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After the virus: Trends radically accelerated by Covid-19 crisis

Men kept off their barbers. [Shutterstock]

“Someone tell me this is Nicolas Cage and not the Mullah himself. Is he planning to appear in a blockbuster movie as the head of a cabal?” posed a Twitter user, commenting on lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi’s post, which showed him with a beard. That was last year.

The bushy beard is becoming a new trend in town as men from all walks of life kept away from their barbers as Covid-19 pandemic social distancing rules became a new normal. Now, 12 months on, long rusty beards are the in-thing. 

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