Correct MnM.  Most of the time it is Ok and I have learned to make the toppers a little longer at the sides for protection and coverage, but it does still become an issue.  I have a new "piece" on order that takes three months to make.  They take a mold of your front part of your head which includes around your ears and once made it is supposed to simulate a hairline.  I am waiting anxiously for it.  I guess you tape it all around your hairline including in front of your ears.  It sort of looks like a flap.  Stay tuned.....................

MnM, I had a topper made specifically to cover the frontal area of my hair line.  I also only found toppers that only provided hair at the crown, that is why I came up with the idea of designing one the followed my pattern of loss.  I had a pattern made for the base, then the topper was made specifically for me.  I have also taken old wigs and cut them into the pattern to cover my loss.  I used to clip in the topper, but now, due to more hair loss, I tape the topper in place.

Two places do it.  I had great success originally with J. Krause, Sandy,  in Skokie and continued to go to them, including this last new custom topper which I am waiting for.  However, I went for another piece and found Hair For You Salon in Arlington Heights as well, see Linda, which will do it too.  I am happy with both places.  They are very different in personality.  J. Krause has been in business for years and years, Sandy runs it, and is the daughter of the original owners.  Linda owns and runs Hair For You, which is a full beauty shop as well as a great resource for anything you might need.  I tried WHI institute too, and found the downtown thing as well as the price, daunting.

So Curly K do you remove the piece every night and re glue the next day?  Does it itch?  I do find the tape "gives" occasionally especially from summer heat, etc.  What kind of glue?  none of my ladies have turned me on to glue.  I did try a "sports" tape with breathing holes in it, but it irritated me and gave me a rash on my scalp/forehead where it sat.  

so is it glued in the front and then clipped in to your hair or glued all over?  If glued all over, then it is glued to your remaining hair?  thanks!

Oh now I understand.  Thanks for sharing.  I am not ready for shaving, I still have enough in back and on the side up towards the crown for a clip in.  I will keep you all posted on the custom piece made from a mold that will give me a hairline and "sideburns"..... waiting anxiously.

BU, I think you will be happy with it too!  It took a few days for me to get the application down- this is what I do, I give my hair a quick shot with the blow dryer first and then shake the powder on the top of my head at the part, along my hairline and above my ears & blend it in along with the roots, then I do a double check with my hand mirror to make sure I got it all the shiny spots & reapply if I missed any, then smooth my hair all out  (it gets a little wild after all the blending) & spritz hairspray lightly at the roots- my hair does look fuller too after using this, haha I am always looking in my rearview mirror now and liking what I see, no more shiny scalp!

Gracie T, it is because of you that I found it, thanks for posting the link :-)

Bu and Minter, I'm glad you found the blog helpful. I'm happy to share a good resource!

Awesome Bu!  I am so happy you are happy with it :-D  

Question for you, I did look at the Joan Rivers Great Hair Day, how do you like it and how do you use it with the BoostnBlend?

Also, just back from my monthly Dermo. visit, got my usual steroid injections along the hairline & eyebrows, this time she diluted it a bit and injected on the top of the scalp also.  I am going to stay with just topicals & steroid injections for the time being as I am having such bad reactions to the minocycline and plaquenil  :-/  

I didn't realize the Joan Rivers came with a brush, yes that would make it easier along the hairline...  I apply bare minerals bronzer powder with a brush along my hairline sometimes, why have I never thought to try BnB using a brush at the difficult to apply hairline/temples area!  Bu, I am so so happy to hear that this is helping you, it is amazing how it works and covers up the shiny areas & I agree, Lauren has awesome info!

Oh! I am surprised .... I got an intralace system seven months ago. Yesterday I went back to have a new hair piece fitted (they call it a natural hairline parting or something)- and I am more than happy.

There sre things you have to get used to, and you learn as you go. So when I first had it fitted, the styling was too heavy around my face. My hair is short and it looked wrong. So I had it re-styled. The colour was also a bit out. You couldn't see that in the salon - I had been there all day more or less, and by the time they finished it was dark. Daylight showed it was slightly wrong, so I called and they could not have been better. I went back the next day and they recoloured, including my own hair.

This time I knew exactly what I wanted, so the styling is right and the colour too. It's great.

