THIS WEEK ON NATIONAL TODAY FRIDAY MAY 19

FRIDAY MAY 19

National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day
It’s time to reverse the roles and ask your barber how they are feeling.



It’s a near certainty that when you sit down in your barber’s chair they’re going to ask you how you’re doing. National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day on May 19 was created to ensure that we’re remembering to return the question, to check in with our barbers as they so often check in on us. Barbers work intimately with multiple people every day, dealing with different energies and personalities all the time. It’s not uncommon for a customer to unload their personal struggles onto their barber and that can be a heavy burden to carry, especially if the barber is having a bad day themselves. National Barber Mental Health Awareness was created by Booksy — the app that connects a community of thousands of beauty and health service providers with their customers— to help people realize that barbers take on a lot and to give them the opportunity to talk about their problems, too.