No cups of tea or small talk but no more roots - my first trip to the hairdressers in three months

Reporter Aoife Walsh headed to the hairdressers this morning to experience life in the salon post-lockdown - after three months of debating home dye kits and haircuts

Reporter Aoife Walsh getting her colour and hair done by Alan Keville of Alan Keville Hair in Powerscourt Townhouse. Photo by Steve Humphreys, 29th June 2020

Aoife Walsh

Since the hair salons shut up shop three months ago, I quickly had to make peace with the dreadful sight of my brown roots slowly flooding my bleached blonde locks.

As the days in lockdown went on and my hair grew longer, I began to toy with the idea of dying it brown or dabbling in a at-home bleach kit and chopping it off myself, but past experiences taught me all too well that when it comes to hair, leave it to the professionals.