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Hair Business CarloMoni Grapples with Social Distancing
5/8/2020 | 2m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Hair care companies like CarloMoni faced extra challenges at the onset of the pandemic.
How do you social distance when your job requires physical contact? As the pandemic has shuttered business, salon owner Monica Slayton of CarloMoni faces challenging questions.
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Making It is a local public television program presented by Ideastream
Making It
Hair Business CarloMoni Grapples with Social Distancing
5/8/2020 | 2m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
How do you social distance when your job requires physical contact? As the pandemic has shuttered business, salon owner Monica Slayton of CarloMoni faces challenging questions.
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You'll have people spend a lot of time there and it's not just for the service, you know the people there by name and they've known you for years.
To me, they're everything.
What would this country be without small businesses?
(soft hip hop music) Hi, my name is Monica Slayton.
I am the owner of CarloMoni Hair Care Products and Monicarlos Hair Creations.
I've been a hairstylist for... this is my 26th year and out of my hair salon, I'm very proud of Moni Hair Care Products.
This crisis has impacted my business tremendously.
We went from, I'mma say jogging to just at a standstill.
The salon was shut down middle of March, that was my hair clients for me and the other stylists and also, the bulk of CarloMoni Hair Care Product sales, stopped.
(chuckles) It's kinda scary because how do you have a safe distance when you service people touching them?
When somebody is laying back in a shampoo bowl, they're breathing in your face but how impersonal is it to ask somebody, soon as they walk in the salon, "Wash your hands."
"Put on a mask."
"Can I check your temperature?"
I don't know how to properly move forward and I hope the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology gives us some tools that we can use movin' forward.
I don't think it'll ever go back to life as usual because you can't, because in the back of your mind, I think for a long time, when you hug somebody, when you shake hands with somebody, when somebody is coughing in a room, I think what we went through is gonna pop up, so, I think things will always, from this point on, be different for us.
Me bein' a hairstylist for so long, I used to think about the day that I wouldn't have to do hair anymore, retirement from that, not from working, but just from that and now, I feel like I miss my clients, I miss 20 something years of doin' this constantly.
This is the longest that I've went since I was a teenager without combing someone's hair, so, I have a new appreciation and love for my business and for my clients.
I don't think I'll be focused on tryin' to get out of it because when you have somethin' taken away from you, you respect it different when it comes back.
I don't think that we'll ever go through anything in our lifetime as hard as this.
I pray we don't, I pray we don't.
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