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On this episode of Hair Me Out, we feature Jordan VanSweden getting her first human hair wig from The Wig Fairy in Beverly Hills, CA. Watch how Mona gives Jordan her dream wig.

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Transcript
00:01Last fall I was diagnosed with breast cancer, stage 4, lost about 95% of my
00:08hair and I still don't quite feel like myself. So I feel like once I am able to
00:14get a wig that I am confident and comfortable in, just being able to go
00:18out anywhere or just feel like myself again is going to be huge.
00:30Hi, I'm Jordan and today I'm at the Wig Fairy and I'm here to get my first human hair wig.
00:35My hair journey started at the beginning of this year in January when I started chemotherapy.
00:43Last fall I felt a lump in one of my breasts and I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
00:50About a month later after some CT scans we found a spot in my liver and that was
00:56biopsied and was positive so I was diagnosed with stage 4. It's been a bit of an emotional
01:02rollercoaster. There are days I feel really good, there are days that I still can't believe
01:07it's happening, but after finishing chemo and radiation I'm finally feeling like there's
01:13light at the end of the tunnel. I'm excited to get a wig and start living my life again.
01:19Hi, my name is Mona Zagia and I'm the owner of the Wig Fairy Salon in Beverly Hills.
01:23The Wig Fairy is known for transforming wigs. We take a wig from anything as a haircut to color
01:31to repairs. Any of our human hair wigs can be priced from $2,500 to about $3,000 to $4
01:37,000.
01:38The Wig Fairy has a wig gifting program. We raise funds and we're able to donate wigs to
01:44women that are battling hair loss and Jordan was one of our applicants out of many applicants and we
01:50love her story and we're excited to get her her dream hair. Hi Jordan. Hi. Nice to meet you.
01:57I'm Mona. Nice to meet you. Welcome. Thank you. Are you excited? Yes. I'm so excited. Me too. So I'm
02:02going to take off your hat. Okay. I have several wigs that I pulled aside for you. We're going to
02:07go
02:08throughout the colors. Okay. We'll go browns, blondes, all the different shades. Whatever makes you feel
02:13like yourself is the wig that we're going to choose today. Okay. Thank you. Fun? Yes. Sounds good.
02:19During chemo, we did order several wigs off Amazon with various price points from like $50 to $100.
02:27Unfortunately, none of them looked even remotely like my own hair or something that I would be
02:32comfortable wearing out. So we sent them all back. I have just rocked a beanie or a hat ever since.
02:39Okay. Ready? Yes. You haven't had a good human hair wig on. No. Okay. So this is a big deal.
02:44Yeah.
02:48Here we go. So all of the pieces are considered raw pieces. So you're literally just looking at the
02:54hair color and hair length. So how do you like this color? It's very long. I think I'm in shock.
03:01So
03:01because it's so much hair compared to what I've had the last year. The last year. But prior to that,
03:05your hair was pretty long, right? Yes. Do you like the coloring of this or did you want to go
03:09something lighter or darker? Maybe a little bit. I feel like my blonde was a little bit more blonde
03:16than this. Whiter? Yeah. The wigs I tried from Amazon were so not what I was expecting that. I would
03:24love
03:24a wig that looked similar to my natural hair, which was long, blonde, and wavy.
03:30It's like a candy shop here. Yes.
03:35Oh, I like this one. So the blonde on this one got a little bit more golden. Okay. But that
03:40one was a
03:40little bit lighter. And then I found that one in the short one too. Okay. So you could try on
03:45a short
03:45one too. Oh, I like this. So this one has the little lighter pieces in the front. You see that?
03:51Mm-hmm. So it automized gives you the illusion that it's coming out of your scalp. This piece gets cut
03:56off.
03:56Okay. So don't worry about that. That's a mini facelift we include. Okay. So how do you like this one?
04:03I love it. So is this the winner? I think so. Yay! Say yes to the wig. Yay! Yes.
04:13Normally, I customize the cut according to their face shape. So some people think that when you purchase
04:19the wig, it has to be exactly the way it comes. We customize the part exactly to how their natural
04:25hair is. So I'm going to be parting her hair to how her photos are, how her original hair is.
04:32And we
04:32use the infusion powder to camouflage your scalp to give her a more natural look. I will be making
04:38sure she walks out with the perfect cut, perfect hair, perfect style to make her feel like herself again.
04:44Each time I took a shower, as my chemo progressed over the months, more and more hair would come
04:51out. Every time I brushed my hair, I was getting clumps out. And I didn't think it would impact me
04:58emotionally because I knew it was going to happen. And I'm a nurse and I've seen it happen to patients.
05:03But when it happens to you yourself, it's definitely, it was traumatic and it felt like I was losing a
05:11piece
05:15of myself. It looks so good. Do you see it? I love it. Does it feel more like you? Yes.
05:24Yeah? Yes. Look,
05:26and then I saw like you do a whole bunch of things like where you pull your hair up. Yeah.
05:30You could do
05:30stuff like this. Yes. Oh, I'm so excited. I love everything about this new look. I have hair again
05:39for the first time in a year. I love the color. I love the cut. I love how confident I
05:46feel in it. And
05:47I just feel like a new person. I could see you're like slowly touching it. Just be. Yeah. I know,
05:53but I don't want to mess it up. No, you can't mess it up. Have fun with it. A human
05:58hair wig is just like
05:59our own hair. It's just not attached to our head. So you want to always be able to wash it
06:04and keep it
06:04clean. Make sure you're brushing it out every night before you go to sleep. Look at all the volume. I
06:09know. This is nuts. I'm so excited to be able to have hair to play with, to style it, to
06:17have fun
06:18with it the next few days, to be able to have an outfit feel complete again without a hat on.
06:24I'm obsessed.
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