As part of California’s new, four-tiered reopening system, hairdressers will be allowed to operate indoors beginning Friday in Alameda County, one of the state’s final holdouts to lift restrictions on the industry, health officials announced Wednesday.

Although the county is, like most in the state, still categorized as purple or “widespread” — the most severe of the four tiers — the new state guidelines permit certain activities while placing additional restrictions on others. Even purple counties are allowed to reopen indoor hair salons and barbershops, as well all retail and malls at 25% capacity, though stricter local restrictions still take priority.

That means that across the Bay Bridge, hairdressers just got the OK to reopen outdoors this week and have no timeline for opening indoors, even though San Francisco is one of a handful of counties in the more lenient red tier. Most sectors are allowed to reopen at limited capacities once a county makes it to the second tier, but San Francisco’s local restrictions will keep it closer in line with the state’s most restrictive guidelines.

Alameda County has also reopened at a slower pace than the rest of the state and many of its Bay Area neighbors.

Restaurants that were once told to reopen weren’t able to do so, though now any establishment in the county should be cleared to offer outdoor service, as long as it comes with food. Indoor malls were shuttered when the county landed on the state monitoring list, but now will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity.

Just last week, salons in Alameda County got the green light to open outdoors, while some as close as 10 minutes away across the Contra Costa county line have been open since July, leading to mounting frustration among hairdressers.

On Friday, they will be able to serve clients inside for the first time since March.

Only now, it will come with eight pages worth of rules and restrictions to follow. Number one: Masks must stay on at all times.