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Can I get contamined like this !? (Barber cut himself and continue to cut my hair)

Hello everyone. I speak of Brazil, so please forgive me for my English. Yesterday I had a haircut. In the middle of the process, the barber cut his left hand with the scissors, using the scissors in his right hand. Immediately he stopped cutting my hair and went to wash his hands and used scissors. After that, he returned and resumed the haircut. There was still some blood, for he did not cover the wound. Then he set a toilet paper down the drain, which stopped the bloodo flow. So he proceeded to use the scissors to cut the top of my hair, using the left hand, with the frash small cut on the finger for help (I know that was a small cut because I returned there today and it already wass fully healed). After that, he finished the haircut using a clipper. He did not cut me with the scissors, my fear is that I have dandruff and at the moment there were some head injuries (closed), since I had itched the morning of the cut. So the fear is that blood will have fallen on these wounds, leading to infection. Thanks to all for your understanding !!!
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This is not a situation about which you need to worry at all.
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Thanks so much! ThereĀ“s just one 'if'. The cut was at the top of the index finger, almost at the junction with the forearm, so no direct contact with my head. My fear is that  some blood may have slipped into the lower part of his finger, and then came in contact with some of my healing wounds (from the dandruff). Still, do not you think I should worry? Thank you !!
You had no HIV risk and a test would be a waste of time.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make your encounter a risk for HIV. Millions of people touch their hand cuts to other people's cuts who have HIV when they go to the barber or shake hands, but no one ever gets HIV this way.
Thanks so much for the reply !!! I really  i appreciated that!
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