Andrea's Cellular Hair Salon Makes House Calls In Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted by Bender Finn on June 10th, 2021

The final time Janie Hesser tried to cut her personal hair, she ended up staring right into a mirror at a hairstyle far faraway from the one she had envisioned. She tried to change the hairdo by taking some off the highest, clipping a bit extra from the sides and saved trimming till her once neck-size hair stood about 2 inches tall. www.google.com/maps/place/Heartbreaker+Salon/@49.2573026,-123.0911774,19z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x54867157dd32d7b9:0x7cb863f2e4c3dd96!2s629+Kingsway,+Vancouver,+BC+V5T+3K5,+Canada!3b1!8m2!3d49.2573026!4d-123.0906302!3m4!1s0x54867157dd0e54dd:0x85480a1825d71c6a!8m2!3d49.2573149!4d-123.0906293 , with her hair in need of styling, the 68-12 months-old Milton girl with preexisting well being conditions said she felt nervous about venturing to a salon through the coronavirus pandemic, and she "knew higher" than to strive a self-minimize again. Haircut Vancouver was flummoxed until she discovered about Andrea’s Cell Salon. Primarily based out of the back of a refurbished 1987 former UPS truck repainted purple, Andrea DePauw offers at-residence haircuts, washes, colorings, perms, waxes, up-dos and down-dos, and in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, she believes her enterprise has the potential to assist stem the spread of the disease. DePauw opened her beauty parlor on wheels one month ago on the premise that sure segments of the inhabitants desire to have their hair styled at dwelling. However as the coronavirus pandemic began to grow and lots of barber shops and salons quickly closed, her business advanced. Andrea’s Cellular Hair Salon travels to clients’ properties in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, charging a traveling payment for anybody dwelling exterior of the Milton area. The van, which suits just one barber's chair, was parked Tuesday within the driveway of Hesser’s house in Milton. After each buyer, the vehicle’s whole inside is washed down and sanitized. DePauw mentioned, as she started picking up bottles and spray cans. Despite a success to her general revenue, DePauw said she has also implemented a policy that each customer will receive their hair reduce or styling while sporting a model-new cape. She keeps the gross sales tags on the capes as proof of their cleanliness, and all the worn capes are discarded after only a single use to stop the spread of germs. Whereas DePauw trims hair, all of the instruments stored in her cellular salon that she is not utilizing are securely coated to stop contamination. DePauw said opening a cellular salon was a dream for about 10 years, but she got severe about it after watching her mother’s latest battles with the debilitating results of lymphoma. “Seeing what my mother went through - she has lymphoma, you already know, leukemia - and she lives up in Virginia and it impressed me to actually begin doing this,” she stated.