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Before and After Photos of People's Post-Lockdown Haircuts

Photographer Chris Bethell documented the first professional haircuts, and dyes the people of Manchester's Northern Quarter have had in four months.
Jamie Clifton
London, GB
Chris Bethell
photos by Chris Bethell
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After four long, shaggy months, England’s hairdressers, barbers, salons – anywhere you can get your hair trimmed, your roots dyed or a fun pattern shaved into your head – are mercifully open once again.

Photographer Chris Bethell spent Tuesday at RCNQ in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, taking before and after photos of customers and their post-lockdown cuts.

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Photos by Chris Bethell, assisted by Oliver Mounsey.