00:00My hair has always been a really big part of my look and having that kind of vibrancy
00:04always made me feel really good if my hair was looking good and feeling good.
00:08So having that stripped away really took away a big part of me.
00:16My name's Julie and today I'm having my hair cut by someone who's very special to me.
00:20I'm Jasmine and I'm the founder of the charity Cancer Hair Care.
00:24We support people from before, during and after their cancer treatment
00:29and we support them along that entire journey.
00:32The Cancer Hair Care partnership with Shorts Golf Life Color is really really exciting.
00:37For small charities it's so important for us to have a wholehearted partner.
00:41Today is a really important day because I'm going to be doing a haircut for Julie.
00:46What I'm going to be doing is taking what she would call her very first chemo hairs
00:50which have grown abundantly long and for her that means we're going to be saying goodbye to her cancer treatment.
00:56I was first diagnosed with cancer in February of 2018.
01:00I know in the scheme of things it seems like a trivial thing but for me my hair is such
01:04a big part of my identity.
01:05Into my late teens I grew it very long, I dye it very very red and then I was a
01:09little bit of a punk rocker
01:10in the 80s and used to back comb it and crimp it and shave it at the sides actually.
01:15So I've had lots of interesting colours and interesting styles but it's always been long and it's always been red.
01:21I'd had a number of different ideas about how I might manage my hair throughout cancer including a wig,
01:28including wearing hats, cutting it short potentially.
01:31So I was very confused when I walked into Cancer Hair Care and had a proper consultation about all of
01:37my options.
01:37It was a real lifting of that confusion and that fog.
01:42Hi there. Good to see you. Thank you, you too.
01:45Julie what are we going to do today?
01:46Well, you can see it's gone a little bit long and these little chemo curls are still hanging on in
01:53there at the end
01:54so it'd be great if you could make it just look really luscious.
01:57So what I'll do is I'll give a good shape up, you know we'll just bring in so it's nice
02:02and glossy,
02:03some shaping around the front and then we'll bring you back in a nice bouncy fringe.
02:21It feels to me that the real starting place of your journey was when you decided to give scalp
02:27cooling a go. Cancer Hair Care introduced me to a cold cap which is a cap that calls your scalp
02:33that can then preserve some of your hair. I felt really supported through that whole thing because
02:38it's quite a scary thing to go through actually some people can't tolerate scalp cooling so having
02:44all the information I needed was just really really helpful. Your hair was unfortunately thinning
02:48substantially wasn't it? Yeah. And then we decided to do a bit of a change and you had a bob
02:54I think
02:55it was about that length wasn't it? Yeah. How did that feel? I don't know it was a kind of
03:01moment where
03:02when I came in I just knew something had to change because I was getting so frustrated with it falling
03:06out and actually I just thought that's it I've had it so actually I needed to do something really
03:11positive and at that moment that felt really positive and empowering actually to make a decision
03:16about how to take it forward from there. And that was that length around there for you? Yeah.
03:21Longer than the bob but just to frame your face a bit. Perfect. How did it feel when you had
03:26that first
03:26colour completed on your new hair? Yeah it was quite an emotional moment. I also kind of came
03:32in my hat hiding my roots which were significant but also had lots of nice new hair coming through that
03:39had never never been touched by hair dye before so yeah it was really great to to have you do
03:45it and
03:47have it done in a way that I felt was safe. And it was great that I could go out
03:50and then
03:51buy the live box dye myself and dye my hair in the way I always had done.
04:19Look at your colour it's completely glossy isn't it? Yeah it's great that it's no longer my chemo hair.
04:25It's all mine and it looks so fresh and lovely. I was really lucky to have my hair grow back
04:32really
04:32full and vibrant. My year of treatment was particularly turbulent and very emotional but actually there
04:38are always some diamonds in the times of crisis. Coming across cancer hair care was one of the best
04:42things that came out of that whole year.
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