ISOLATION haircuts and quirky new styles have been all the rage since salons and barbers were forced to close in response to the outbreak of coronavirus.

And with the country now on lockdown for at least another two weeks, more and more people have been asking their loved ones to take the clippers to tame their overgrown barnets.

Some people have been braving the shave in aid of charity, like Richard Bowdidge from West Bergholt.

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His live-streamed trim has raised £4,000 for the Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation’s, which has launched its Do Something Hairy to Make Cancer Less Scary appeal.

Mark Pearson, 39, and his two sons Oscar, 13, and Ellis, nine, have also used their Mohawk haircuts to fundraise for Colchester Zoo, which is struggling financially because of the pandemic.

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Others, however, have been slicing into their hair purely to pass the time and to reverse their growing style’s voyage into previously uncharted waters.

Craig Johnson, from Frinton, for example, decided to let his wife, Sarah, hack into his usually neat look after she reassured him she could do a good job.

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But the end result makes a strong argument for why hairdressers should be considered key workers.

Sarah Kamara, from Clacton, “thought it would be a good idea” to give her son, Jackson, ten, a trim.

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But it wasn’t long before she was calling a local hairdresser for urgent advice,

“I attempted to use clippers on my son but that was a big mistake,” she said.

“He will hopefully be talking to me again by his 18th birthday.”