With salons shut, opportunities for socialising dashed and everyone staying home, women across the country are forgoing their usual grooming routines and getting used to seeing mor

Women letting facial and body hair grown in lockdown

Before, if someone was quite close to my face I’d suddenly become paranoid about whether they had noticed my upper-lip hair

Lockdown has allowed me to let go and sort of just care a whole lot less about other people’s perceptions

I internalised so much shame and negative thoughts about it over the years, that it took staying at home and confronting my face every day for me to slowly see my facial hair in a more positive way

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With salons shut and opportunities for socialising dashed, women across the country are forgoing their usual grooming routines – and that might be a good thing.

How women’s relationship with their facial and body hair is changing in lockdown