Guest Author - Sandy Mullins

Competition has moved across the street for the owners of ‘Henshall Ferraday’, a family hair salon. The owners of Henshall Ferraday can’t believe the new salon opened right across the street, and worse yet one of the owners of the new salon ‘Blade Runner’ is a former boyfriend of Allie Henshall.

For some background on the main players and actors in this British drama, let’s look at the salons:

Henshall Ferraday Salon:
Allie Henshall , played by: Sarah Parish (The Wedding Date) co-owner and wife to Galvin Ferraday.
Galvin Ferraday , played by: Jason Merrells (The Jealous God) co-owner and husband to Allie Henshall.
Darcey Henshall, played by: Angela Griffin(Down to Earth) a single sister to Allie and beautician dating several married men.
Sydney Henshall, played by: Sian Reeves(No Deposit No Return) a single mother and sister to Allie and nail artist.
Ruby Ferris, played by: Lucky Gaskell (Dungeon and Dragons II: Elemental Might) the younger of the girls in the salon, not family but good as.
Shane Ince , played by: James Midgley (DNA) one of Henshall Ferraday’s premier stylist and one of Manchester’s premier queens, noted for stealing Sydney’s boyfriends from under her nose and usually thinking for himself first.
Eugene Eubank, played by: Pearce Quigley (Big Dippers) one of Allies oldest and loyal friends and much to his dismay she fails to see how much he loves her. Eugene lives in a flat above Henshall Ferraday.
Brawdie Henshall, played by: Annette Badland (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) taunted as the mother no one wants, she loves Darcey more and shows it, Allie and Sydney and her husband Tom can do nothing right. Only one she loves about as much as Darcey is he old smelly do Panzer.
Tom Henshall, played by: Bill Thomas(Trial & Retribution VIII) loving father and good man, devoted to his daughters.

Blade Runner Salon:
Mia Beaven, played by: Amanda Holden (Mad About Alice) co-owner and out to be the best hair dresser in town.
Fin Beaven, played by Ben Daniels (Doom) co-owner and lovable womanizer, wants to win back Allie Henshall.

Can the Allie Henshall come to grip with the heat of the old flame and the new salon? Will Allie succumb to Fin Bevan desire to rekindle their old romance?

Cutting It is new to the United States and Womens Entertainment (We). Cutting It has a lot of drama and is loaded with relationship issues. It might be worth taking a look at, it started back in 2002 and is still going strong in England. You can catch it Wednesday nights on We at 9 ET/6 PT.
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