My name is Sophia and in January 2019 I was diagnosed with Stage II Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I felt a tsunami of emotions as my life as a busy 19 year old student had been ripped away from me. Yet, one of the hardest things to come to terms with was the effect that the treatment would have on my image, especially the loss of my hair.

 

At that time, I thought that beauty could only be found in a thin figure with long flowing hair and thick eye lashes. This thought depressed me as my treatment progressed and  I kept finding hair everywhere and my jeans stopped fitting. I dabbled in wigs but couldn’t seem to find the right one and just kept thinking: ‘They know I’m wearing a wig’. Then I thought that headscarves took too much faffing about and that my head looked strange.

 

My mother, Josephine, is an extremely talented interior designer and noticed that the reason why the headscarves looked odd was because they didn’t have any padding in them where hair would have been giving it shape. So, with the help of my equally talented sister Hannah, we designed the first headscarf that had padding, was easy to put on and looked stylish. A Bald Move.