WHEN Emma Morvall decided to get a haircut, she made a selfless choice to give a cancer patient a precious gift.Ms Morvall's long, thick, blonde hair used to brush the base of her spine when loose and she pulled it up into a ponytail when at work as a shearer.Yesterday, Ms Morvall had her 30cm ponytail chopped off to be donated to wig makers Louis Barnett & Sons, who will make the hair into a wig and donate it to a cancer patient."I've got a young baby and I got sick of him pulling it," she said."I thought, if I'm gonna get a hair cut I may as well donate it."Absolute Indulgence beautician Heide Clarke said it was the first time the salon had done anything like it."She approached me and was looking at either selling the hair and donating the money to charity or donating her hair to the company who will then make a wig," she said.Ms Morvall and her family have been touched by cancer in the past few years."My aunty had cancer and we found wigs were quite expensive," she said.Her husband was also very supportive."He'll still love me (with short hair)," she said."His father died of cancer and his sister had cancer too."