Kentish Express Ashford & District
Lockdown haircuts created for the shear fun of it all!
There’s no doubt the coronavirus outbreak has caused a major change of lifestyle to everyone in Kent. We’ve all had to adapt whether it be working from home, queueing two metres apart outside supermarkets or getting by on limited supplies of loo roll.
But how are men and boys across the county coping now they cannot visit the barber’s for their regular trim?
Many are following the example of actor Stephen Graham and shaving their heads.
Perhaps deep down they have always wanted to know how they would look with a buzzcut.
Some of us have already been there.
In my first year at university, I paid £17 for a haircut that was so bad that I asked a friend to shave it all off.
It’s safe to say I won’t be doing that again, no matter how long this lockdown lasts.
But it appears some blokes simply cannot bear the thought of maintaining a mushrooming mop.
Take Marc Russell from Margate.
He needed a haircut before the lockdown was imposed but found that his barber’s was already shut.
“It had grown and I couldn’t cope any more,” he says.
“So while my girlfriend was at work I shaved it all off. “She don’t like it.”
People have all sorts of reasons for getting out the clippers.
Beck Swan said her “nutter of a partner” Leon Dewar, 34, from Leybourne, had decided to go for the “flower pot haircut”.
She said: “His cousin is going bald on the back of his head, so he decided to shave around a flower pot and FaceTime his cousin to show him
Regular trips to the barber’s shop may have dried up, but it hasn’t stopped dozens of men and boys across the county from a haircut. Phil Hayes selects of some of the best - and worst - DIY lockdown looks.
that he could only grow hair in the place he can’t.
“He was also going to send him the hair in the post so his cousin could stick it on his head.
“His cousin wasn’t very impressed.”
Unfortunately, the DIY haircuts don’t always go to plan.
Loren from Herne Bay said her son Fin, 11, wanted to shave his hair off like his dad had done the same evening.
“We started shaving but the clippers broke,” said Loren.