We must all be far too busy reading to bother going to the hairdressers.
Actually no, I don't go to the hairdressers because a) I am tight-fisted and I can cut it myself for free, b) I don't like people poking aorund my head and c) being asked on every visit if I'm "going anywhere nice" for my holidays makes me fell like being overly sarcastic in reply ("oh, just having a fortnight in Mordor, you know").
I wear contacts too. I save my specs for at home because they are so thick I can guarantee I would get 'humorous' comments from people about them.
What has surprised me is that the male Downers by and large look very 'clean-cut'. There aren't many guys who look hippyish, which I would have expected. Could this be my age that I have presumed Tolkien fans to look like that? I did see a lot of people like that at Birmingham 2005, but then I was also surprised to see many, many perfectly ordinary looking older people too.