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When Will Beauty Salons Re-open? Here's What the Government's 'Roadmap' Says

Photo credit: Anna Efetova - Getty Images
Photo credit: Anna Efetova - Getty Images

If you're a little over trying to tint your own brows or fruitlessly attempting to give yourself a glow-giving facial, then you're likely keen to know the latest with beauty salons and hairdressers.

Aside from your deep desire to get back in there, there's also a serious economic problem at play. The pandemic has been incredibly hard on this sector. Last week, it was revealed that over 4,500 hairdressers and salons have now shut up shop – victims of being unable to operate, on and off, for months at a time.

In today's Commons briefing on England's 'roadmap' out of lockdown 3.0, the date on which these businesses could re-open was revealed.

When could beauty salons and hairdressers re-open?

Step two of the road out of lockdown will start no earlier than the 12 April. Here, 'non-essential retail,' including hairdressers and nail and beauty salons, will be able to open. What is important to remember is that this is not absolute: it is subject to delay, depending on what the data is showing around virus rates, it may be pushed back.

Pubs and restaurants will also be allowd to open, for outdoor service, with no curfew and no need to order a 'substantial meal.'

How would beauty salons be Covid-secure?

So, how might beauty salons and hairdressers open up? Previously in the pandemic hairdressers and therapists wore masks, as did customers, of course. In July, a particularly weird caveat was that beauty salons could only perform treatments 'below the neck' – so, no facials or eyebrow threading.

In May 2020, The British Beauty Council produced some suggested guidelines, on how salons could stay safe. They cover:

  1. Hair professionals

  2. Nail professionals

  3. Freelance hair, make-up and nails in fashion

  4. Retail

  5. Therapy

  6. Mental health & wellbeing

The document says that the following 'core concepts' could be followed:

  1. Maintain hand washing and respiratory hygiene at all times

  2. Maintain a two metre distance from other people where possible

  3. Be hyper alert to, and isolate if you have symptoms, including flu like symptoms

  4. Reduce close contact and duration of contact with people outside of direct household

  5. (micro-community)

  6. Access advice and support for mental wellbeing and resilience

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