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 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.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk.

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.

Our trade can not be done online like so many others. This is the livelihood of our families and ourselves and without being able to perform our licensed trade, we are at risk of losing our businesses, homes, cars, etc... By allowing salons to reopen is a great start in helping the economy come back. Thank you for considering this request and petition.

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.

The survival of the independent beauty professionals is at risk. We are facing a grave financial hardship. With the potential PPP running out of funds and tenants receiving minimal rent deferment with strict guidelines, and little to no rent forgiveness, can take out all financing of independent contractors and small business owners. Many government officials still are receiving salon services Illegally because they are the face of the city. Yet we support many other business professionals who need to maintain their appearance as well as their mental health from their image.

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.

Ever since COVID-19 it has been affecting us in major ways and forcing people to make tough decisions for their families. We are going through financial hardship. we were promised bail outs through small business loans or grants. Yet the government has made the stipulations on these grants nearly impossible for our type of business to qualify for the loan to become a grant. Most grooming shops if not all grooming shops have been/ will be denied . We have no help when we have been promised help. The Quarantine was implemented to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19 to assure that hospitals were not overwhelmed all the once in to help prevent such a rapid spread . The numbers of infected people is on the decline . Grooming shops are very clean we take this serious this is our livelihood if we do not return back to work by May 1st many small businesses will be lost . We will not be able to pay our bills, rents/mortgages, Insurances, we have the very potentially of losing everything. We still have to pay our mortgages/ rents and phone bills and gas and electric none of this has stopped for us . Yes, we can postpone them, but they’re not going away! Some of us can still sustain for a while, but that doesn’t mean that we are doing OK this is how we pay our bills this is how we feed our families and we are not getting any help from anyone, nor are we asking for it. We just want to be allowed to return to work in a safe manor