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zergula · 1 year

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Welcome To Lunestia

The date is 7600.

Humanity finds itself alive and well on the planet of Lunestia! With its gorgeous greens, purples, pinks, and white fields it is definitely different than Earth but almost eerily the same. After the legendary forum wars of 2025, aliens have fully become a part of society on Earth as well as Lunestia. Great advancements in not only technology but human evolution have improved life in the universe more than any being could imagine!

I fell in love with Risa's Lunestia and Meroze maps as soon as I saw them! It was really hard to choose between those two to use for this space world save but Lunestia's beautiful terrain painting and blend won me over! I highly recommend both of these worlds, absolutely gorgeous and incredible work!

INTERESTING CHARACTERS

Mae, Malie, and Una Verse keep watch over the renovated remains of the First Contact ship that brought all beings to beautiful Lunestia! Although thankful for the great honor bestowed upon them from their ancestors, these young beings just want to have some fun, sometimes!

The Goth family and Bachelor family fell into a wormhole in Sunset Valley and have found themselves farther in the future than they could even imagine!

Candy is a plantsim who is trying her very best to recreate all of the lovely plants from Earth! She lives in her underground lab and you can find her there or above ground tending to all of her lovely friends…uh plants!

Skyla Martial is a genius who has filled her home with bots that she treats like family but never stopped to wonder if she wants an actual family. Either way, the bots fill that void…for now.

Finally, you will find lots of beings from Oasis Landing and Lunar Lakes here: Amelia Loveland, Kel Gwyn, Harkin Shire, Fawn Lacey, Felix Finn, The Planesons, The James family, The Mosqueda family, The Su family, the Sekemoto Family, Eleanor Alto, the Castle family, the Star family, the Orey family, and the Landgraab Clones.

Around Town

29 Community Lots 62 Residential Lots

There's lots to do in Lunestia! Along with all EA rabbitholes, you can visit:

The Millennium Falcon Bot Emporium - A recreation of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars by soocoolsim! It includes the bot emporium register, comics register, and a food register.

The Future Fashion Salon - - I have been experimenting with combining rabbitholes, registers, and lots on one lot and am loving the results! It saves so much room in town and I love how some of these rabbitholes/registers/lots work together! This is a salon and tattoo shop that includes the Elixir Consignment register, nectary register, consignment store register, and the Spa rabbithole.

Purple Flourite Museum - Art Gallery by Satureja13 that includes another nectary register.

Monsters Inc Stadium - a fun recreational park built by Hidehi for the Disney Magic Kingdom collaboration. The school and stadium rabbitholes are also located here.

Sapphire Ice Gym - by Satureja13 A small gym with all machines and martial arts stuff

Zephyr 47 - An old starship repurposed into Lunestia's favorite spot to watch the game, get some wings, and drink some juice with the old team! (shell by geminiagre, interior redone and converted to sportsbar by me)

Natatorium Pool - pool from Lunar Lakes

Laser Waves - A poolside club with lots of secret places to find!

Cosmic Ray's Bowling Lanes by Sandraelle is the place to be in Lunestia! A huge arcade with every game and numerous bowling lanes open at all times, all beings come here for fun and prizes, to grab some groceries, catch a movie, or have a quick meal at the diner!

Lunestia Library And Bookstore - a huge library with fun for the kids, snacks, the bookstore, and the Vault of Antiquity

Full Spectrum Fire Safety - by Waterheart197 - Even in the future, fire will still get you. Luckily, the fire safety beings here at Full Spectrum can help!

Bridgeport Acres Festival Grounds

Astro Orbiter - by soocoolsim is a fun hangout with a roller coaster, games, and snacks

Lunar Hub Casino - this is Lunestia's Live Show Venue that includes all casino games, giant performer's stage, nectary, and food register. You can find HOLODEK by Livvy1049 - a bright future lounge right next door!

Science Tech Center - bot emporium I built that includes the bot competition arena and observatory rabbitholes

Cube by Snowmoon - this dive bar is for surly beings only!

