Its crazy how losing my hair never crossed my mind before and now is only thing on my mind now. I think other People think its a VAIN worry. Thats because their not going through it.Your hair is apart of you and its a hard thing to lose, especially for women!Its part of our femininity. Its what you and your girlfriends do at sleep overs, its what you let your nieces play with when they want to give you a make-over.

I just dont think people see the…

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Hello, my name is Trisha im 21 and have recentely been diagnosed with AA. This is the most current picture. I first noticed a spot a in april that was a quater of this size. Its been very difficult for me considering i do not have health insurance AND my hair was my favorite physical feature about myself. Any words of wisdom would be great, advice, stories. Also, my biggest question is......Will i lose all my hair? does AA always spread? how long would it usually take for all to fall out...?…

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I am 14 and i have alopecia areata, my real hair is very thin now and i have to wear a wig...i have told everyone at school that its just a few extensions. I am worried they will find out, say if i went to a sleepover or something. so do i tell them or not? and if i do then how?! please help me, thankyou xx

I was at the mall last night looking for some MAC lip glass and I noticed a bald model on the Fashion Fair billboard. Of course I was delighted to see a bald woman. The clerk told me the woman was discovered sitting in Starbucks and offered to model for Fashion Fair. I could not hold back my 2 part emotion; beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but also being in the right place at the right time.

Here is the link for you to see this beautiful model…

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Hi...haven't been on here in forever. Hope everyone is doing well, I posted some pics to show you that you can have fun doing any hair style these days!! I started losing my hair when I was pregnant with my son 18 years ago, well I don't know if this lovely auto immune disorder figured I had enough fun for my lifetime or what? But I now have eyebrows, all my eyelashes are back, and now I'm going to stop shaving my head since it looks now like a full head of stubble coming in. Anyway...so weird,… Continue

March 2012

I am now head shaved and getting permanent make-up. I have also noticed I now lack arm and leg hair - so there are a few perks to alopecia universalis i guess

I decided that if I was going to get brave and try to go wigless and scarfless then vacation in the Caribbean was a good place to try it out. I still wore my wig to dinner every night…

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So here is the rest of my story

The last picture in Part 1 of this story was October 2011. I had MUCH thinner hair but people still didn't really notice unless I moved my upper layers of hair showed them my bald patches. I still had all of my facial hair. As a woman I never thought I would be happy about that! Haha - now that I have none I would be so happy just to get back there!

November 2011 - this is the month I decided to look into a wig until I got it I decided I better…

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I am not a regular blogger. In fact, I have never blogged about anything. When I started losing my hair I looked to other people's stories for comfort, guidance and to help prepare me for what was still yet to come. I wanted to see real pictures - not text book pics. I write this so maybe someone like me can get the information I was looking for. Some of the pictures will not be pretty but I always try to remember it could be so much worse.

May 2008 - "pre" alopecia…

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Take a look at this article about a woman with a rare medical condition that only two people in the world are known to have. Once dubbed "The World's Ugliest Woman", she has risen above her challenges and has become a motivational speaker and author. I think this story has a lot of relevance for those of us who feel like freaks due to our hair loss, particularly if we're bald in public.…

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To help spread awareness this month, I had my work post a little about me and Alopecia on their Facebook page..please visit West Valley Pet Clinic on Facebook and like their page for supporting Alopecia Awareness Months :)

Its amazing how one simple act can alter ones perceptions of everything. And who would have thought that such a act would have such an impact on someone like me. I remember distinctly how I felt before sept 3 2010. It was my greatest fear. Thinking back to 2 years ago, I can still feel that overwhelming fear. 2 years ago I was facing my second bout of actually being bald. I was once bald as a 8 year child. And it was the worse thing that I endured. I suffered from bullyings, thinking that…

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At work (I work @ Walmart) today a customer asks to borrow a pen and a piece of paper. He writes down a youtube channel about how baking soda/powder (can't remember which, lol) cures cancer. Then a co-worker tells me a customer pulled her aside to ask "Is she sick? Is she OK? Is it contagious?" Just frustrating. Almost makes me forget the couple customers I've had tell me I'm beautiful &/or am rocking the bald look, lol or that they wish they had my courage or had done it sooner (gone…

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Mailonline.com, had an interesting article about twin, in which one had alopecia and the other did not. Below is an excerpt:

“As girls, they insisted on matching outfits, right down to the ribbons in their blonde pigtails. And as teenagers, identical twins Gwennan and Elin Thomas were inseparable, even going to the same university.

‘We were, and are, best…

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Here is a link to the My Life documentary broadcast earlier this year. Detailing the children who attended the BeBold Camp 2011.

Please enjoy it is a wonderful film.

http://www.bebold.org.uk/dir/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223&Itemid=231

Early lessons in life have an impact. If you are surrounded by people, even in your own family, who put Hollywood standards of air-brushed, coiffed and "bought" physical beauty as the value of a person, then I guess you will be totally freaked out by alopecia. But if you learn a lesson early on in life, or repeatedly so it stays with you, that accidents, illness, war, or any other change can change the outside but maybe not the inner core of what makes you lovable to someone, then you will…

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Hey everyone I'm wondering whether anyone who has dark hair and AA has had to shave their hair completely bald? Is it impossible to get rid of the patches of hair that are left? Im asking as i know at some stage in the future i will have to shave my head bald as im going bald naturally anyway. Has anypne ever tried hair removal cream? OR is it possible to shave it all off?

Hi. I haven't been on here in the longest. So today was the day I decided to check up on what I have been missing! :) I also thought I would update on my current hairpiece and my life. *takes deep breath* So, two weeks ago, I got my new Locks Of Love hairpiece and I'm in love. I posted the picture of my new hair piece as my thumbnail and in the photo thing. It's really long and the bangs are cut almost the same way as the old one. I was sad to give up my last one because I dyed the bangs a…

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