I'm 71. In a few years I'll be bald half my life. I don't even think about it growing back. Most of my friends decided to stop colouring their hair when Co19 hit. Sometimes I feel I'm missing out on a rite of passage.

20 years ago I bought my first Freedom wig and I was in raptures. The hair was absolutely beautiful with great movement and the fit was awesome. I did everything in it, but unfortunately I worked outside most of the day in the heat and after two years I decided it was just too hot to keep wearing it. So I put it away only bringing it out on rare occasions which I switched to lace wigs, then to thin skin wigs which became my favourite because it stayed on without glue or tape much like the…

Well, what can I say? I hang my head about my shameful, childish behaviour today. What a tantrum I had. Even threw my wig over the balcony into the garden 2 floors below. The reason? I have washed it 3 times in the last week trying to get it not to bunch up in the back. I don't know why it is doing this, it rarely happens. It is a remy hair wig and usually I don't have this problem. I am over it!

Since I lost (and found) my virgin Freedom hair wig I have felt so insecure about myself.…

I was asked a question by a friend of mine who has her own over 50s blog. Her last blog was about women's hair going grey and her next blog will be about women losing their hair. Until she met me she'd never heard of alopecia. I too had never heard of it before I got it. Then I read somewhere that there are more people with alopecia than there are people with red hair. To me that was amazing.

I would love to hear others thoughts about why alopecia isn't well known. Is it because most…

Hi all, well a bald woman sat down with her daughter at the next table in a cafe this week and I went over and asked if she had alopecia...no she didn't, she had been treated for breast cancer. I always find when I do this the person has cancer! Anyway I explained that I thought she had alopecia as I did and she said oh my hair will grow back soon. I said fantastic, I've been bald for over 20 years and wigs don't bother me anymore. Her eyes opened wide. We chatted some more and she's tossing…

So a couple of women came along as visitors to my Toastmaster's meeting the second time in a row. At this meeting I was wearing a new wig and both of them commented on my new look...actually the style is pretty much the style I always wear but the colour was much darker...so I said matter of factly that I was wearing my new wig and explained I had alopecia. They both said they would never know it was a wig and that if I didn't tell anyone no one would know. Just then the meeting was called…

So I'm having lunch with a few of my girlfriends sharing little anecdotes about our lives, as you do, when one starts to tell what happened at work. Now she's a nurse in an aged care facility and one old gentleman who has dementia has started doing strange things like peeing in corners of the room etc and he happens to wear a toupee. The toupee is getting more and more ragged looking and the nurses had been plotting on how to take it off him as he's pretty attached to it [no pun intended].…