Masked & Bald Liberation

I still wear face masks in public, & I frequently don't wear my wig while wearing a mask & sunglasses. It's been very liberating to me to be an "anonymous bald chick" in the grocery store, & etc. 

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl, Co-founder on June 27, 2022 at 12:14am

I actually love that - "the anonymous bald chick".  I find that since COVID I have had a lot of women stop me and ask me about going out in public bald.  I wonder if that has to do with the fact that during COVID so many did not wear their wigs while working from home and actually struggled with having to put it back on again.

Permalink Reply by Peace to you on June 27, 2022 at 9:49am

I know that was me, too, wearing it (and makeup) less often. (I also developed a scalp skin infection from a weighted eye mask I wore to sleep - the mask buckle was pressing too hard on the back of my scalp - I had to put on various ointments to heal it and stop wearing my wig.) During that time, I told my neighbor about my alopecia and then I started taking neighborhood walks without the wig. Eventually my "wiglessness" progressed to other places - bald freedom. I do still wear the wig in certain contexts, but it's much less frequent. 

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