Allow a licensed beauty professional to perform a beauty service privately with one client in the salon per stylist at a time Starting as of Friday, May 1, 2020. All necessary precautions for proper sanitation & disinfection protocols approved by the Ohio state of Board of Cosmetology, the local Board of Health, & the CDC guidelines will be followed to the best of our abilities. Our industry needs to be recognized & deemed as an essential business so we can better serve our community. Servicing one client at a time (while wearing a mask & gloves) poses little to no risk of spreading the virus, as compared to 20 or more people in a grocery store or 10 plus people at restaurants picking up food.

Chiropractors, deemed essential, work one on one with patients as we work one on one with clients.

Why is this important?

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship. Some of our business that we spent our life building may never recover from this.

Many stylist are 1099 independent contractors & are receiving zero financial help during this pandemic. Many stylist in our industry are single moms with children.

Our industry & livelihoods are at risk as well as clients health & safety. Some clients are buying & using chemicals that are labeled “for professional use only” and are getting horrible chemical burns on the skin & extreme hair breakage. That is one of the tragedies. Then there is desperate clients that has been having an underground hairstylist go over to their home and do color & cut or the clients are saving money by buying a box of color at a grocery store with dire health & safety consequences or they are having their friends beauty school family member go over to do their hair. This is far more risky as it presents a false sense of security as the client of the kitchen stylist or the stylist themselves are not wearing protective gear & do not have proper sanitation protocols in place to travel. If the stylist goes to 3 homes & catches the virus at the first home, just look at the consequences of how many people this can be spread to!

In the salon clients & stylist can both wear masks & salons can have a limited menu (not to do waxing or any services that would require removing of their mask.) Clients can wait in cars or outside on a nice day so the salon has limited clients in the salon at a time. Temperatures can be taken at the door before a client enters the salon.

Why hair is essential;

Mental health - how we look influences how we feel. Why is mental health not essential? Clients come in to feel good & we are a friendly loving ear for them to vent on when some people may have no one else to talk to or may need to escape an unhealthy home environment if even for a couple of hours

I have essential workers - nurses, doctors & police department.

Basic hygiene - some clients can’t wash their own hair (medical reasons or cannot hold their arms up that long) this in itself is a health & safety issue.

A few people in a salon is much easier to control when not every client your salon has ever laid hands on is not overdue at the same time ..... many clients are already 6 weeks overdue

***If a client or salon worker is not comfortable with being/working in the salon or fevered/not feeling well they are NOT to be in the salon at all ***