Mobile hairdresser in Marrakech, your hair done in your own bathroom

She can wash at your sink, or take over from hair you have just rinsed yourself, and then it is the familiar routine with none of the effort. The dryer going, a round brush, your hair smoothing out section by section while you sit in your robe with a coffee. You pick the music. Nobody is keeping up small talk you have to follow in a second language.

A blow-dry runs about an hour, give or take your length and how thick it is. Long enough to be done properly, short enough that the night is still yours. And when she leaves, you are already where you are spending the evening, so there is no breeze on the walk home to flatten the shape. You go from the chair to the door.

• Blowouts and smoothing, from 350 MAD
• Evening waves and soft curls
• Updos, braids and half-up looks
• Wedding and event hair, trial on request
• Colour and balayage, arranged in advance

Colour is the one thing that does not happen on a whim. It needs the right mix for your hair, so we set it up ahead of time. Send a photo of what you are picturing, a gloss to wake up the ends, a soft balayage before a holiday, your roots tidied before a shoot, and we confirm the time and the price before anyone is committed to anything.

The good part of doing it at home is the bit nobody enjoys in a salon, which is the waiting. Here the colour develops while you sit on your own sofa with a book, or out in the courtyard with a tea and your feet up, the call to prayer drifting over the rooftops. No row of mirrors. No foils glinting back at you for forty minutes. She rinses at your sink, finishes the blow-dry, and you have barely left your room.

• Gloss and colour refresh
• Balayage and soft highlights
• Root touch-ups between trips
• Toning for brassy or sun-lifted hair
• Always arranged and priced in advance

Weddings out in the palm grove and the riads past the ramparts have their own morning rhythm, and a salon across the city does not fit it. So she comes to where everyone is staying. The bride first, or last, however you want to play it, with the mother and the sisters and the friend who flew in from London all styled in the same room. Robes, a bottle of something cold, somebody's phone playing the wrong song too loud. Nobody is stuck in a taxi when they should be getting dressed.

For the bride there is usually a trial beforehand, so the look is decided and not a gamble on the day. Then she pins it to last through an afternoon that opens at forty degrees and closes on a dance floor at midnight. Updos that hold through the heat, and a veil set so it lifts out cleanly later when the dancing starts. You tell her the hour you all need to be ready and she works the morning backwards from there.

Setting up takes a few minutes and almost nothing from you. A plug she can reach, a chair, a little light, and a mirror, though she carries her own when a room is short on them. If she is washing your hair, a sink or shower she can get to helps. That is more or less the whole list.

Riad bathrooms can be small and lovely and not built for a hairdryer and three people at once, so if the room is tight she will set up in the bedroom or out on the terrace instead. She has worked in every kind of space this city has, from a wide suite in Hivernage to a snug room up three flights of medina stairs. She sorts it out quickly.

• A plug within reach
• A chair and a little light
• A mirror, or she brings one
• A sink nearby if you want a wash
• Room for her kit on a counter or table

Pick the service and a time that fits around your plans instead of the other way round. She comes to your riad, hotel or rented house, sets up, and styles you there. If you are not sure which look suits the evening, say so when you book and she will steer you once she is there and can see your hair in person.

You pay afterwards, when the blow-dry is finished and you have looked at it properly in your own mirror, not under salon lights that flatter everything. If you are visiting and English is the only language you are confident in, that is no trouble at all, since a good share of GLAMCREW's clients are travellers and the stylists are used to it. Book the night before where you can, especially in spring and around the holidays when the city fills up.