Stylists and Clients are Learning About a Way to Prevent Hair Loss During Chemotherapy

She has been your client for years. You remember when her son starred in the first grade play and now—how time flies—this same young man just graduated from college. She’s a client and also a friend—it’s a relationship built over years of conversations in your chair. And then you get the gut-wrenching call. The diagnosis was positive, chemo has been prescribed and she is asking you to shave her head and find a wig.

It’s the worst moment in any stylist-client relationship,…