Rachel Pierce: Helps Women Look Good and Feel Better

Rachel Pierce started Wig-Out, a company that helps women who are losing their hair or have lost their hair during chemotherapy find wigs that suit their style. As someone with close family members who have battled cancer, Rachel knows you need to keep your mind and body strong to help deal with the disease, and feeling good about how you look is important in the process. Part of the reason for creating a business was so that she could better market and promote what she is doing, but her original impetus was "so that everyone could know there is someone out here to care for them and listen." The first person she helped fit for a wig was a former boss who lost all her hair after chemo treatments. She got her friend into a program called "Look Good, Feel Better," with help from the Empire Beauty school where she has attended classes. Look Good, Feel Better is "a non-medical, brand-neutral public service program that teaches beauty techniques to cancer patients to help them manage the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment." "Thousands of volunteer beauty professionals support Look Good…Feel Better. All are trained and certified by the Personal Care Products Council Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Professional Beauty Association | National Cosmetology Association at local, statewide, and national workshops. Other volunteer health care professionals and individuals, like Rachel also give their time to the program." Rachel is just starting out. In January of this year she made her first order and has already helped a few women figure out which wigs looks best and work best for their lifestyle. She is only 19 years old, but she believes she may have already found her passion and her calling. Combining her talent as a hair stylist and her compassion as an individual, she wants to grow her business while she helps cancer survivors "look good and feel better" on their road to recovery.