The MotherShip by Snowmoon is a little more inviting for the locals in Lunestia. The Darts Competition is weekly, see you there!

It wasn't long after Lunestia was discovered that the Space Buzz Studio by Hidehi was built! You can always see some of the actors rehearsing on stages upstairs if you stop by to tour the studio rabbithole (in the basement).

Crater Lagoon is the town fishing spot stocked with all fish and not too far from there you will find Oasis Shoreline Beach!

Don't forget to visit the crash scene wreckage! It might look like a junkyard but very important research is being done here. You can see the renovated First Contact ship from here as well!

OTHER INFO

In this download, you will find the world and 3 save files:

LunestiaCommunityLots - this save has the community lots only, no residential houses or other lots

LunestiaUnpopulated - the is the final version of the save without sims

LunestiaPopulated - this is the final version of the save with all households

This save uses Into The Future, Lunar Lakes, and all sci fi store content extensively but there is zero custom content. I have all expansions, all stuff packs, and all store content but if you do not have some of the items, the game will generate a similar item for you (but you may have to edit). The only expansion not used is PETS so I am unsure how the save will perform with Pets, but there is definitely plenty of room for them!

Because this world was just roads and trees, I ran into the same problem I had with Simarellen, which was sometimes the lots do not line up perfectly with the roads. Some of the lots may look diagonal or incorrectly placed because of that but I have playtested everything and have not found any routing issues. This world save does use the Into The Future elevators profusely so there might be an issue with some of the elevators not working as intended. To fix this, simply go into build mode on the lot, go to the ground floor of the lot, use the hand tool to pick up the elevator and then drop it, this will reset the elevators to go to the correct floors. I tried not to fill the world up with lots too much, but it was hard to choose with so many excellent options out there! You can always add more, if you like!

This took me longer than I expected, my apologies for the delay! Please tag me @zergula or #lunestia if you share any photos, etc I would love to see them. You can find my other world saves here: River Falls here: Simarellen and here: Kaodina

Happy simming and green plumbobs for all <3

SIMFILESHAREDOWNLOAD

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gghoulish · 5 years

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Character Study. Bluejay Peachblossom Sylvia;

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FULL NAME. Bluejay Peachblossom Sylvia. MEANING. Well, he’s named after the blue jay, obviously, as well as peach blossoms. His family name is one that can mean something if you’re in supernatural circles. NICKNAME. Jay / Blue / Blossom. GENDER. Genderfluid; though for convenience they will refer to themselves by masculine terms, they also refer to themselves as being feminine/a woman, if they feel like it. HEIGHT. 5′3. AGE. 27. ZODIAC. Cancer. SPOKEN LANGUAGES. English, French, Italian, Spanish, and bits and pieces of other languages--- he doesn’t speak all of those entirely fluently, but he can make conversation.

P H Y S I C A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S .

HAIR COLOUR. Dark brown/blonde, like his mothers, though he sometimes dyes it black. EYE COLOUR. Seafoam blue. SKIN TONE. Pale. BODY TYPE. Has some weight on him; isn’t very muscular. ACCENT. Unique, given how he grew up. VOICE. Like his faceclaims, though a little more smooth/quiet. DOMINANT HAND. Left. POSTURE. He’s not one for standing up straight, or doing anything straight. He’s always leaning and is physically expressive. SCARS. He has some, from various mishaps, but he doesn’t talk about or seem to know any of their origins. TATTOOS. Feathers around left wrist, a pentagram on the palm of his right hand, ‘sylvia’ at the back of his neck, though it’s hidden by his hair. MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S). Anything he’s wearing is bound to make a statement. But he has very vibrant eyes and soft, curly hair, which makes him look quite cute.

C H I L D H O O D .

PLACE OF BIRTH. His family’s place. HOMETOWN. Loveland. BIRTH WEIGHT. Slightly below average. BIRTH HEIGHT. Average. MANNER OF BIRTH. Natural. FIRST WORDS. Probably ‘mama’ or something of the like. SIBLINGS. Raven, Cardinal. PARENTS. Finch and Rose. PARENT INVOLVEMENT. As a child, he was the one given the least amount of attention by his parents. Both Raven and Cardinal loved Bluejay and were very close with him, but the loss of Cardinal put a strain on his relationship with Raven, and they went from being inseparable to at an incredible distance. Bluejay just never excelled at his training and his affinity for fellow humans made him less desirable as a hunter.

