Guidelines in place to keep salon-goers in North Manchester safe

Modern Impressions Hair and Nail Salon in North Manchester has sat empty for nearly two months.

On Monday, Owner Dawn Patrick was able to open her doors.

Also opening up for the first time today ... salons and barbershops.

Fox 55's caleb saylor visited a local salon to see what measures they've taken to limit the spread of covid 19.

Modern impressions hair and nail salon in north manchester has sat empty for nearly two months.

Today ?nats of buzzers?

Owner dawn patrick was able to open her doors.

E had zero income f whol five of us e who work here, so it was rough, a get any n unemployment until this past friday, on may 8th.

So, we has no money until may 8th.

?nats of something?

Each of the stylists are booked solid until june first.

But you won see the shop packed full, as they put in a number of precautions to keep customer let don any extra people in here.

We have the seating area blocked off.

The only person that can be in is the client.

They have to stay out until we allow them to come in.

We have spacers between these stations.

Spaces between those two...sanitizing everything down between clients.

All of our instruments, our chairs.

Everyone has to wear a mask...we all took the course for the barbicide certification...we were trained all this in school, but we just thought it would make our clients feel safer if they knew we did a brush-up course on the sanitation.

Year old jim norman says he satisfied with the changes.

Ord yes.

I ninty years old, so really care about all that stuff.

Time customer beth sweitzer-riley believes the precautions are working always felt it was a very clean salon, but i instantly noticed the partitions between customers.

Definitely the mask requirement.

The guidelines were on the door, kind of to forewarn what to expect.

So, i think it gives people an extra sense of safety.

This shop will still lose money since they space out their appointments, but that isn keeping them down e just glad to be back to work and be able to service our clients.

Riley had this challenge to salon-goers to make up for the lost wages f you can in your own pocketbook, pay double.

Caleb saylor fox 55 news if you plan on going to the salon or barbershop soon, you e highly encouraged to call ahead to book an