{"id":33260,"date":"2021-05-15T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=33260"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:23:11","slug":"pandemic-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/pandemic-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hated My Pandemic Hair. A Daughter to the Rescue. Sheltering at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During a week-long visit with Jon and me, Christina figured out how to cut my flyaway pandemic hair. Photo by Jon Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The day before Jon went into the hospital with a stroke, I was putting together a fun post about my flyaway pandemic hair — and how, after twelve months of sheltering at home, I finally got a haircut.<\/p>\n

The haircut — if you can call it that —\u00a0 had been administered by my daughter.<\/p>\n

After quarantining at home in LA for ten days, Christina had driven up to the Bay Area to spend a week with Jon and me.<\/p>\n

She worked at home and stayed connected to her LA coworkers from the guest room. Jon worked on his novel in his office at the top of the stairs. I tended to this website from my writing room in the basement. Lunch breaks, evenings and weekends were spent enjoying each others’ company.<\/p>\n

Fluffy Pandemic Hair<\/strong><\/h5>\n

My uncut pandemic hair had been pleasantly fluffy and relaxed for the first few months of sheltering at home. I liked it.<\/a><\/p>\n

But by the time Christina showed up for that visit early in February, it looked awful.<\/p>\n

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My pandemic hair had grown bushy and disheveled after twelve months of sheltering at home. Photo by Jon Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I showed Christina the hairdressers scissors I’d bought online.<\/p>\n

Christina balked. She didn’t know how to cut hair. I insisted. Gamely, she went to YouTube and located a how-to-cut-covid-hair video.<\/p>\n

We repaired to the deck with my scissors and Christina’s laptop. Jon joined us with the camera. An hour or two later, I had a haircut.<\/p>\n

It was smashing.<\/p>\n

This Was Going to Be a Funny Story<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The story I was pulling together in February was a light-hearted one, complete with before and after pictures.<\/p>\n

I was looking forward to sharing it with you.<\/p>\n

But, of course, it got put aside in the shock and confusion of Jon’s unexpected death<\/a> three days later.<\/p>\n

Twitchy Nose for News<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Now, weeks later, my journalist’s nose for news is twitching. It’s time to get this story published. With the Centers for Disease Control easing up on pandemic restrictions, my light-hearted pandemic haircut story is up against its sell-by date.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it looks like it’s a wrap for the entire series of Sheltering at Home posts I’ve been doing since March, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, is it time to see if Gino the hairdresser is open for business. And if so, does he have the chops to replicate Christina’s sassy pandemic do?<\/p>\n

The Story<\/strong><\/h5>\n

That’s it. That’s my quarantine hairdo story.\u00a0It’s been a bittersweet enterprise, pulling this story together and revisiting a week in time when all three of us — Jon, Christina and I — were so innocent, so unsuspecting.<\/p>\n

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Christina’s first attempt at cutting my hair. Nice, but too poofy at the temples for me. Too ladylike. Too generic. So\u00a0 . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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. . . so I asked Christina to shorten the hair at my temples. Oops, she cut off too much on one side. That meant she had to whack away at the other side to even things up. I loved the result. Chic. Trendy. Not so ladylike . . . That’s Jon in the background, also in need of a haircut, which I never got to give him.\u00a0 Photo by Christina Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"


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My daughter had never cut anyone’s hair, ever. But my flyaway pandemic hair needed cutting. So I took a chance. The results were smashing. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,14],"tags":[146,2179,571,566,29,2443,2322,2184],"class_list":["post-33260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","category-widowed","tag-christina","tag-coronavirus","tag-daughters","tag-fashion","tag-jon","tag-pandemic-hair","tag-quarantine-hair","tag-sheltering-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49451,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33260\/revisions\/49451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}