Only good hair days from now on
BEAUTY therapists wasted little time ushering in the easing of lockdown as long-awaited hair and beauty treatments began at the stroke of midnight.
Yesterday marked the first time salons were able to treat customers since January 6.
Secret Spa offers at-home treatments in London, Manchester and Brighton.As the clock struck 12, co-owner Emily Ewart-Perks, hair stylist Nas Ganev and tan artist Magdelaine Gibson visited a home in south London to offer their services to clients Amy Pallister and Isabella Robinson.
“Everyone has really missed the social contact of the day-today job and making clients happy,” Ms Ewart-Perks said.
She revealed the reopening announcement was initially met with a measure of apprehension.
“When Boris made the announcement that close contact beauty therapy could go ahead, I think a lot of people had been waiting for the news, just to be 100 per cent sure, because the last reopening from lockdown we were given dates and then the dates were delayed,” she said.
“So I think people were very nervous [this time around], and when it was confirmed we just saw a surge of bookings.”
It was that wave of demand that prompted Ms Ewart-Perks to offer midnight appointments.
She said: “We realised we had quite a few regular clients who we weren’t able to book in on the first day back, so we thought ‘why don’t we open the first moment we can?’”
Ms Pallister, who received the first cut of the day, said: “(It’s been) about seven or eight months since my last one so I had some very split ends.”
Her personal celebration of lockdown easing has only begun.
She added: “I’m also hoping my new haircut will get me a date. I’ve been single for a long time now, so I reckon it’ll help.”