For many overweight women, the idea of trip to a High Street hair salon is enough to have them running for the hills.
The average salon is a minefield for the big-boned. The gowns are too small, the mirrors are endless - and there's a very real danger of getting wedged in either chair or sink. That's not to mention the appraising stares from fellow customers - almost always thinner than you.
The list goes on and on - but now, for many women, that trauma can end as a hairdresser catering solely for fat people has opened its doors.
Trim Bashar Brown, 31, opened his business after learning overweight clients felt discriminated against in salons full of slim women.
Bashar, from Rainham, Kent, spent £5,000 making sure his salon is fat friendly - complete with an extra-large seat, roomier gowns, and even wide-neck basins for washing hair.
For now he is running the Hair By Bashar out of his home, but plans to expand as he already has more than 50 clients after just a few months in business.
Bashar said: 'I've been a hairdresser for years. Increasingly, larger women were telling me how they hate going to the salon because they are filled with slim, glamorous women.
'For them, it feels the same as walking into a gym full of ultra-fit people. They feel like everyone is staring at them.
'I just thought - 'this isn't right!' and decided to set up a salon where overweight people would feel comfortable.
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