I am looking for teenagers with alopecia to interview for a school related project on alopecia. I am at the graduate level and have a great idea!! l If you are interested please e-mail me at megpierce11@gmail.com. Thanks for your interest.

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I went into town with my mum for a bit of a girly day out shopping really. We were queuing to pay, and with it being half term holidays, we were next to a mum with her two young daughters. The youngest, about 4 or 5 years old, kept staring at me and whispering to her sister, "That girls got no hair". okay I can accept that. I'm sure I would have at her age. then she turns around to her mum, "That girls got no hair". okay, a little annoying now. once…

If we can face life’s challenges feeling good about ourselves, we can

often meet those challenges with more

clarity, more determination, and more

understanding. At no time is such love

of self more important than when fighting

cancer. Yet many women find their

love of self becomes compromised by

the emotions stirred when they find a

bald, “sick-looking” person staring back

at them in the mirror. Even women who

rise above self-deflating…

Hard to believe that it's been so long since I've posted anything here. Hope everyone here is doing well. My own journey over the past 8 months has taken me to many places…some new, some not so new, some I’d rather forget and be done with. My alopecia continues, primarily in the background as I continue to adapt, yet occasionally offers…

I have had Alopecia Areata for about 20 years. The first time it fell out I lost most of my hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows. Then some grew back, but not all of it. A few years later a friend who was a nurse told me to try P.U.V.A. which I did and to my surprise all of my hair grew back 100%!!! Of course as you all know there is no cure and when I stopped the…

This weekend has made me reflect on a lot of things. When my hair first started to fall out, the thing that seemed the most scary to me was meeting a guy and having to tell him about my alopecia. Then when I got my wig I gained a lot more confidence, and telling someone didn't seem so scary, in my mind. I have now lost 3/4's of my hair....the other quarter, which I was certain would have gone by now is still hanging in there. I have really come to terms with losing my hair and it's something…

Many of us aspire to be more like our wonderful AW role model, Crowned Regal. Last night I tried a little bit of "royalty" on my head - I wore some glue-on head jewels for the first time. I bought a kit online last year from a company that supports women with hair loss due to cancer, called "Crown Jewels", but I hadn't found the right moment to try the look.

For my first attempt at head decoration, I chose all-red jewels and wore them to a Valentine's Day folk dance party. I…