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Freelance Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Are Already Feeling Long-Term the Effects of COVID-19

The novel coronavirus has changed the world in what feels like a million ways already, and we’re uncertain about what things will look like when it’s all over. One of the larger, more universal effects it’s had has been on our work lives. Maybe you no longer go into an office day in and day out and have begun working from home instead. Maybe you’re a front line health care worker, now working longer hours than ever under dangerous conditions. Maybe you’re not able to work from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic has caused you to lose employment altogether. The latter situation is the case for the majority of freelance makeup artists and hairstylists, as the virus has all but completely shut down their industry.

Doing hair and makeup professionally involves face-to-face, one-on-one contact — the very thing that the entire world has been told to avoid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. For these freelance artists, this makes their jobs — and for many, their primary source of income — an impossibility. Now these professionals are left to find creative ways to keep their heads above water, both emotionally and financially.

For freelance makeup artists and hairstylists (especially those not based in a major hub like New York City), travel is often a huge part of their careers. Dimant, for example, had an upcoming weeklong gig in Houston that was canceled because of the outbreak. Kayleigh Irene Feidler, a hair colorist who works in Louisville, Kentucky, and Los Angeles, had been flying cross-country once a month for work until COVID-19 made both travel and work an impossibility.

“I have had to cancel multiple trips back to L.A., and this felt like a really harsh blow to the momentum I had while building my business,” she explains.

There are other things to consider as a result of this pandemic, including the shutdown of schools and the cost of things like studio spaces. Freelance makeup artist Genn Shaughnessy lives in New York City and says her business has come to a “crashing halt.”

“I am now a stay-at-home homeschool mom and cannot work,” says Shaughnessy. “I have a retail space and a makeup studio space I rent and pay expenses with zero income.”

Source: -cont- https://www.allure.com/story/covid-19-freelance-makeup-artists-hairstylists

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How 9 Black Women Are Taking Care Of Their Hair In Quarantine

Going to the salon is an event for many black women. The salon is a place of community, therapy, and ritual for a hair strand that is often overlooked and mistreated. On a recent episode of Blackish, youngest daughter Diane has her first experience in the salon where she also receives her first relaxer and is immediately brought into the day-long epic that is common at a black beauty salon. Black Girl Church, a documentary about black women and their relationships to beauty supply stores and the salon experience, treats the experience as a near-religious ceremony and a sanctuary for one of the most marginalized communities. And in late 2016, #BlackSalonProblems began trending on Twitter as women shared their horror stories, which mostly followed the same plot. (Who knew everyone would want a straight look like Beyoncé’s but always ended up looking more like James Brown?)

But when COVID-19 shut down all non-essential businesses—salons and black beauty stores among them—many black women were forced to take matters into their own hands. “Eighteen hours to braid my hair?” Makeup artist and producer Diamond Hawkins said in an email to ELLE.com. “Not a big fan of that!”

To echoe Hawkin’s sentiment: I am also not a big fan of that. I’ve never had to do my own hair before, but the pandemic has forced me to tirelessly learn how to install twists without the help of a stylist, who has the touch that I just don’t possess. For some of the women we spoke to, dealing with their hair amid the crisis has proven to be yet stressor, while others have found joy in spending timewith hair masks and curl treatments rather than heat and chemicals.

Below, nine black women share how they are dealing with their hair during a global pandemic—plus offer resources and advice, if you’re struggling at home, too.

Source: -cont to read- https://www.elle.com/beauty/a32213253/black-women-hair-coronavrius-covid-19/

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