Brow bar was fully booked for more than 2,600 appointments before the Government postponed reopening, as business owner warns jobs could now be lost. 

Vanita Parti, the founder of eyebrow threading salon Blink Brow Bar, told BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme: “This is our third false start, we had expected to open twice in July and then on the 1st of August. So we’ve had to repeatedly bring our team back to prepare, create rotas, make sure our appointment schedules are up.

“We were fully booked for the first few weeks. When we expected to open on the 1st August we had 2,600 appointments that we’ve had to cancel.

“So we believe we can bounce back and if we can we won’t have to make those redundancies but we need to open our doors, the demand is there customers have got the appetite for our business so we are pleading with the Government to let us do so.” 

She added that the company’s cash reserves were being “fast depleted” and that having to make contributions to furlough staff from September made her feel “quite sick”. 

“I do worry that our business is going to be destroyed and it doesn’t have to be that way. As I keep expressing, we’re very hygienic, we feel safe and if we can’t open our doors it’s due to poor decisions by the Government rather than the virus,” she said.