Wigging Out

Yesterday was my big wig consultation. Not big wig as in “hotshot” or “Ms. Important” but as in hair replacement, get-a-wig, consultation. Let me tell you something, there are some folks out there that have turned cancer into a huge racket. I found out how huge yesterday.

The hair salon I went to specializes in helping cancer patients with hair prosthetics which is why I chose to visit them. They were very, very nice to me over the phone and once I arrived. I thought, “Wow, great customer service! How unusual!”

The consultant took me to a private room where we had a discussion about my illness and what I was looking for in terms of hairstyle. Then he told me the starting price for their wigs: $1,200! I felt a little vomit in my mouth. He must have seen me turn pale because he proceeded to tell me that for cancer patients they start at $800.

Oh, what a bargain!!!

I stood up to leave and told him the wigs were completely out of my price range and the prices were completely ridiculous. That’s when he told me those were the prices for human hair wigs. WTF? The synthetic wigs started at $250 and ranged to $800. He proceed to shove a bunch of catalogs in my hands and expected me to choose a wig from a catalog.

Well, it’s a good thing I did my wig homework prior to the consultation because the wigs in the catalog were the same exact wigs I saw on Wigs.com except the salon was charging three times the price!!! So basically I would have to choose my wig from the salon’s catalog and pay $650 instead of $175 at Wigs.com.

What a waste of time.

When I got home I went through the website again and asked for Cam’s and Teenie’s opinion on what wig I should get. Cam could of cared less. Teenie was very particular because she’s very upset that I’m going to lose my hair. She wants it to look very much like what it looks like now…cut and color.

So, Teenie and I chose this wig with this color:

Pretty darn close to what I have now! And it only cost me $178!

I know that most of you voted for long hair and even Dude would like me to have long hair as well so when we come back from our trip I might order a longer wig if there is some leftover spending money.

So what do you think? The wig’s name is “Fiesty”…is that apropos or what?

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