A D U L T L I F E .

OCCUPATION. Hunter/tracker. He gets ingredients and other things for some healing/green witches who like him, but otherwise he just wanders and lives life day to day. He has no real purpose, so he just waits to see if anyone wants him around. CLOSE FRIENDS. None, other than Raven. RELATIONSHIP STATUS. Single. FINANCIAL STATUS. Fine. He might have to sleep in an abandoned place every now and then, but he doesn’t think he’s struggling. DRIVER’S LICENSE. No, but he can drive. CRIMINAL RECORD. None. VICES. Attention, recklessness, alcohol if he’s in a bad mood.

S E X A N D R O M A N C E .

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Homosexual/romantic; Bluejay is only attracted to masculine folks. However, he does appreciate women aesthetically. ROMANTIC ORIENTATION. ^ PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch. PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch. LIBIDO. Low / N/A. Bluejay doesn’t have sex very often, but that’s not to say he wouldn’t have it more often. TURN ON’S. Praise, definitely. They wanna feel attractive and adored. Bluejay hasn’t explored much sexually, but seems to enjoy being submissive more than anything else, and is openminded. TURN OFF’S. Queerphobia. Bluejay will not sleep with a man who’s obviously closeted or has repressed issues with aggression. He also does not enjoy any dirty talk that insinuates his gender/sexuality is wrong. Similarly, Bluejay will be immediately turned off if he’s mocked for any aspect of his identity. LOVE LANGUAGE. Bluejay shows his love in worrying for/caring about a person, very intensely at that. He doesn’t know how to love in moderation. He’s also clingy and likes validation, as he is permanently fearful of being abandoned. He doesn’t blame people for not wanting to be with him, but the prospect/outcome still hurts. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES. He’s had very few, if any, relationships that’ve lasted. No one knows how to deal with him, really. On top of that, Bluejay often hits a point where he won’t believe a person cares about him, since his anxiety gets overwhelming.

M I S C E L L A N E O U S .

CHARACTER THEME SONG. two of hearts / flamingo HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. Studying--- it might surprise his family, but he is one of the most studious Sylvia’s. He keeps so many notes that he has more than one journal. He also likes to go shopping and sew/alter clothes, as well as go clubbing. MENTAL ILLNESSES. He has severe anxiety and depression, though even without the trauma of his childhood, he’d always been an anxious child. He also has ADHD, which makes things more difficult for him. PHYSICAL ILLNESSES. None. LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. n/a. PHOBIAS. Raven being hurt/killed, other people being hurt, animals being hurt, pretty much everything revolves around the suffering of others. SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. Physically, very high. Bluejay doesn’t care for people who are shallow and judge him for his looks, but he does feel very inadequate when it comes to his personality and mental illnesses. Having rarely been told that he mattered or did anything right, he craves validation from anyone who will give it to him. VULNERABILITIES. Bluejay would do anything for anyone, should they ask nicely enough. He is against violence, but he’ll do what’s necessary, if he has to. Bluejay is perceived as more reckless and stupid than Raven because he is willing to throw himself into the middle of any fight he witnesses--- but it’s just out of instinct that he does this. He can’t bear to see people get hurt.

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How one Colorado business is navigating the state’s rules to reopen

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By Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News

LOVELAND — Blush Beauty Bar hair salon had been closed 48 days, a consequence of stay-at-home orders to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But last Tuesday, the shop in this city of nearly 80,000, about 50 miles north of Denver, was finally reopening after the orders had been partially lifted on May 1.

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It was booked solid its first day — and for each day the rest of the month. After seven weeks of isolation, it seems people desperately want to get their hair cut.

