Shafi Musaddique
- In March I've had most of the coronavirus symptoms and would hate for anyone else to go through the same.
- On the July 4, hairdressers as well as pubs and other facilities reopened in England and I decided it was time for a haircut.
- HOB Salons, my go-to hairdresser for five years, eased my worries and I had my first haircut after four months. It was emotional, exciting, and strangely normal.
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Booking a routine hairdressers appointment usually makes me feel, at most, a mild sense of relief. Not this time. There was nothing routine about the reopening of England's hairdressers on July 4 — as soon as I could, I rang HOB Salons, my go-to spot in Camden, and secured a Wednesday morning slot, when the shop was quietest. I was so desperate to get four months of tangled lockdown hair lopped off that I punched the air in jubilation after I booked, as my football team, Arsenal, had just won a game.
With excitement came nerves, and plenty of questions. Would I get the same pampered experience as before? Would it feel too regimented, and less personal? I had questions about how coronavirus precautions would work, too. Britain's government sent mixed signals over the easing of lockdown restrictions: Stay 1 meter away from anyone outside your household, but it's fine for hairdressers to rub your head with shampoo and snip away. I feel like I'm walking on eggshells one moment, and embracing the long-forgotten feeling of physical touch the next.
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