Official Covid-19 Haircut Megathread

Jayzee. · 26-03-2020 5:20pm #1

What's everybody's plans for haircuts during the alert?

I've just ordered a battery trimmer, never used one before

No idea what to doe when it's arrives

lawrencesummers · 26-03-2020 5:22pm

Jayzee. wrote: »

What's everybody's plans for haircuts during the alert?

I've just ordered a battery trimmer, never used one before

No idea what to doe when it's arrives

Plug it in and charge it.
Then cut your hair off.

jill_valentine · 26-03-2020 5:44pm

I was offered a free haircut a few weeks ago and said no ;_;

Am now considering paying my flatmate to give it a go. Starting to understand why post apocalyptic scifi hair is the way it is.

Muahahaha · 26-03-2020 6:09pm

Im offering a special Covid 19 barber service. 2 metres social distancing guaranteed.

riffmongous · 26-03-2020 6:11pm

If you don't mind your hair short it's not that hard.. just plan out how to 'fade' it, take your time and get someone else to do the back if you can.. that's the place you can really **** it up, trying to get a straight line at the very end of your hair

CB19Kevo · 26-03-2020 6:42pm

I plan on having longer hair during covid...
Not exactly many social gatherings to be worrying about having the latest style..

riffmongous · 26-03-2020 6:48pm

CB19Kevo wrote: »

I plan on having longer hair during covid...
Not exactly many social gatherings to be worrying about having the latest style..

Perfect time for trying out a beard or tash

strawdog · 26-03-2020 6:49pm

CB19Kevo wrote: »

I plan on having longer hair during covid...
Not exactly many social gatherings to be worrying about having the latest style..

Yep I was wanting to grow my hair out one last time while it's still all there but keeping it short just made it so much easier to look respectable for work. This is the best window we'll ever get!

mirrorwall14 · 26-03-2020 6:52pm

I bought a hair scissors set..... we shall see!

Jim_Hodge · 26-03-2020 6:57pm

riffmongous wrote: »

Perfect time for trying out a beard or tash

Not if you'll need to wear a face mask.

I'm tempted to let the Mrs have a go at my hair but it's not a promising prospect.

Beasty · 26-03-2020 7:01pm

Christ! May have to go all Telly Savalas:eek:

uck51js9zml2yt · 26-03-2020 7:12pm

riffmongous wrote: »

Perfect time for trying out a beard or tash

Tried that and didn't shave for 10 days. It was pure grey. I shaved this evening

extra gravy · 26-03-2020 7:15pm

I think this thread should include pics of DIY cuts gone wrong

Beasty · 26-03-2020 7:18pm

Some tips

Looking forward to seeing how everyone gets on...

Xertz · 26-03-2020 7:19pm

Ordered a trimmer - should be 'interesting' lol

I think I'm just going to go for a fairly simple shaved head for the next while lol

Beasty · 26-03-2020 7:20pm

I'm at a stage that even if I don't cut it I'll probably have less by the end of this than I have now:(

ShatterAlan · 26-03-2020 7:21pm

Fcuk it...go full Kojak.

We've all wanted to do it but never did because we'd have to go to work and face the slags. You may not have another opportunity to look like a Shaolin monk. Get the buzzer and shear it off to a mark 1 then have the missus lather up your head and take the old Gillette Mach 3 to it. So you're as bald as an egg just in time for Easter. By the time you have to go back to work it'll have grown back to a nice crew cut.

extra gravy · 26-03-2020 7:22pm

Xertz wrote: »

Ordered a trimmer - should be 'interesting' lol

I think I'm just going to go for a fairly simple shaved head for the next while lol

What one did you order? There's so many to choose from. I'm okay for couple of weeks but would like to be prepared!

extra gravy · 26-03-2020 7:23pm

Beasty wrote: »

Some tips

Looking forward to seeing how everyone gets on...

Bookmarked

Xertz · 26-03-2020 7:39pm

extra gravy wrote: »

What one did you order? There's so many to choose from. I'm okay for couple of weeks but would like to be prepared!

A Whal cordless one. Was surprisingly not that expensive.

MarkR · 06-05-2020 2:46pm

My wife's aged aunt mentioned that she's getting her hair done tomorrow in a place in Limerick. And weren't they great to be opening to help the elderly.

They are still closed, right?

ianob7 · 06-05-2020 2:50pm

Ya pretty sure it's July 20 something for Barbers/Hairdressers.

The mind boggles

suicide_circus · 06-05-2020 2:51pm

they are still meant to be closed yes but there is plenty of black market stuff going on as always happens at times of national strife and prohibition.

bigpink · 06-05-2020 2:51pm

Lots of places open for regulars or house calls

stargazer 68 · 06-05-2020 2:51pm

Girl on our road has started doing the nails again! She was certainly busy over the last few days!

MarkR · 06-05-2020 2:56pm

Jesus tap dancing Christ. The world won't end with a roar or an explosion. It'll end with blue tinted hair and gel nails.

GazzaL · 06-05-2020 2:59pm

MarkR wrote: »

My wife's aged aunt mentioned that she's getting her hair done tomorrow in a place in Limerick. And weren't they great to be opening to help the elderly.

They are still closed, right?

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D3V!L · 06-05-2020 3:02pm

In general people dont seem to give a f*ck about restrictions. Without even leaving my house I seen 4 different neighbours have visitors come and go recently. One neighbour lifted a fence panel and had her next door neighbour into the garden for drinks and a natter. Thought no one would notice.

kowloonkev · 06-05-2020 3:03pm

Hope these hairdressers are prepared to face the legal consequences should cases of this be traced back to their premises.

