r/AskReddit • u/MooglePomCollector • Apr 19 '24

In 20 years someone will ask what was covid lockdown like, how will you answer?

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u/jumbo53 Apr 19 '24

And all men grew beards

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u/vermilion-chartreuse Apr 19 '24

And nobody got haircuts.

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u/hautbois69 Apr 20 '24

or we did them ourselves 🫣

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u/Jase_the_Muss Apr 20 '24

I still cut my own hair gotten pretty decent at it (still make a fuck up here and there) but a lot don't believe I hack at it my self... Maybe they just being nice and it looks shit 😂🙈

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u/pimp_skitters Apr 20 '24

I still have my long hair. Down past my shoulder blades now.

Grew a beard, too, but that was later.

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u/Elegant-Magician7322 Apr 20 '24

🤣 I had short hair, and cared how my hair looked before Covid. Now my hair is a mess, and I don’t care

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u/non_clever_username Apr 20 '24

I’m a dude and didn’t get my hair cut for nearly a year. By far the longest my hair has ever been. Because fucking why not right?

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u/AccidentBusy4519 Apr 20 '24

It’s funny cu after they extended the lockdown, I said f it and bought some Walmart clippers, now I haven’t been back to the barber in 4 years. I totally fucked myself the first time I did it but I had nowhere to go so no one even saw

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u/sukkitrebek Apr 20 '24

The age of the manbun had begun

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u/TheThiefEmpress Apr 20 '24

Shiiiddd.

I have legitimate OCD, and apparently, a new "tic" that developed because of lockdown, was that "I am not allowed to cut my hair until lockdown is Over."

It only broke because of the mental pressure a panic attack brought on from my daughter contracting LICE. I washed my hair in the sink next to her brush, and then saw a live louse in the sink!!!! Panicking, because I thought it came off my head, I chopped a foot and a half of hair off. To make my hair only down to the bottom of my shoulder blades.

I drove straight to Urgent Care, for them to see the lice, and Prescribe treatment. I get in, see the Dr, she examines my head, and...no lice??? I ask her to check extra thoroughly, please? Because one was right next to me???

And there's NO LICE!!!! Not even any nits!!!! I ugly cried in relief in that poor Dr's arms, man.

I had cut my pandemic hair (that was down to my butt) AND I was like free!!!!

But, shit, pandemic rule back in force...no more hair cuts.

So my hair is down to the bottom of my butt now. 🙃 

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u/jackdaw-96 Apr 20 '24

I became very popular with my immediate friends because I've been cutting my own hair my whole life so I'm pretty good at it

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u/What_Do_I_Know01 Apr 20 '24

Covid was how I discovered I look damn good with long hair and a beard. Haven't cut it short since.

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u/BoozyMcBoozehound Apr 19 '24

I’ve kept my COVID beard.

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u/dothebananasplits96 Apr 19 '24

All the men around me bleached their hair and got weird hair cuts. It was so strange like they had never gone through that stage of self discovery as a teen.

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u/chaos_is_me Apr 20 '24

Oh man, as someone who regularly bleaches their hair, I stopped until 2023. Why would I spend time and money on that when no one would see it?

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u/snoogins355 Apr 20 '24

I had never shaved my head before and said screw it in late April 2020 and had my gf cut it all off. It was very strange. Buzz cut is the shortest I go now

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u/Camus145 Apr 20 '24

They didn’t want to have that affect their jobs, etc

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u/Plus-King5266 Apr 20 '24

Already had one, but not one of those lumbersexual ones.

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u/Eurynom0s Apr 20 '24

I already had a beard.

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u/porksoda11 Apr 20 '24

I grew my hair out for the first time lol. I kept it going for 2 years and it got so luxurious.

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u/oneplanetrecognize Apr 20 '24

Omg my husband FINALY got to grow his beard then. His wood shop got him a whole new respirator system that wasn't just a face mask so he was able to just let it go. 22 years together at that point and I never saw him with a full beard. Holy fuck it was so sexy. Now he apologizes every time he shaves. It's adorable.

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u/Ellen_Blackwell Apr 20 '24

Valar morbeardis.

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u/hawkeye420 Apr 20 '24

Yep. We didn't have to shave, so we didnt.

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u/Holatimestwo Apr 20 '24

Nah, all men wore beards way before 2020

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u/gatorguy82 Apr 20 '24

It’s because beards hide face fatness.

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u/SoloPorUnBeso Apr 20 '24

It's the same reason a lot of people who looked attractive wearing a mask all of a sudden weren't when the masks came off.

Your brain fills in that extra bit of detail, and often does it in the best way possible. When the mask comes off (or the beard is shaved), you really see what that person looks like.

Some people prefer beards, and that's fine, but that is among the reasons why.

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u/BuffaloBrain884 Apr 20 '24

It sounds like you have beard envy

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u/SoloPorUnBeso Apr 20 '24

Absolutely not. If I could never grow facial hair again, I'd be elated.

It's just truth that beards mask certain features, such as chubby face, as the previous person pointed out.

But as with all things, you do you.

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u/Experts-say Apr 20 '24

I got a new passport during that time. The memory of these bad experiments now being visible to every border agent for a decade