Casablanca Hair Salons Reopen: Stylists Share Challenges After 3-Month Lockdown

After more than three months of closure, hairdressers in Casablanca have resumed their work with scissors. While several of them had invested a fortune in renovating their shops before the state of emergency was imposed, others had just started their activities.

Forced to close and now without income, some hairdressers had to honor their commitments to their employees. In a statement to Le360, Mustapha, a barber and owner of a Barbershop in Casablanca, is one of the professionals who had just opened their establishments. As for him, his hair salon was inaugurated one month before the Covid-19 crisis. According to him, he continued to pay his employees after the closure. But he gave up working clandestinely for fear of contracting Covid-19 from the clientele.

This fear also allowed him to comply in his salon with the measures enacted by the health authorities to prevent Covid-19, namely taking body temperature, wearing sanitary masks, using disposable blades and gowns, sterilizing equipment and seats...

Mustapha, while remaining confident, assures that his business sector could relaunch by August. As a result, his business could pick up again.