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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: What tips are you sending out for grooming? Because, four to five weeks in, people are beginning to worry.
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JONATHAN VAN NESS, GROOMING EXPERT: Well, I think the more the part that I’m contributing is, I dance, usually in my skivvies, while making coffee every morning on my Insta-stories, and I show my cats, like, sprinting to their cat food bowls. And I did like this scenes…
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VAN NESS: … like cat house, that all of my cats are, like, fake news reporters, and they’re doing their little TV thing.
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VAN NESS: So, you know, I — yes, but, I mean, in all seriousness with, you know, how coronavirus is impacting, you know, self-care and hair maintenance and the beauty industry at large, it’s like, I definitely think that this is a time where it’s more about how we feel and how we’re taking care of ourselves vs. how we necessarily look. And so I think that, you know, right now, it’s about trying to use what we have at home. And, you know, if you have — if you’re lucky enough to have disposable income, and you want to order, you know, a new mask or something, or you want to incorporate some sort of self-care into your routine, obviously, we have a lot of time, you know, to do something like that. But I would also encourage you, if you do have the disposable income to get a facial mask right now, that you make sort of donation to someone in need. But, yes, I think that it’s really about trying to take care of our insides. And when it comes to the hairdressing, I have caught a little bit of flack for this for saying it, but it’s true. For me, it’s like four to six weeks, it’s like, no. Like, hair grows a quarter to a half-an-inch a month. So it’s like — and, also, I worry about us really messing up our hair and then like not having enough length for your hairdresser to work with when we’re able to get haircuts safely. And I want the beauty professionals to have work to do afterwards. So I’m like, don’t cut all your hair off. And unless you want to spend a lot of money, honey, like, don’t do at-home color, because that is expensive to fix.
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Chrisitane speaks with Ofer Shelah about how COVID-19 has affected politics in Israel; Audrey Azoulay about how cultural life around the world can still flourish; and Jonathan Van Ness about coping strategies under lockdown. Michel Martin speaks with Bakari Sellers about why the black community has been disproportionately affected by coronavirus.
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