How To Get Help As A Cancer Patient Who Has Lost Hair Through Chemotherapy
How do you help cancer patients whose hair has fallen out?
I came to a crossroads in my life. Two years ago I did the biggest show I'd ever done, and in my opinion it was the best show I'd ever done. I thought this is the point where my life's in hairdressing is going to change. I'm gonna start putting my energies and efforts into trying to help women in their darkest hour of their lives. Being not only told that they've got perhaps a potential fatal disease, but you're going to lose your hair as well. And it's like the biggest double-whammy that any female could ever accept. And I decided to stop doing shows, stop doing photographic work, stop doing all of that what I call surface 'stuff', I've got a stronger word but I can't use it, and do something much more important and that's cut wigs for cancer patients and alopecia patients. And that's all I've been doing for the last year and a half. I've set up a charity called "mynewhair.org" and the money that's donated into that and it's from people like, for example, I've just cut a lady's wig a little while ago and I didn't charge her and she's wrote a little check out for twenty pounds for the charity, which I accepted, and the money that's in that charity is for buying wigs for people that can't afford them because there's a lot of people that just can't afford it. And I buy wigs for people that need it and that's why this is the last chapter in my hairdressing life and it's gives me more pleasure doing this than anything and everything that I've ever done in hairdressing. And I'm talking about all the glamorous stuff: flying around the world, doing shows, fashion models, and celebrities, this does more than all of that.
