Comments on: Women & Hair Transplants | Watch – Be Informed https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-transplant/women-hair-transplant-be-informed/ A Community For Women Dealing With Hair Loss - Help, Hope and Understanding Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 By: Y https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-transplant/women-hair-transplant-be-informed/#comment-2491850 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:12:29 +0000 https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/?p=2384#comment-2491850 In reply to JoAnn.

Hi JoAnn –

You know, I honestly don’t think – still to this day my family really truly gets the impact hair loss has had on me or understands the magnitude of destruction and the toll it took on my life. Even knowing I wear wigs and created The Women’s Hair Loss Project.

I still believe they don’t get it fully.

I’ve come to accept that and realize you can’t force anyone to “get it.”

I think your father probably meant well, but yes, that hurts and I completely understand how and why.

I am glad you did your own research and realized there are differences between androgenetic alopecia in men and androgenic alopecia in women. Education is so important for women to be able to make informed decisions because this is quite a predatory industry, as is any industry focusing on selling products or services that target our pain and insecurities.

XOXO
~Y

]]> By: JoAnn https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/hair-transplant/women-hair-transplant-be-informed/#comment-2491840 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:20:36 +0000 https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/?p=2384#comment-2491840 What you say here completely rings in accordance with my thoughts and feelings about hair transplantation for women. My father once suggested that I try one of those transplant services he had seen in TV, unintentionally denting the pretty feeling my wig gave me that day. I don’t blame him for the sting, he just didn’t understand the difference between my hair loss and that of the women in those ads. Just as he didn’t quite grasp that his male pattern baldness and my female pattern baldness do not attack the follicles in the same way, even though we both have androgenetic alopecia.

Do these hair transplant companies knowingly target women even if their product can’t help most women with hair loss? I believe they do. They also stand to make a lot of money every time one of those ads secures a new client for them. So what’s the harm, right? In my opinion, the harm is selling hope where there is none to be found. Especially for women, who are constantly told how essential hair is to their sense of beauty and even their value in society.

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