Dianah Kendall – even though she is a blind hairdresser.
Dianah, 56, lost her eyesight after suffering a brain injury – and was classed as too blind to drive.
But loyal customers pledged to stand by Dianah because she has cut their hair so well over the years.
She keeps wielding the scissors despite her vision being massively impaired by 50% – and keeps the customers happy.
Shopkeeper Sara Allan, 34, said: “My husband teases me about going to a blind hairdresser but she’s the best.
“I wouldn’t go anywhere else – she never fails.
“I’ve never left with a cut I didn’t like. She knows what I like so well that she could do it with her eyes closed anyway.”
Mum-of-two Dianah suffered bleeding on the brain – and she was warned she might never work again.
The cause of the bleed remains unknown but came on suddenly one day when she was working in her salon.
She was left with impaired peripheral vision which means she can only see a small box shape when she peers at her customers’ locks at Just Cuts in Pencoed, near Bridgend, South Wales.
But her customers kept on coming back after she was away for three months.
She said: “They tease me about my eyesight – saying who’d have a cut from a blind hairdresser.
“But I don’t mind.
“Losing some of my sight and surviving is better than the other option.
“Now that my condition has settled down it only affects my peripheral vision.
“So I trip up and can’t judge distances very well at all but if a head of hair is in front of me I can see well enough to give my usual great standard of cut.”
