Hairdresser's nose collapses due to hair inhalation

Every job has it risks - I get RSI in my thumb! - but I bet you never thought that your nose collapsing was a potential outcome of being a hairdresser.

That's what happened to hairdresser Edwina Phillipson from Northumberland, who developed a hole in her nose due to 35 years of breathing in hair and skin clippings and all the products that are brought in on clients' hair.

The problem got so bad that she ended up with a hole right through her septum that had to be rebuilt using cartilage from her ear.

Edwina - who has shared her story with the Mail as a warning to other hairdressers - now wears a mask to cut hair. Happily, Edwina is now on the mend after enduring a painful op and says that clients aren't put off by her mask.