It's not cheap, but no one knows the hair is not my own, apart from my family and friends, all of whom I told. I can do anything with it with confidence, including (hooray) go out in the wind. And it is easy to maintain - all I do is follow their instructions and use an argon-based conditioner, avoid excessive use of heat (as in straighteners)and use a correct hairbrush so I don't pull the hair out.

I wss told I would need the hair replacing every four months, but I went seven - and it was okay. Still realistic, which for me is the main thing.

The people at the clinic are great - very friendly and very helpful. And going there makes you realise quite how many women have hair loss.

I can't recommend it enough. As I say, not cheap, but for me, really worth it.

Where are you based? I am in Surrey - if you want to meet up and I can show you, that's fine by me.

Denise

My daughter lives in Brighton if you would like to meet up at some point? I am happy to do so, as I know what it is like, and I know how difficult the decision is.

Denise

Not me - but happy for us all to meet up. Tuesday would suit me I think. You?

Would make more sense to private message, but I don't know how to do it on this site, and haven't time right now to faff! Do you know?

OK. That's fine with me. What about 11.00ish? Coffee somewhere? You suggest.

denise@acumina.co.uk

Outside is fine. Let's email. Sorry to everyone else who has followed this riveting chain!

I've had my eyebrows tattooed by a lady in Richmond, London. I recommend her. She put me completely at ease and I love them x

Hi Liz,

Your eyebrows look fabulous. what a good job.

Liz,

Thanks for sending this photo.

Going for mine December 1st.  A little nervous.  How long before the scabbing fell off?  Also getting my other new custom piece next week.  Stay tuned............

Was it someone called Sarah who did your eyebrows? I was recommended to her, but haven't done anything about it. I had my eyebrows first tatooed about four years ago and they need redoing, but the original person is no longer around.

Hi. Thank you all for your lovely comments about my eyebrows I'm really pleased with them. Sad in Chicago. I've now had them for 4 days. As MnM says they don't scab in the way that other wounds scab. If I look at them now closely I can't really see any scabbing. When I wash them the cotton pad is just a bit brown the same colour as the tattoo.I felt incredibly nervous before I had them done. I put it off for months but I'm due to start a new job so I thought I'd pluck up the courage to get them done and I'm so glad I did. Denise, it was a lady called Sarah who did them. She is based in London. She's a lovely lady who I felt at ease with xx

Thanks everyone for letting me know about your eyebrows.  I am scheduled for Dec. 1  and am also very nervous, but looking forward to not drawing them in everyday!

That's great Liz. I am assuming it was the same one. She works at Lucinda Ellory part time, and got chatting to me - hence considering her. Will go with her now!

When I had my eyebrows done some years ago now (before I realised the extent of my hair loss and though the eyebrows were 'it') I looked, for the first few days, as if I were a pantomime dame. They were so dark and pronounced. But of course once they settled, they weren't like that at all.

Yep - I need them done again, have put it off for a long time, purely because I am so busy. But this has now inspired me. Make an appointment Denise!

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Minter - I got FFA and the lichen on the front of my scalp three years ago after lots of extra medications to help my immune system - that is so funny as I type this - turning 65 had to have those shots for shingles and pneumonia and turned into FFA and lichen - go figure - I only had one big shed - but wanted to let you know that I have dyed my hair the whole time with no ill effects. Hair loss is about an inch all the way around but stopped right after the shed - I am fortunate as my hair covers it and unless I show people they do not notice it.  The lichen is another story - mostly gone but stress and sugar - which we all like when we are stressed - seems to flare it up occasionally - just right in the front and affects maybe three rows of hair.  Makes the base of the hair look slightly swollen but so much less than it was in the beginning.  I have no itching either.  I also have had a huge reduction in the tinitis that I had on the same side that they gave me the shots - and yes that sounds crazy as well.  I do not use sunblock unless going to be in the sun for a long time and then only zinc based.  I have continued the mineral makeup but am still a little conflicted about that.  I am saddened as I wish I knew what has stopped mine as I would definitely pass that along.

Hi Joy,

I think mine is at least an inch all the way around too-  so far my eyebrows are thin, but still able to fake it!  I also have been using boostnblend on my brows, that is much better then regular brow powder :-)  I actually got my hair colored a shade darker then earlier, it looks more fuller then when it was a lighter shade, oddly enough-I still use sunblock, I would rather have a bald head then risk skin cancer :-/ also Dr Christos Tziotzios from Guys hospital in London (see the thread above) states that sunblock has nothing to do with this-