A celebrity hairdresser is to visit Dundee to deliver a seminar on cutting wigs for people with conditions such as cancer.
Trevor Sorbie will coach staff from salons across the city on Monday at Forte Beauty Clinic in Broughty Ferry, where he will also teach communication skills for helping clients with medical hair loss.
The workshop is the first of its kind to be delivered anywhere in Scotland, according to Forte’s owner Catherine Myles.
It will be delivered through Trevor’s charity mynewhair, which provides advice for people with medical hair loss.
She said: “We’ve got local hairdressers from all over the city coming to take part in this course.
“It normally runs in London and it’s the first time it’s coming to Scotland.
“My sister teaches palliative care and her colleague knows someone in the mynewhair charity, so this is how I got involved.
“The aim is to put together a list of local hairdressers who are trained in wig cutting and in working with people with medical hair loss.
“The communication element of the course will be run by Macmillan nurses and will help hairdressers to understand the client’s fears and expectations.
“Our hair is such a personal thing, most of us are very fussy about it. A lot of the time people with hair loss are given a wig and they don’t know what to do with it.
“So it would help to go to a salon where the staff have an understanding of what they’re going through.”
Around 10 representatives from salons including Forte, Partners, Blades and Freedom, as well as delegates from the Dundee and Angus College hairdressing course, are expected to take part.
Trevor said he was keen to help people in the region.
“I am delighted with this new opportunity to develop our network in Scotland,” he said. “We are going to be helping so many more people in the Dundee area.
“It is so important that we take every opportunity to help people at a time when they most need it.
“mynewhair is not just about hair. It is psychological medicine for everyone suffering from hair loss through illness it is the missing link in their treatment.”