Still, as Colorado attempts a soft reopening, the three-person staff has had to adjust to a new way of doing business. Even before the salon opened its doors Tuesday, staffers had to rearrange its interior, eliminating the seating in the waiting area, and shifting the front counter to the side, allowing one customer at a time to wait 6 feet away in a spot marked with a blue taped X.

In the final minute before the salon reopened, stylist Diamond Herrera, 22, and receptionist Desi Orr, 19, tested out new no-touch forehead thermometers as owner Mindy Bodley, 40, reminded them of the new procedures.

As child care facilities, tattoo parlors and business offices reopen here, they must navigate new government guidelines designed to balance a restart of the economy against the possibility of reigniting the pandemic, all without scaring away customers. Indeed, a late April survey by Healthier Colorado and The Colorado Health Foundation found that 64% of Coloradans support a policy of staying home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, even if that means businesses will remain closed.

At 10 a.m., Orr stepped outside to meet their first customer, Amy Eldridge, 45, who had called from her car to announce her arrival. Orr used the new thermometer to confirm Eldridge didn’t have a fever, and then checked whether she had brought a face mask. Customers can also purchase a cloth one for $10 when they arrive.

“Have you been sick in the last 14 days?” Orr asked her. “Have you been around anyone who has been sick in the last 14 days? Do you have any flu-like symptoms?”

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Replying no to all three, Eldridge was allowed inside. But the first glitch emerged when Orr realized the door had locked behind her. It was part of the new protocol: No walk-in customers are allowed, so the door stays locked.

Once inside, Eldridge was asked to wash her hands before sitting down in the black leather salon chair, placing her purse and keys into a plastic box beside her.

“So how are things?” Bodley asked her as she prepared to cut Eldridge’s hair.

“They’re good!” Eldridge replied.

And at least for the moment, it all felt familiar. She had made the appointment seven months earlier and now her strawberry-blonde hair had reached down to the middle of her back. Eldridge couldn’t have known last fall that the salon would close down for seven weeks due to a never-before-seen virus that would shut down the nation’s economy and keep most people sheltered at home and desperate for a haircut.

“I’ve worked from home for 15 years, so for me this hasn’t been a big change. And I only get my hair cut twice a year,” Eldridge said. “But at the same time, I get so excited about my appointments.”

Eldridge has known Bodley for more than a decade, which removed any fears of coming to the salon.

“I have total trust in Mindy, and not just for my hair,” she said, as Bodley went to mix some hair dye for her. “I know she always has her customers’ safety in mind. She wouldn’t do anything to compromise her customers or her business.”

Soon after, Macall McFall, 26, arrived to get her long brown hair colored before her graduation from an occupational therapy program next week.

“We’re having a virtual graduation,” McFall said, with a note of disappointment.

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The Blush experience, where a visit can cost $150 or more, is still the same pampering extravagance it has always been, with a few minor tweaks. Both the customers and the stylists must wear masks the entire time, and Bodley and Herrera work in hot-pink rubber gloves they previously used only for messy jobs like dyeing.

They no longer offer beverages to customers and won’t sit next to them to chat as they wait for the dye to set. The salon is no longer taking glamour photos of clients sporting their new looks amid special lighting and backdrops. And they can fit in fewer appointments per day given the new safety steps.

It all was an adjustment for both stylist and customer.

“I feel like I can’t see,” Bodley said at one point as the mask rode up while working on Eldridge’s hair. “It’s sort of important to my job.”

The COVID pandemic colored all aspects of the experience including the friendly banter at the salon. Instead of complimenting a customer’s blouse or shoes, Herrera admired McFall’s blue-patterned face mask. “It’s so cute!”

The women shared their quarantine stories and updated one another on Netflix shows they had binge-watched at home: from “Waco” to “Dance Moms” and, of course, “Tiger King.” There was a broad consensus that Carole Baskin had killed her previous husband.

Blush has been open for four years at its 4th Street location, just off the city’s main drag. Bodley has a loyal customer base as evidenced by the “Best Salon in Loveland” certificates, awarded by readers of the local newspaper, hanging on the wall. Still, once the virus appeared in the U.S. and made its way to Colorado, business had started to slow.

