Life lessons from hair guru Charlotte Mensah
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Known as the queen of black hairdressing, Charlotte Mensah shares her remarkable life story with Trish and Lorraine. From losing her mother and living in a hostel at 17 to dining with Oprah and being inducted into the hairdressing hall of fame, she shares her life lessons as well as her tips for keeping curly and textured hair healthy in midlife.
Plus: Best beauty buys for spring, the joy of unexpected friendships, and a sticky Nostalgia Noodle
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| 0:00.0 | I have some news on the breakfast front, or they're not sure you're going to like it. |
| 0:04.5 | Breaking news. Breaking news. Breaking breakfast news, yeah tell me. |
| 0:09.6 | I've got a recipe that involves carrots for breakfast. What's your breakfast time? |
| 0:14.0 | Are you a rabbit? Carrot porridge. Carrot cake porridge. Life is too short to eat carrot. |
| 0:23.1 | It's really nice. It's my favourite thing that I've discovered. It came on a recipe with my |
| 0:27.8 | veg box because apparently they're having a lot of carrots and they've sent |
| 0:30.9 | everybody extra carrots very kindly. They have a lot of carrots because they're |
| 0:35.2 | inedible and no one likes them. That's why. If you're eyesight, aren't they? |
| 0:39.4 | In your teeth. Anyway, carrot porridge. You grate carrot into your porridge. |
| 0:44.2 | You boil it all up with some oatmeal, bit of cinnamon, chops and nuts on, bit of nutmeg, |
| 0:49.1 | bit of orange zest. My new absolute favourite thing, bringing me joy in the mornings. |
| 0:55.2 | I think that sounds absolutely inedible and I think I would probably cross the road |
| 1:00.8 | to avoid a bowl of carrot porridge, someone who doesn't even know what to do. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, you can, you can stay whole tonight. Mar might, yes. |
| 1:10.8 | Hello, hello. Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Trish Halpin, |
| 1:15.6 | and I'm Nareen Candy, and we're on a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent |
| 1:20.0 | midlife. We'll be tackling everything from mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive. |
| 1:25.8 | Trish and I are here to help you have a stylish second act and answer all your midlife questions |
| 1:30.7 | on fashion, beauty, careers, relationships, family and as always the challenges and joys of parenting |
| 1:36.8 | teams. Here we are at episode five of series five of Postcards from Midlife. That's all the five |
| 1:44.2 | slain like my birthday this year, coming up, what is it, 50 again? 50 all the fives, 55, yes. |
| 1:50.4 | Oh, 55. Is it 55? Because I forget Trish that you were behind me. |
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