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Hairdresser shocked by her friend's experience of buying a wig sets out to transform the process for other breast cancer survivors

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A hairdresser launched a charity to provide people with free and stylish wigs after seeing her friends "truly awful" wig buying experience while dealing with breast cancer.

Salon owner and stylist Melissa Menga, 36, went to a specialist wig shop with her friend and mum-of-two, Leanne Priestley, 33, last autumn, following her double mastectomy after finding two lumps in her left breast.

But Melissa was left shocked by the lack of choice and personal care provided so she and a colleague at the salon near her home in Bury have since hand-made Leanne a wig that she wears every day.

Melissa, a single mum to Leon, 16, and Laila, 12, said: “The experience of getting a wig for Leanne was truly awful. "The space was a tiny warehouse on an industrial estate.

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