The team at Affinity for Hair in Bega have been busy raising money for innovative brain cancer research.
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Co-owner Gail Sargent lost her mother to brain cancer last year, and said the disease is one of the lowest funded cancers in Australia.
"People's survival rates have only increased by one per cent in 30 years," she said.
"Our clients have been really good, and people have been walking in to donate."
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1439 Australians were killed by the disease in 2016.
Dressed as angels, the team have been walking the streets, selling cakes and have even organised a raffle, with all funds going to the Charlie Teo Foundation. They will be collecting donations until the end of March.
Fellow co-owner Megan Filmer said the foundation has given "people who have no hope a chance".
"It is a very important cause because it touches a lot of people," she said.
Last year the federal government announced the Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology Oncology Group and Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology will each receive $2.5million to "improve access, and raise participation in" local and international brain cancer treatment trials.
