Stylist Helps Treat Hair Loss with Donated Wigs, Regrowth at Northwest Metro Salons
Ashley Romero loves to talk about her hair. She’s happy to show off her curls, the nearly-shoulder-length brown locks that she couldn’t enjoy even just two years ago.
“You can just see how full it’s gotten and how, and when I pull it back in a pony tail you can’t see all that baldness that you saw before,” said Romero with a handful of her dark-brown hair and a huge smile on her face.
The mother of two went through a series of health crises, including battles with two auto-immune disorders and liver failure, that put her on medication she’ll need to take the rest of her life (she has to take anti-rejection medication for her new liver, among other prescriptions) that leave her hair thinning or falling out.
“You’re already feeling worn down and sick and then just to not feel your best on top of it, and going out in the world and to have people feel like they’re staring at you, it does get really hard,” said Romero.
A friend introduced Romero to Lequilla Cartharn, whose business, Greater Grace Hair Solutions, seeks to help those who are losing or have thinning hair–or want to know more about how to take care of their hair or the hair of loved ones.
“I suffer with low iron, which is the reason why I got into it, is because I suffer with hair loss myself,” said Cartharn. “My hair just started really thinning, and I just wanted to really educate myself to help with my needs.”
In this photo contributed by Ashley Romero, she is seen wearing one of the wigs she used while undergoing treatment for a variety of illnesses. The medication caused her hair to fall out. She’s now able to regrow her own hair thanks to Greater Grace Hair Solutions.
Custom wigs and hair loss treatments
Cartharn offers medical wigs that she helps refurbish and offers treatments to the scalps of her clients, who, for whatever reason, are losing their hair.
“A lot of people don’t understand the ‘why.’ We get down to the root of the problem and not just giving you the treatment or a product and see what the end is going to be,” she said. “We get down to the why.”
She also offers tips and how-to guides for parents who have foster or adoptive children that may have hair that is different from their own.
“We try to fit everyone’s needs specifically for that child, so you know how to style,” she said. “Simple solutions. We try to offer five simple hairstyles.”
All of it is to achieve the goal of her clients feeling good about their hair, so they can focus on what they’d rather focus on, like life, family, or business.
“It would just help me feel better. When I would go to work, I would feel more presentable, I would feel better. I wouldn’t cry as much coming home from a night with my friends,” said Romero. “It was one less thing in my life that I had to be so concerned about because she helped me through it.”
Cartharn sees her clients at various salons, including Park Salon in Brooklyn Park.
She’s also receiving donated wigs through the Crystal-New Hope-Robbinsdale Rotary Club.
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