RBY AMY KILGORE MANGUS ! PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALLISON POTTER the world according to It was an emotional Saturday at Bangz. Beth Quinn, 55, cried knowing this moment was the start of a long journey. When Beth, a banker at First Citizens Bank, was first diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer in December 2013, she knew chemotherapy treatments could cause hair loss. Chemotherapy attacks quick-growing cancer cells and because hair follicles also multiply rapidly, they too can be destroyed. Chemotherapy drugs can’t tell the difference. Beth didn’t want to wake up to the trauma of finding all of her hair on her pillow. When told that she may lose her hair after the second chemotherapy treatment, she called 30 WBM april 2014 Linwood Gainey and Frank Potter at Bangz Salon and Day Spa and told them she wanted her hair shortened and thinned. One of Beth’s three daughters, Brittany, 28, thought it would be a nice gesture and sign of solidarity if she and her sisters also cut their hair. Bethany, 30, and Aimee, 25, agreed. Brittany and Amy donated their hair to help make wigs for other cancer patients. Beth says, “It’s fun … seeing my girls enjoying themselves. Seeing the love and support they showed me is priceless.” “Brittany’s hair is so short. … With earrings she looks like Anne Hathaway, but without, she looks like Justin Bieber,” Beth says with a laugh. When Beth pulled out her wallet to pay, Frank and Linwood wouldn’t accept her money. They happily absorbed the expense. “Everyone at Bangz was so kind and amazing,” she says. Beth found wig shopping very odd, but friend and cancer survivor Mary Barto took charge at Sheila’s Wigs where Beth found one that looks almost like her real hair. She’ll wear it in public, but at home she’ll be “Miss Naturale,” she says. Bethany sums it up Beth’s daughter, Brittany, started best: “It’s just hair; it Ra blog for Beth’s friends and family will grow back. We to follow her progress. did it so she knows The World According to Queen B she’s not in this can be found at alone.” www.bq2014.blogspot.com QUEEN B BEFORE: Beth Quinn and her daughters, from left, Bethany Etheridge, Brittany Fountain and Aimee Etheridge. Beth Quinn had her hair shortened and styled by Angela Taylor.
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