“Our numbers have been down this year,” Bodley said. “You never know what people will be scared of, but the beauty industry, hair, is usually a recession-proof business.”

At first, she didn’t know what to make of the slowdown, even as many of her friends were starting to stockpile toilet paper, hand sanitizer and flour and preparing for a lockdown.

“I prepared for Y2K,” Bodley recalled thinking. “I am not preparing for this.”

But by March, customers were canceling appointments. Phone alerts would buzz in the middle of haircuts, informing customers their child’s school was closing or some other routine aspect of their family’s life was shutting down.

Then on March 18, Bodley learned the state was shutting down nonessential businesses. She finished with the client she had in her salon at the time, squeezed in her best friend for one last appointment, and then closed up shop. She locked the door and took the salon’s last three rolls of toilet paper home with her.

Bodley’s husband orders beer for a liquor store, which was deemed an essential industry in Colorado, so he continued to work. The dog supply store Bodley owns next to the salon was able to shift to online sales. And she did receive a $2,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan. But she still has rent and bills to pay.

“I am relieved to be back working,” she admitted. “This month will be a push. We have to cover May and June.”

Besides the restaurants and coffee shops that shifted to takeout services to stay open during the closure, most of the other retail businesses remained closed even though the state was slowly reopening.

“It’s a ghost town,” Bodley said. “I live on this street and I’ve never had so much parking.”

Still, the first day back was all smiles, even if they were hidden behind face masks; a hint that life could return to some semblance of pre-pandemic patterns, even if so much of the future remains clouded.

“I’m ready for Marshalls to open,” Bodley said. “I miss the people, but I didn’t really miss working. I thought, ‘How are we surviving?’ It’s because nothing is open for me to spend money on!”

Eldridge agreed.

“Our checkbook has seen some serious healing,” she said.

As she trimmed inches off Eldridge’s hair, Bodley admitted that “cutting hair in gloves is not cool. We already know I can’t see.”

Herrera had similar challenges as she dried McFall’s hair.

“I’m hoping it’s dry,” she said. “I can’t feel.”

But those hurdles were a small price to pay.

“I’m just happy to be here,” McFall said as she checked the new hue of her long hair in the mirror. “I love it! It looks so good!”

She moved to the counter to pay her bill, stretching her arm as far she could to hand Herrera her credit card to try to maintain the proper distance.

When McFall left, Herrera sprayed disinfectant on the chair, the counter and the plastic bin that had held her personal items. She wiped down the hand mirror her client had held. In other times, it would seem odd, almost insulting, to take such measures.

But the pandemic has altered nearly every part of normal life, even something as routine as a haircut, and nobody knows for how long.

“This could be our new normal,” Herrera said.

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alyxeris · 7 years

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tonight’s been absolutely wild after all my plans fell through today.

so all my plans fell through today. i spent the morning spackling over the nail holes in my ceiling with my landlady, then replacing the bulb in my headlight, and then picking up my meds. after that my boss at the oddity shop told me to drop by because he had an old camera there for me. so i swung by there and he decided, fuck it, we’ll go see the ringling trains today instead of tomorrow. so we went downtown to go hang out with the trains, which were completely deserted because everyone was at the show (and most people don’t give a fuck about trains anyway). after that he decided, fuck it again, let’s go get dinner at the casino and play some slots since he made some decent money at the shop. one, great fucking food. two, i totally doubled his money because i have crazy luck when i’m not playing for myself. so then after that, we decided to go celebrate at the video archive, which is a tarantino’s pulp fiction themed speakeasy bar (totally owned by the same people who have a shining themed bar in town). when we walked in we found out kevin smith (yes, that kevin smith) had stopped in earlier and the bar was giving 100% profits that night to his charity of choice, the wayne foundation (working to stop sex trafficking). so the boss decides whoever spends the most on their tab that night gets a $300 gift certificate to his shop. holy shit, people got wasted and were like falling down drunk. so then his buddy stops by who hunts ghosts and does podcats, and we were chatting for a while before heading home. of course home for us is loveland, so we drove past the river looking for frogman. naturally, nothing showed up, but you still have to check. now i’m back home at my flat in westwood wondering what the fuck even happened today. and then tomorrow i get to drive down to lexington to get a tattoo!

