Walk into most wig shops and you’ll find rows of ready-to-wear pieces, all cut to a single standard size. For Terry Halone, a barber since 1965 and the man behind Pink Ribbon Fitting Solutions in Rib Mountain, Wisconsin, that standard has never been good enough. He measures each client’s head like a seamstress taking measurements for a gown, then pulls the wig apart and reconstructs it until it fits the person wearing it. His reasoning is simple: just like your fingerprints, your head size and shape is yours.
That attention to detail draws clients from Minnesota, Upper Michigan, and communities across Wisconsin, many making three-to-four-hour drives for a fitting. Among them is Angie Borth, a triple-negative ductal carcinoma survivor diagnosed in April 2024, who said losing her hair during treatment was traumatic and felt like losing part of her identity. She now keeps Halone saved in her phone as “the hair angel.” Beyond cancer patients, Halone serves people experiencing hair loss from COVID, trichotillomania, alopecia areata, alopecia universalis, and lichen planopilaris.
What sets Halone apart isn’t just the craftsmanship, it’s the follow-through. He teaches clients how to care for their wigs and encourages them to come back whenever an adjustment is needed, treating the relationship as ongoing rather than a one-time sale. For anyone on the Suncoast who has walked alongside a loved one through cancer treatment, that kind of steady support is easy to recognize and hard to forget.
Have you or someone you know navigated hair loss during treatment? What made the difference for you?
