Blowdrier

Sometimes, she thought, Craig Gleniston did display those endearingly out-of-touch characteristics one expected of an academic—he’d evidently never heard of the short haircuts and blowdriers that made it unnecessary to give over an entire evening to hairwashing.

Even his hair was styled to ruffle becomingly in a breeze. At every hairdresser’s appointment he tested it by bullying four of his stylist’s assistants into simulating wind with blowdriers turned up full blast.

Some pieces of hairdressing equipment are more vulnerable – blowdriers for example can break if dropped.