#alyxeris #personal #it's like the week is apologizing for being so shitty before #it'll probably be shitty again tomorrow #also i totally drank the boss under the table which was hilarious #AND he has three precious pitbulls that i got to pet holy shit they are so cute

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stephenmccull · 4 years

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How COVID Colors The Salon Experience

LOVELAND, Colo. — Blush Beauty Bar hair salon had been closed 48 days, a consequence of stay-at-home orders to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But last Tuesday, the shop in this city of nearly 80,000, about 50 miles north of Denver, was finally reopening after the orders had been partially lifted on May 1.

It was booked solid its first day — and for each day the rest of the month. After seven weeks of isolation, it seems people desperately want to get their hair cut.

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“Have you been sick in the last 14 days?” Orr asked her. “Have you been around anyone who has been sick in the last 14 days? Do you have any flu-like symptoms?”

Once inside, Eldridge was asked to wash her hands before sitting down in the black leather salon chair, placing her purse and keys into a plastic box beside her.

“So how are things?” Bodley asked her as she prepared to cut Eldridge’s hair.

“They’re good!” Eldridge replied.

Blush Beauty Bar hair salon in Loveland, Colorado, has been swamped with clients coming in for haircuts, trims and color, now that the state is gradually reopening after its COVID-19 shutdown. Amy Eldridge was first among them.(Markian Hawryluk/KHN)

Eldridge has known Bodley for more than a decade, which removed any fears of coming to the salon.

Soon after, Macall McFall, 26, arrived to get her long brown hair colored before her graduation from an occupational therapy program next week.

“We’re having a virtual graduation,” McFall said, with a note of disappointment.

It all was an adjustment for both stylist and customer.

“I feel like I can’t see,” Bodley said at one point as the mask rode up while working on Eldridge’s hair. “It’s sort of important to my job.”

“Our numbers have been down this year,” Bodley said. “You never know what people will be scared of, but the beauty industry, hair, is usually a recession-proof business.”

At first, she didn’t know what to make of the slowdown, even as many of her friends were starting to stockpile toilet paper, hand sanitizer and flour and preparing for a lockdown.

“I prepared for Y2K,” Bodley recalled thinking. “I am not preparing for this.”

“I am relieved to be back working,” she admitted. “This month will be a push. We have to cover May and June.”

“It’s a ghost town,” Bodley said. “I live on this street and I’ve never had so much parking.”

Eldridge agreed.

“Our checkbook has seen some serious healing,” she said.

As she trimmed inches off Eldridge’s hair, Bodley admitted that “cutting hair in gloves is not cool. We already know I can’t see.”

Herrera had similar challenges as she dried McFall’s hair.

“I’m hoping it’s dry,” she said. “I can’t feel.”

But those hurdles were a small price to pay.

“I’m just happy to be here,” McFall said as she checked the new hue of her long hair in the mirror. “I love it! It looks so good!”

She moved to the counter to pay her bill, stretching her arm as far she could to hand Herrera her credit card to try to maintain the proper distance.

But the pandemic has altered nearly every part of normal life, even something as routine as a haircut, and nobody knows for how long.

“This could be our new normal,” Herrera said.

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How COVID Colors The Salon Experience

LOVELAND, Colo. — Blush Beauty Bar hair salon had been closed 48 days, a consequence of stay-at-home orders to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But last Tuesday, the shop in this city of nearly 80,000, about 50 miles north of Denver, was finally reopening after the orders had been partially lifted on May 1.

It was booked solid its first day — and for each day the rest of the month. After seven weeks of isolation, it seems people desperately want to get their hair cut.

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“Have you been sick in the last 14 days?” Orr asked her. “Have you been around anyone who has been sick in the last 14 days? Do you have any flu-like symptoms?”

Once inside, Eldridge was asked to wash her hands before sitting down in the black leather salon chair, placing her purse and keys into a plastic box beside her.

