In her trailer, Tiphaine helps women with cancer to feel beautiful despite the disease.
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J. Gicquel / 20 Minutes
In her caravan, Tiphaine travels the roads of Ille-et-Vilaine to offer wigs and other hair accessories to women with cancer.
In patients, hair loss is often experienced as a real trauma.
The wigmaker tries to accompany them in this painful ordeal by helping them to feel beautiful.
Planted on a commercial slab in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande south of Rennes, the caravan immediately attracts the eye of the curious.
It is in this nicely redesigned little cocoon that Tiphaine Arenou helps women regain self-confidence and feel beautiful despite their illness.
The vast majority of his clients have cancer.
In addition to the shock of the announcement, they also have to overcome the loss of their hair due to the chemotherapy sessions.
A terrible ordeal for these women that Tiphaine tries to accompany "with tact and gentleness".
The Tiphaine caravan is set up every Tuesday in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, south of Rennes.
- J. Gicquel / 20 Minutes
In her traveling boutique Chemins Croisés which crisscrosses the roads of Ille-et-Vilaine every week, she offers them all kinds of medical wigs and other hair accessories in order to mask the effects of the treatment.
A hairdresser and wigmaker by training, the young woman pays particular attention to the aesthetics of her hair prostheses, reimbursed by Social Security, which she adapts and retouches to the wishes of her clients.
"It's important that these women feel good wearing their wigs, that they recognize themselves by looking at themselves in the mirror," Tiphaine emphasizes.
"It's violent to see yourself with hair that is not your own"
Touched by cancer, Celine, 35, called on her services a few weeks ago.
“I didn't want to go to a hairdressing salon and expose my illness to others, I wanted to be in an intimate setting,” she says.
And then, before meeting Tiphaine, she discovered not without fear "a lot of very ugly and old-fashioned things" in the models offered to women.
Advised by Tiphaine, she finally opted for a turban leaving fringe protruding.
An accessory with which Céline has now learned to live.
“It is still a trauma because it's quite violent to see yourself with hair that is not your own,” she says.
But wearing something pretty allows you to continue certain habits, such as dressing well or seeing people who are not even aware of some of the disease ”.
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