“I’m going to open a very safe place for my staff and my clientele,” Everything’s Relative owner Joan Each Rowan said. “Pandemics are going to come and go, I believe, so I’ve planned for the future.”
When customers walk in and there will be a temperature check, hand sanitizer and a hand-made bio-degradable mask.
The styling stations, shampoo bowls and other stations are now separated by glass framed in aluminum.
You wouldn’t know this was a recent add-on.
“Isn’t is gorgeous?” Rowan said.
Her husband, who is president of Christopher Glass and Aluminum, supplied materials and expertise and they worked with a designer.
“It’s an amazing thing. They came in and measured it and three days later they installed it in eight hours,” she said.
The stations were already six feet apart.
“But I knew that wasn’t going to be enough because people talk and they laugh and they squeal,” she said. “That produces an environment for a virus to float around. By having the partitions, that virus will slam into a glass wall that will be cleaned continuously.”
Everything's Relative has 22 employees and it will have two shifts to help limit the number of people in the salon.
She plans to open on June 1. She will have been closed for 10 weeks.
“It takes time to slay a dragon and I will follow the rules and I will follow the law and I will follow science," Rowan said. "Safety is the new luxury. In the salon industry, we have to take it very seriously because people love going to the salon. They love it but they may be hesitant if they don't feel safe."
Phones have been ringing off the hook, she says, people anxious for cuts, color and manicures.