“So how are things?” Bodley asked her as she prepared to cut Eldridge’s hair.

“They’re good!” Eldridge replied.

Eldridge has known Bodley for more than a decade, which removed any fears of coming to the salon.

Soon after, Macall McFall, 26, arrived to get her long brown hair colored before her graduation from an occupational therapy program next week.

“We’re having a virtual graduation,” McFall said, with a note of disappointment.

It all was an adjustment for both stylist and customer.

“I feel like I can’t see,” Bodley said at one point as the mask rode up while working on Eldridge’s hair. “It’s sort of important to my job.”

“Our numbers have been down this year,” Bodley said. “You never know what people will be scared of, but the beauty industry, hair, is usually a recession-proof business.”

At first, she didn’t know what to make of the slowdown, even as many of her friends were starting to stockpile toilet paper, hand sanitizer and flour and preparing for a lockdown.

“I prepared for Y2K,” Bodley recalled thinking. “I am not preparing for this.”

“I am relieved to be back working,” she admitted. “This month will be a push. We have to cover May and June.”

“It’s a ghost town,” Bodley said. “I live on this street and I’ve never had so much parking.”

Eldridge agreed.

“Our checkbook has seen some serious healing,” she said.

As she trimmed inches off Eldridge’s hair, Bodley admitted that “cutting hair in gloves is not cool. We already know I can’t see.”

Herrera had similar challenges as she dried McFall’s hair.

“I’m hoping it’s dry,” she said. “I can’t feel.”

But those hurdles were a small price to pay.

“I’m just happy to be here,” McFall said as she checked the new hue of her long hair in the mirror. “I love it! It looks so good!”

She moved to the counter to pay her bill, stretching her arm as far she could to hand Herrera her credit card to try to maintain the proper distance.

But the pandemic has altered nearly every part of normal life, even something as routine as a haircut, and nobody knows for how long.

“This could be our new normal,” Herrera said.

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How COVID Colors The Salon Experience

LOVELAND, Colo. — Blush Beauty Bar hair salon had been closed 48 days, a consequence of stay-at-home orders to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But last Tuesday, the shop in this city of nearly 80,000, about 50 miles north of Denver, was finally reopening after the orders had been partially lifted on May 1.

It was booked solid its first day — and for each day the rest of the month. After seven weeks of isolation, it seems people desperately want to get their hair cut.

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“Have you been sick in the last 14 days?” Orr asked her. “Have you been around anyone who has been sick in the last 14 days? Do you have any flu-like symptoms?”

Once inside, Eldridge was asked to wash her hands before sitting down in the black leather salon chair, placing her purse and keys into a plastic box beside her.

“So how are things?” Bodley asked her as she prepared to cut Eldridge’s hair.

“They’re good!” Eldridge replied.

Eldridge has known Bodley for more than a decade, which removed any fears of coming to the salon.

Soon after, Macall McFall, 26, arrived to get her long brown hair colored before her graduation from an occupational therapy program next week.

“We’re having a virtual graduation,” McFall said, with a note of disappointment.

It all was an adjustment for both stylist and customer.

“I feel like I can’t see,” Bodley said at one point as the mask rode up while working on Eldridge’s hair. “It’s sort of important to my job.”

“Our numbers have been down this year,” Bodley said. “You never know what people will be scared of, but the beauty industry, hair, is usually a recession-proof business.”

At first, she didn’t know what to make of the slowdown, even as many of her friends were starting to stockpile toilet paper, hand sanitizer and flour and preparing for a lockdown.

“I prepared for Y2K,” Bodley recalled thinking. “I am not preparing for this.”

“I am relieved to be back working,” she admitted. “This month will be a push. We have to cover May and June.”

“It’s a ghost town,” Bodley said. “I live on this street and I’ve never had so much parking.”

Eldridge agreed.

“Our checkbook has seen some serious healing,” she said.

As she trimmed inches off Eldridge’s hair, Bodley admitted that “cutting hair in gloves is not cool. We already know I can’t see.”

Herrera had similar challenges as she dried McFall’s hair.

“I’m hoping it’s dry,” she said. “I can’t feel.”

