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  2021-08-03

  Quarantine Hair

  Christmas 2019 we gifted my kids (and mom) a Disney cruise for August 2020. Our plan was for my daughter and I to chop our hair right before the cruise. The cruise never happened, and neither did our haircuts. Fast forward to a year later. My hair dresser now works from out of her home, having lost her shop. Knowing that she is vaccinated and only sees one household at a time, I decided to finally get our hair cut. My baby’s first haircut only took (almost) 11 years! It was refreshing to say good bye to our quarantine hair, if only we could say goodbye to COVID, too.
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  2020-07-19

  Many Odd Firsts

  My family is just in its beginning stages and with the onset of the covid-19 pandemic some of our firsts have been made a bit strange to experience. Whether it was my daughter's first haircut, her first ride in a go-cart, or getting our first doggy Lucille, we have had to make accommodations in order to protect ourselves and the people around us. In some of these instances it has been extremely difficult because we have no clue how someone is doing any longer. Gauging how someone is feeling in the midst of their first time trying something isn't very easy any longer, especially if it is extremely loud. Getting a veterinarian appointment isn't the easiest thing to do just as waiting for salons to reopen wasn't either. These experiences where you crave seeing the happiness on your loved one's face or faces has been robbed from some of us due to this pandemic.
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  April 3, 2020

  Newburgh IN The Hair Bar

  These photographs were taken to document some of what people in Evansville and its Tri-State region saw and experienced as the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic came to the area in the spring of 2020. Many of these images represent literal signs of the time, while others figuratively depict signs of the pandemic.
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  April 30, 2020

  Evansville IN Rust & Ruby Salon and Barber Being Real

  These photographs were taken to document some of what people in Evansville and its Tri-State region saw and experienced as the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic came to the area in the spring of 2020. Many of these images represent literal signs of the time, while others figuratively depict signs of the pandemic.
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  2020

  BLM and Wear Masks

  Local business has signs in window, Black Lives Matter, RIP George Floyd, and directions for entering the store during pandemic.
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  2020-06-01

  Social Issues

  Public figure Trevor Noah compares the difference between breaking the law for people who look different by comparing a woman who continued to operate her salon during the shutdown. People praised her for her actions by calling her a "Freedom-loving American". But Trevor Noah is saying that if she had looked different she would have been called a criminal. Currently there is much social focus on the injustices within the legal, criminal and justice systems within America. There is an ongoing debate on what it means to have white-privilege, and what it means to be black in America.
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  2020-05-04

  Cut my hair by myself

  Because the closure of hair style barbershop, I have to cut my hair by myself.
• 2020-06-04

  Stay at home

  I haven't get my hair cut for like six month lol.
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  2020-06-04

  Covid Hair Cut

  Salons and barbershops are still closed in my area. Making this the third month that people have gone without their normal upkeep. Several of my friends have taken to shaving off their hair out of frustration. I myself was ready to chop it all off so I asked my daughter River, if she would be willing to give it a shot. She did a good job.
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  2020-05-28

  Haircut

  The salon peeled and I'm getting a haircut in socially distanced mode, wearing a mask. We're chatting about the pandemic and our pandemic activities. For me it's the archive.
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  2020-04-18

  At home salon

  My family and I are taking this pandemic better every day. I live in a household of 3 women and we have been having hair troubles. The hair salons and nails shops were the last to close and we were regular clients in our local hair salon. Our safety and health come first, so I see the need for them to be closed. Since we no longer have access to them, we have formed our own little salon in our home to accommodate us and other women in our family. We have not only solved our hair problems but gave us bonding time with some of the rest of our family. I have realized that been though this is a rough time today in our world. This pandemic has given us more family time.