Under the "grey-lockdown" zone of Ontario's colour-coded pandemic plan, personal care services are prohibited from opening and have been completely shuttered for the past four months. "Beauty United Council of Ontario, a group representing approximately 10,000 beauty and personal care businesses, called on the provincial government to reopen the decimated beauty industry in an open letter to Premier Doug Ford," the group wrote in a statement on Thursday. "There is no data to suggest that the beauty and personal care industry is putting the public at risk," Paola Girotti, spokesperson for Beauty United, wrote in the letter. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Annette Palumbo, the executive director of Beauty United, says the Ford government has completely overlooked the beauty industry. "It's going to be tough for our trade and our beauty industry to recover," she said.

Source: CBC News March 26, 2021 02:22 UTC