Is it comfortable to wear a Follea wig or topette? I wear a skullcap for sports and a cotton alopecia cap at work all day, and still adjusting to having something on my head, as I lost half my hair in a year so its been sudden. I am blessed with a husband who doesn’t care if I have hair or not, so I try to remember that I am blessed!

@ DJ – I’m glad the videos help, I’m that way too, very much a visual person also. I live in Los Angeles and the weather is pretty warm, but I’m indoors all day in the air conditioning so I don’t know how I would be if I was having to be all day in the heat with my wig. I haven’ experienced that yet. Based on your description of your hair I’m thinking it wouldn’t be too hard to find a color match. I have an overall thinning on my hair, no bald spots per se, just crappy ol’ androgenetic alopecia.

@phillygrl – I’m glad that you are finding the videos helpful too! I know what I would have liked to have seen when I was trying to muster up the courage to wear hair and learn more about it, so I’m “trying” to provide some of that. I do still take the Aldactone and the Orthotricylen unfortunately, and that is actually a post I want to write – dealing with my concerns in getting of the meds and my plan of action to do so.

@Beth – I think it’s just good to know we have “options” Lots of gals love doing the bonded thing and it works well for them, I just could take that step, I feel lucky that I was able to smack myself into acceptance of wearing wigs and realizing there is nothing wrong with, I feel good about it now. I know all about being paralyzed to make a move or decision to do something towards wearing hair. I’m excited for you that you want to look into some wigs yourself! Let me know how things go!

@Kyle – It takes time and I think we need to be patient with ourselves. I know I’ve been very hard on myself over the years about not acting sooner on my behalf to try and help myself not feel like such crap all the time. But it wasn’t the right time then, everything happens in it’s own time, but sometimes we have to give ourselves that extra nudge (or kick in the ass) out the door or to pick up a phone. I’ve been to the depths of hair loss hell, unable to function in life, glued to the couch or under the covers… I never thought I could be okay with wearing a wig and be where I am today with my acceptance of it. I’m glad I got over myself and my worries and concerns that “It’s not MY hair” Well ya know what “F My hair” my hair sucks, I gave it to much undeserved admiration for far too long LOL – Yes it was great in all the years prior to 21, but I like to talk to MY hair and use the words of Janet Jackson and say “What have you done for me lately?” nada zip zero zilch. Just a fluffy frizzy thin follicular mess. The wigs do far more for me than MY hair.

@Suki – Oh Yay! Please let us know how your appointment at Follea goes tomorrow! I’m so excited for you. Vicka & Geena are awesome! It’s located in a really nice area with a lot of restaurants, the chinese food place that’s practically next door is sooooooo good! I’m still thinking about the food from there. There is hope for all of us, yes, yes yes indeed.

XOXO

Thank you again. This was truly inspiring!

As far as the Dr.s go, in Dec. my PCP said “oh it’s stress from going through things with the FIL & the kids and my Mom having a minor surgery. Jan. went to the Derm. This is a Derm that our pediatrian, PCP, and my gyno go to–well respected. But, he said it wasn’t needed to do anything more than TSH and I just had that done month prior & it was ok. Said to try rogaine was probably AGA. Went back to him in May and looked and said since FIL just passed probably stress with some patches SD and follicles seemed to look ok. So, I went to the gyno in June for the yearly and she said “well we are just gonna have it all checked out and if it’s fine then that’s great. If not then we know what to face. So, TSH had actually gone up since Dec but at a 1 so that’s good. T3, Total T3, T4, Total T4, antibody, uptakes etc…all well within normal ranges. It took a gyno to do what I needed…not a Derm and not the PCP to be sympathetic…go figure!! I’m seriously thinking of seeing a naturopath. I would be seeing 100 dermatologists if I could till I got 2 DX the same. But my insurance only pays for 6 Dr visits per yr. I have new hairgrowth in front where bangs would be. See now sprouts on top.

I have an acceptable amount of hair on the left. I part my hair on the left and it is all the same length –no bangs and dk brown, single process(so should be easy to find a matchy wig.) I just lose most of the hair on the top (basically eyebrow circumerance around the head.) No matter how I part my hair, it’s all the same wide part/scalp look. Don’t have bald spots just thinning. I can just run my fingers loosely throught the sides and will have up to 10 hairs in my fingers with the little white balls.knubs on the end (is that TE?) I loose more hair on the right side.

My only dread of wearing a wig is being in Oklahoma, it is HOT and HUMID!!

Who knows but thanks again for what you do for us. You are so beautiful and so glad you feel comfortable enough to share your journey with us.

DJ

I don’t clip up my hair and I don’t wear a wig cap, I find both to be unnecessary for how I’m wearing my hair because my wig is VERY close in color and I don’t have a lot of natural hair on my own, it’s very thin so it does’t really add any bulk.. finally having thin hair paid off for something.. shessh. My hair is just about the same exact length as Natalia, in fact I will have to get a trim in the next couple months to keep it at that length, I don’t want it going past it too much because then my hair might be more obvious. As long as you are choosing a wig in similar color and length at least not a wig shorter than your hair, I don’t think you’d have to worry about putting your hair up underneath it. My hair is more obvious to the eye under my long wig because it almost seems like a reverse layer under there LOL, but the again since the color is such a close match and since I don’t have a ton of my own hair it works fine.

I had actually done another clip the same day I made that video above, trying to show where my hair was in relation to my wig – length wise and then I forgot to put it in, by the time I remembered the video was already upload. So I just slapped it together right now and I’m embedding it here for you.

So long story short… LOL when you pulled the wig back to show how your parts match up, YOUR hair blends so nicely. That is what I want mine to do. You wear the wigrip…but do you just wear your hair down under it and is your hair shorter than your Natalia? I’m just gathering info for myself because I know what I would like to do for myself…I want to buy the wigrip because it seems like the most logical and smart solution. I don’t want to have to pin up or put a cap on my hair. But my hair is a little longer than a chin length bob and just wondering if I have to cut it shorter.

Thank you for all you do!! 🙂

DJ