In our exclusive interview, leading figures from the beauty industry give their opinion on when hairdressers and salons may open This evening Boris Johnson laid out plans for the first stages of lifting lockdown.
This included relaxing the rules of one form of exercise a day, as well as a phased re-opening of retails and some school years from the beginning of June.
Some hospitality services may be allowed to open from early July. But what does this mean for the beauty and hairdressing industry, which employs over 600,000 people in over 50,000 businesses across the UK? “When hairdressers and salons were initially closed in lockdown, the government assumed we were part of the retail sector,” says Millie Kendall, the CEO of the British