1362This American's hair is a dyed shade of red, but that striking look has gone to waste in this shot. Still, it was while she was visiting her grandmother’s, accompanied by her mother, that her SOTM was born.

Her mother was complaining about the colour of her hair, her piercings and her tattoos, when her grandmother leaned over and whispered this advice in her ear. “I think it’s pretty good advice most of the time,” she says in her audio clip. Taken in Shoreditch, London.