Anyone else not seeing friends until they've had a haircut?

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I know there are bigger issues but we're still allowed to miss personal grooming.

The rules were slightly eased yesterday but I don't feel like seeing anyone until i can at least get my hair and eyebrows done.
Majority of people seem to look fine even though we've had no salon access for nearly 4 months, but my hair has been growing into a short bob and looks more like a mullet, eyebrows are a state as I can't do my own well.
Been running but haven't been to the gym in 4 months either so just feel flabby.

Honestly don't want to see anyone until after the 12th, anyone else feel like this?

I just don't feel confident in myself to go out socialising until I am better groomed

That's quite sad..perhaps you should be focusing on your self esteem more than your self image?

No I don’t feel like this at all. My friends have seen me days after giving birth, in hospital with sepsis, throwing up after a few too many drinks in my younger years etc. Why would they care that my hair is too long and my eyebrows straggly?

This is really sad.
I don’t care about things like this, but I understand that other people lack confidence to look anything other than “groomed”. If you were planning a meet say a day later to do these things - I’d understand that.
But I think there’s something really sad about avoiding friends for 2 more weeks after a lockdown ends, because this is so important to you 😕

I've worked in school throughout the pandemic, my roots, outgrown hair and neglected nails are seen by many colleagues, parents etc everyday.
I've also kept in very regular contact with my friends via zoom or on many walks. Have you not seen your friends at all op?

I'm aghast that anyone would think like this but it does make me realise that people have lead a very different and much more sheltered life than me over the past 12 months!!

No, I find it hard to get my head around why anyone would think that. I don’t understand how you “groom” your eyebrows.

Have you not being going to work or shopping?

Get some self esteem for yourself and less shallow friends

Havent seen my family and majority of friends in nearly two years... I dont care what they look like! I just want to see them :)

I don’t understand how you “groom” your eyebrows

No, of course you don't

@daisypond

No, I find it hard to get my head around why anyone would think that. I don’t understand how you “groom” your eyebrows.

what is there to understand?

No because everyone is in the same boat, and I value friendship above groomed hair and eyebrows!
Seriously everyone’s bar has been set way lower in terms of grooming and appearance ...

Nah, I can't wait to see my friends. I'm a fan of beauty treatments and usually get my hair, nails, eyebrows and eyelashes done but I can go out socialising without them done. Had no choice this past year!

The haircut I get, but you can bung on a diy colour which washes out. Eyebrows; well I have never had mine ‘done’. I tweeze the odd stray and use an eyebrow pencil. And it’s not just cos I’m oldish; my very stylish adult DD does the same.
I have had my nails done a few times but I prefer to do my own. I hate false nails and find gel weakens mine considerably. Not difficult to do your own, lots of products cheap in Boots.

I seem to have gone a bit feral during lockdown. I used to put my makeup on just to go to the shop but after just a few months of lockdown I found myself going out bare faced with my hair scraped up. I'm not bothered by who sees me in my current state. My DH on the other hand has started to look a bit mad scientist with his thick curly hair and he dreads seeing anyone.

How sad that you are limiting your life in this way. Did feminism pass you by completely ?

I think this is sad.

My self esteem is not bound up entirely in the way I look, fortunately. And my friends would not judge or care.

My hair has very definitely grown out of the style it was cut into. My skin has been problematic since the start of the pandemic.

I work in a secondary school and have had to work on site all term (care of V/KW pupils). Nobody has (yet) recoiled with horror at the sight of me, so I expect my friends will cope.

I've just been on a dog walk with the one friend I've seen during lockdown (socially distanced) and it's a toss up which of us looks more like Hagrid
She has roots, I have wild long grey and split ends galore..
I've worked in school throughout the pandemic and watched my colleagues get scruffier or cut their own.. and it really really doesn't matter.
I'm just looking forward to seeing my family soon!
Looking forward to a haircut soon but

I don’t think this is about your hair or eyebrows, but rather anxiety about other stuff

No I don't feel like this at all and I haven't had my hair done since last July.

@daisypond

No, I find it hard to get my head around why anyone would think that. I don’t understand how you “groom” your eyebrows.

You don't understand plucking and trimming?

Seriously?

That's really tragic op. You need to work on your self esteem of you think going out looking "perfect" is more important than actual relationships.

Jesus, no. My hairs a state, but I've been on work video calls every day and nobody's keeled over at the sight of me. I love my friends and want to see them. They don't give a fuck what I look like.

I’m assuming you’re not being completely serious and you’re just talking about wanting to feel like you look nice the first time you see your friends.
If so I agree with you. But I wouldn’t put off seeing them because of it.
Everyone is in the same boat but I cannot WAIT for my salon trip in a couple of weeks and I do have a bit more motivation to exercise but I think that’s just better mental health in general because winter is behind us.

No. If I felt self conscious about meeting any friends because of anything to do with my appearance, I'd realise they weren't real friends.