But those hurdles were a small price to pay.

“I’m just happy to be here,” McFall said as she checked the new hue of her long hair in the mirror. “I love it! It looks so good!”

She moved to the counter to pay her bill, stretching her arm as far she could to hand Herrera her credit card to try to maintain the proper distance.

But the pandemic has altered nearly every part of normal life, even something as routine as a haircut, and nobody knows for how long.

“This could be our new normal,” Herrera said.

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Sealed with a kiss

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The town of Loveland, Colorado, in the lap of the white-tipped Rocky Mountains, is smitten with Valentine’s Day, writes Andy Jones. Ask nicely and they’ll even send you a card.

In the Loveland postal room, the thump-thump sound of ink stamp on pad serves as a drum beat to the crooning swoon of a barbershop quartet.

The singing foursome, suited in crisp pink and white, are cooing the melody of Let Me Be Your Sweetheart as a chorus of pensioners sift through piles of pink mail.

For two weeks every year, Loveland volunteers stamp and redecorate hundreds of thousands of letters from all corners of the globe, so that lovers can present the objects of their desires with letters postmarked in the land of love.

The missives come from as far away as China and the UK, and are forwarded to all kinds of famous addresses.

President Obama received one at the White House, Hugh Hefner has them posted to his girls at the Playboy Mansion. Even TV star Oprah Winfrey is a fan.

Local businesses feed breakfast to the volunteers. An Elvis lookalike comes in to sing to them, and the stampers – like silver-haired Valentine’s elves – busy away in the workshop, karaoke-ing along to toe-tapping bluegrass classics.

Among all the free pie and coffee, the head of the re-mailing programme, Mindy McCloughan, gushes: “It’s just like being at your grandma’s house.”

The Loveland re-mailing programme was born some 70 years ago, when a postmaster called Mr Ivers, a devoted philatelist, began re-addressing all mail “From The Sweetheart City.”

Cupid’s bow now sends some 300,000 pieces of mail in Loveland’s direction, each one them to be stamped with a unique poem, always a step up from the tired old “Roses are Red, violets are blue.”

This year’s verse says:

From the Sweetheart City in a land of love,

Warm Thoughts of you are sent above.

On Wings they fly from land to sea,

Searching and finding the one to be.

Any broken hearts had better leave town for the week – Loveland’s Valentines motto is: “Go heart or go home.”

On its neat, square boulevards, corner stores play slushy music, cake shops bake everything pink and even hardware stores try to add a little romance to the drills and saws.

On Fourth Street, every lamp-post displays a heart-shaped sign bearing a lover’s message.

There’s a race to buy the best spot – some are sold off three months in advance – with the best pitches being those visible to all locals and drivers along the expressway to Estes Park.

You can almost picture a bitter sweetheart furious that her sign is three streets too far to the left.

Locals Nicole and Dominic Yost, who have been together for 13 years, always buy each other a heart. It’s a treasure hunt finding them.

Nicole’s says: “Dominic, you will always have my heart.” In return, her husband’s manfully boasts: “Nicole, I love you more than bacon.”

It’s OK, she says – just like everyone in this part of America, where ranchers still herd cattle, meat is a big deal for Dominic.

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On Valentine’s night itself, as in every city, the occasion is an excuse to get drunk or get kissing. Couples queue up for Loveland Aleworks’ specially brewed pink beer, or at Grimm Brothers for its sell-out Bleeding Heart brews.

An ice festival adds a macho tone – tattooed sculptors chainsaw naked ladies or Chinese Koi carp designs on to ice blocks. Rock bands crash out tunes to audiences perched on hay bales.

But the best seats in the house are in the postal room. The Loveland Chamber of Commerce even has a “stamp camp” so postal volunteers can learn the necessary wrist action to transfer ink to envelope.

There’s a 70-person waiting list to take part and couples sit side-by-side stamping away, sealing far-off loves forever in ink.

I’m told the only way most volunteers give up their seats in the postal room scheme is when a coffin carries them out of there. Till death us do part – a lot like love itself, then.

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