Hairdressers could reopen within two weeks

The wait to get your roots done could soon be over, according to reports.

Boris Johnson is said to be considering plans to reopen hair salons and barber shops later this month, ahead of the previously suggested 'earliest' July 4 date, according to The Telegraph.

Salons have been closed since the lockdown was imposed on March 23, though in recent weeks many have begun waitlists for clients to sign up for slots in anticipation of the reopening.

The government is reportedly considering proposals for hairdressers to reopen as early as June 15, when non-essential shops are also due to resume business, in a move to help restart the UK economy faster.

The Department for Business (BEIS) is meanwhile understood to have started drawing up social distancing measures for salons, the publication reports, which resembles those issued to dentists (expected to reopen on June 8).

The social distancing measures would see stylists wearing dentist-style PPE kit such as face masks perspex visors and gloves.

A source told the paper: "Hairdressers were supposed to be the next thing. Boris has talked about unleashing the great British haircut again. It would be treated under similar rules to dentists."

Hairdressers have been campaigning for an earlier opening for some time, a petition launched by Shai Greenberg, owner of London hair salon Gielly Green, has received over 10,000 signatures, which allowed him to take it to the UK government in a formal letter yesterday in which he asks that salons re-open with non-essential retail on 15 June.

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