walkabout123 said:
From what I've read, it is acceptable for Muslims to wear wigs if their hair loss is for medical reasons, and the wig is not made of human hair or "impure" synthetic materials such as pig hair (please correct me if I'm wrong). A short capless wig would probably be cooler than swathing her head in 4 feet of thick fabric hijabs.
Have-worked-with-cancer-patients-in-the-past-sperg:
A common misconception is that a wig is light and airy. This is only true for the synthetic fibres.
Agree, that's why I suggested it for Chantal. Muslims are not permitted to wear human hair wigs. If the hair loss is due to medical reasons, e.g., alopecia, chemotherapy, burns, etc., they are usually permitted to wear synthetic wigs made of artificial fibers, but not animal hair. Perhaps you misread my post, and thought I was suggesting a human hair wig for Chantal. I wasn't. My apologies if my post was unclear.
I have also worked with cancer patients, and I agree that donated hair is often not usable for wigs for a variety of reasons -- the hair is too short, is chemically damaged, has too many split ends, is tangled, has an unnatural color, or was not completely dry when it was shipped and is now moldy. In those cases, it simply gets discarded.
But this is a bit off-topic because to my knowledge Chantal has never bought an expensive human hair wig, only cheap synthetics. Now that she is supposedly Muslim, she can still wear synthetic wigs, but I doubt that she will. She'll continue to wrap her head and body in tight, heavy, sweat-inducing fabric even when it's 115F/46C degrees outside, comfort and health be damned. smh
