A lot of barbershops are small business owners they are taking a really big hit during the pandemic and could possibly lose their business

Pets are considered family members to their owners and getting regular grooming is essential to their health and wellness. Grooming salons have sanitary protocols in place to keep every owner and pet safe.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are properly trained and practice safety and sanitation at the same level of hospitals and health care. We are facing a grave financial hardship, as a whole.

Most salons are owner operated and do not qualify for unemployment or any type of income assistance. Hair and Nail salons already practice extreme sanitation and cleanliness practices.

For the livelihood of the licensed hairstylist.

The survival of the independent beauty professional is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship. The main part of our industry are self employed independent contractors. The funding has run out with thousands of people left no way of assistance! Unemployment is overwhelmed and not coming thru as promised. We are left with no way to provide for our families and risk loosing everything.

Independent Beauty Professionals rely on the income from clients. They cannot perform a haircut online. While the “beauty industry is deemed “Non essential”, the ability to practice their craft is very ESSENTIAL to their livelihood. They are facing a grave financial hardship.

Cosmetologists are essential to their community. Everyday we have clients reaching out to us about their haircare needs. Many are resorting to finding ways at home to provide a service that they depend on by us that cannot be duplicated from our years of experience and education. We know that when they try to play Cosmetologist at home, they are erasing hundreds of dollars of money and many hours of time they, and us, have spent creating what they pay us to do. That will account to hundreds more spent, early on, to get their hair back to good shape, health and condition. Being able to take care of our clients will be a frenzy that will be difficult to provide the longer we can not operate. Cosmetologists have a unique ability to bring, not only life and health to hair, but life to our clients through their unique, individual representation, confidence and a healthy mental state. Our clients need us and we need them.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship.

Avoid further hardship on an entire industry. Control and ease back into the work force. This will eliminate the house calls, etc. And bring us back into a controlled, professional environment.

This is detrimental to our survival, both emotionally, financially and economically. Our small businesses will not survive without a re-open now. Nor will our ability to provide for our families. We are already facing huge financial hardship.