"My Life with Alopecia"

"27 piece Quickweave"

My hair loss journey started when I was 16yrs. old which was a horrible experience for me in the beginning stages. The trait of male pattern baldness in the top of my head is exactly what it looked like.No one ever directly said anytihing to me in school about my wigs and weaves. As far as hanging with the cool kids back then I knew them and some of them hung out with me. I had to start learning quickly how to add hair to my head by sewing it in, then once I found out that I could glue it in I began to do that. I didn't know from the beginning what the condition was called. I lived with my grandmonther who at the time was in her late sixties and couldn't explain it to me either. As this was new to my family and myself my condition, I went to school and asked some of my friends at the time what they thought it was and they couldn't tell me. I just got more and more aggravated with the thought of losing all of my hair one day. I got depressed, didn't want to talk to anyone at times wanted to just crawl in a hole sometimes because I couldn't afford hair or wigs all of the time even thou I had a part-time job @ Wendy's back then in 1983. It's like going to bed and getting up bald one day and staring horribly in the mirror crying.Eventually I got to a dermatologist who determined that it was Alopecia. Once I got my married my husband at the time didn't think anything was wrong with it because he married me for not my hair because as he so delicately put I am not my hair. At the age of 43yrs old now, I sometimes get so tired of buying wigs, weaves, glue. It's tiring to do my hair, I've only been to a beauty salon 4 times in my life. So once I got passed the shame of it all and the embarrassement, I decided to wear my beautiful bald head as you can see on some photos below at times when it is warm out. The frustration gets to you at times no need to lie we are human. Please share your stories and photos with me.