Featured Blog Posts – October 2012 Archive (23)

Goodbye, yellow blonde hair

"You should just cut the rest of your long hair off. It'll be different, but you'll get used to it."

This is what my nine year old son told me this morning, and there is wisdom in his words. The remaining long strands serve little purpose (except to be pulled back to do the pony tail and ball cap thing on the weekends as a welcome break from Harriet the Wig), and now look just as ugly as my bald patches next to the regrowth that's anywhere between 1/4 - 3 inches in length. I am…

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Added by Tracey on October 4, 2012 at 5:00pm — 8 Comments

Alopecia hereditary?

Hi I have alopecia areata universalis. I got it suddenly at the age of 28. I went from having a full head of thick long hair to nothing in about 3 weeks. I also lost my eyebrows, eyelashes etc over the next few months. I don't remember ever having any bald patches growing up, but I did have very thick hair. Finally to my question, this morning I was blow drying my 10 year old's hair (since she is 10, she does her hair most of the time) and I found a round bald spot on the back of her head…

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Added by Alicia Mengel on October 4, 2012 at 3:45pm — 4 Comments

To pluck or not to pluck

I have not posted in awhile, which I think in some ways is a good things as it means I have not been troubled by anything alopeica related. Until now...

Now I don't know if anyone will see this but worth a try... but my issue is I have started to get a slight bit of regrowth on just one eyebrow in the corner nearest to my nose..

Now I am actually starting to get weary of this as currently I do not draw my eyebrows on or anything, no one ever says anything so I just get on with it.…

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Added by KFlame on October 4, 2012 at 4:30am — 5 Comments

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