Gynoid · 06-05-2020 3:06pm

This sounds like a very naughty thread.

ixoy · 06-05-2020 3:09pm

What level of precaution are they taking? Face masks for all for example? I mean that's likely what they'll be doing when their restrictions are lifted.

Strazdas · 06-05-2020 3:11pm

There was a report on the BBC lunchtime news about this, same problem over there.

I think the authorities in both jurisdictions have messed up on this one, not realising hairdressing and haircuts are pretty much an essential service in modern society, not just some trivial thing of no consequence. Expecting people to cut their own hair for months on end is not very realistic.

06-05-2020 3:12pm

ixoy wrote: »

What level of precaution are they taking? Face masks for all for example? I mean that's likely what they'll be doing when their restrictions are lifted.

that's what they are doing in Germany, Spain right now

Higgins5473 · 06-05-2020 3:13pm

“Backdoor Hair Dressers”

Thought this was going to be about your arsehole waxed or ass cheek hair styled in some way.

Penfailed · 06-05-2020 3:15pm

Strazdas wrote: »

I think the authorities in both jurisdictions have messed up on this one, not realising hairdressing and haircuts are pretty much an essential service in modern society

Hahaha!

Really?

road_high · 06-05-2020 3:15pm

D3V!L wrote: »

In general people dont seem to give a f*ck about restrictions. Without even leaving my house I seen 4 different neighbours have visitors come and go recently. One neighbour lifted a fence panel and had her next door neighbour into the garden for drinks and a natter. Thought no one would notice.

Once the restrictions become pointless and almost endlessly drawn out, then yes people will work around them. That’s what human beings do- they live rather than sitting at home waiting to die

gmisk · 06-05-2020 3:16pm

MarkR wrote: »

My wife's aged aunt mentioned that she's getting her hair done tomorrow in a place in Limerick. And weren't they great to be opening to help the elderly.

They are still closed, right?

Great to be opened?

Where is their clap at 8 o clock eh?

Greedy feckers more like it....but if oul biddies want to put themselves at risk work away imo

Penfailed · 06-05-2020 3:17pm

D3V!L wrote: »

One neighbour lifted a fence panel and had her next door neighbour into the garden for drinks and a natter. Thought no one would notice.

In the garden? Socially distancing? I don't see the problem.

smelly sock · 06-05-2020 3:19pm

Who cares anymore.

06-05-2020 3:28pm

Penfailed wrote: »

In the garden? Socially distancing? I don't see the problem.

Strazdas · 06-05-2020 3:33pm

Penfailed wrote: »

Hahaha!

Really?

Yes really.....a black market in hairdressing throughout the UK and Ireland would suggest it's not something that can just be parked and forgotten about for a few months as something frivolous and of entirely no consequence.

ebbsy · 06-05-2020 3:35pm

The ould back door. Nothing like it.

rob316 · 06-05-2020 3:35pm

the opening timeline for them is a joke. Go look at the other european countries its the first thing that opens there.

Kermit.de.frog · 06-05-2020 3:39pm

I think mandatory prison and/or large fines should be normal for anyone breaking the restrictions.

We have been too lax from the start.

We need to police restrictions better in a second wave. We will have learned from this time round hopefully.

Strazdas · 06-05-2020 3:43pm

rob316 wrote: »

the opening timeline for them is a joke. Go look at the other european countries its the first thing that opens there.

I don't buy either that they are especially dangerous places. If the hairdresser or barber wears a mask and gloves and observes good hygiene, you would have thought the risk of he / she giving the virus to their client would be extremely low (and the idea would be that there would be very few clients in the salon at the same time).

cherryghost · 06-05-2020 3:44pm

rob316 wrote: »

the opening timeline for them is a joke. Go look at the other european countries its the first thing that opens there.

Most services we are opening later are backwards and contrary to the majority of EU.

petes · 06-05-2020 3:47pm

rob316 wrote: »

the opening timeline for them is a joke. Go look at the other european countries its the first thing that opens there.

And if they did and everything went to **** you'd have people complaining that they shouldn't have followed other EU countries.

Do they other EU countries know something we don't? Or do you know something we don't?

smelly sock · 06-05-2020 3:51pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I think mandatory prison and/or large fines should be normal for anyone breaking the restrictions.

We have been too lax from the start.

We need to police restrictions better in a second wave. We will have learned from this time round hopefully.

Couldn't disagree more with that. We shat ourselves very early in this thing. WTF building sites, road works,landscapers etc had to down tools is a mystery. Mad carry on. Now we are going to feel that impact on the economy amd in our loves a lot more than the actual illness caused by covid 19.

Lockdowns really only work on a limited and phased basis. Our lads are pulling the piss now

nthclare · 06-05-2020 3:56pm

Give me a 50's looking gal any day, thick hair, dark waves and class over the modern generic hybrid's...

I'm growing mine out, I look around 17 again, that wavy thick 90's hairdo..
My Gf love's it...

manlad · 06-05-2020 3:56pm

The Government need to look at this again, currently there are hairdressers claiming the pandemic payment and also carrying out nixers on the side which they aren't paying any tax on it. It doesn't make sense.

KrustyUCC · 06-05-2020 3:59pm

Hairdressers plead with government to let them reopen before July

"Salons will not reopen until Phase 4 of the government's roadmap plan, meaning they will remain closed until July 20, because they are not deemed essential services.

But the group wants salons to be moved into Phase 3 of the plan, on June 29, due to fears of a black market economy."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/hairdressers-plead-with-government-to-let-them-reopen-before-july-997886.html

I still can't figure out why our hairdressers are in phase 4 July 20th yet hairdressers in Denmark could be opened 3 months at that stage

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-52360452

What is so radically different over here?

Official Covid-19 Haircut Megathread

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