Hello everyone. First off, thanks to you all who commented on my first post. I went away on vacation and saw a bunch of family, including many young nieces and nephews. While it was fun, I kept thinking over and over how this will be the last time anyone on my husband's side of the family will see me with my natural hair. The little girls loved playing with my hair and I was just so nervous about them making a comment about my growing bald spots. Thankfully they did not. But ack.. why do I…

I wanted to share with you all the recent article that was written about my alopecia journey and my love of horses. This was written in a western Canadian publication and available in all tack stores and feed stores.

So I came cross the wig grip and I don't need to wear tape who of thought! My wig does not move.

A Brisbane Times news articled states:

“When Joanna Rowsell's right eyebrow disappeared 14 years ago, an event that only marked the beginning of hair loss all over her then nine-year-old body, she could never have imagined feeling good about the experience that completely threw her self-esteem and caused her to hide under hats and wigs.”

“On Saturday night in London, the same person stood before the world as she was crowned an Olympic world champion. At age 23, bald…

Hey all.

Yet another small thing I feel like sharing.

I went out to a club bald. :)

like, no scarf, no hat, no hair bald, to an alcohol filled, too loud doof-doof music club. First time ever, and it was awesome.

I've been wanting to do this for a while now. I think clubs are fairly high pressure anyway, with all the guys looking to find girls, and the girls all dolled up so that they can find guys or at least look better than the other girls. I figured if I can be…

Alopecia does make you a better person at heart i agree with that but it is a pain and brings many hardships to people's lifes especially mine and you do not know if people leave you or do things because of it. Walking around is horrible most of the time because people stare at you wondering if you have cancer and then if you talk to them and tell them they either feel bad for you or treat you different even if it feels to them like they do not they really do. People do not look into other…

Yesterday was my first day with a wig, it was extremly uncomfortable. A really pretty front lace synthetic shoulder length dark brown. I guy at work said "someone whent to the hairdresser, Nice!". I should mention that last week I had a really short light brown haircut. So they don't seem to care or notice.

However pretty I looked I felt horrible, uncomfortable and just wanted to flush the wig down the toilet. But i couldn't because underneath was my horrible patchy unflattering…

According to an article on Essence.com, some believe that Gabby should be more concerned with more than just her Olympic dream.

"On Tuesday, 16-year-old Gabrielle 'Gabby' Douglas led our women’s gymnastics team to a gold medal, the USA’s first since 1996. The bouncing, bubbly…

What a year its been so far. Unbelievable and Im totally gobsmacked. Im grateful and humbled that all that has transpired in the last 7 months. Curious as to what the rest of the year will bring.

Lets start this with the article that was written about me and voyages to the gym, which was issued in my local newspaper in late April. This was after I approached the marketing director of the gym I go to, about the possibility of raising some awareness about alopecia. I had been approached…

Has anyone else had problems with hair products containing gluten? I recently had a bad reaction and I am wondering if it was the gluten in the product. If you want to read what happened, check it out here

I have several children close to me... most act like I look the same as I always have and some have noticed I have no hair!

A co-worker brought her daughter to work, she just loves me and has the biggest personality at the age of five!

As I was leaving this is how the conversation went...

Bri was watching Heather Grace and showing her what tellers do.

I walk by to leave and...

Heather Grace shouts: Are you leaving?

Me: Yes, I'm going home.

I lean over and…

I am celebrating 30 days of being"Bald and Proud".

I just wish I had done it sooner.

I think this poem convey how I feel.

Being a slave to society's whimsical tune about beauty

I conformed by buying hair that was not mine

Taken from the heads of people in foreign lands

Convinced their contribution will be paid back by GOD.

The long tresses I wore despite the guilt

Agonizing headaches from it being sewed in

I look in the mirror…

Hello everyone. I just found and joined this site last night. First, I wanted to say that I am grateful this site exists. I stumbled upon it when I was looking for information on how to exercise in a wig. It looks like an amazing community and I look forward to getting to know everyone.

Second, a little about me. I am in my mid-30s and was diagnosed last year with scarring alopecia. When that diagnosis came in April, it was like my whole life felt shattered. I had been worried about…

British cycling champion Joanna Rowsell has revealed how her hair-loss disorder, alopecia areata, spurred her on to be "even more focused" after becoming an overnight poster girl for all sufferers.

Joanna shared the following "It scares me to think I would not have found cycling. The alopecia made me very shy so I stayed in and intensely focused on my homework or that A* in an exam.

"Working hard was the only thing that stopped me from worrying about the future, about whether I…

I would say, I joined this site to feel as if I were not the only one with this. My story started last year September. One lonely little patch my barber pointed out to me. I thought nothing of it and blamed him for the ordeal. It grew over time and started spreading. How depressed I felt, having to wear a hat everyday. Waste of time going to the doctor spent money to no avail. That point in my life I found was very stressful, mostly financial.

I said to myself just wait it out, my…

You know all of my posts and questions about the dating world and what to do with my wig and how do I tell him and how getting rejected really hurts....well, all of the time that I waited to find the right man has paid off.

I met Tom online and on my dating profile I listed about my alopecia because I wasn't going to hide anything. Right off the bat he was very accepting and supportive. He has been so wonderful! We have been dating just over a month and he has seen me with my wig and…

It was a Tuesday. I was 15 years old, and like every Tuesday, I would go to the doctor, receive my treatment, and then go home. On that particular Tuesday, however, something different occurred. I didn’t follow my normal routine. It was a strange day for me. I had that routine memorized like the back of my hand, but that Tuesday was the day it all changed.

I sat in the waiting room of the doctor’s office. I had always hated the plain gray walls that began to blur when you stared at…

Hello! My sister Cait and I both have alopecia and in February 2011 started the This Is Me Campaign!! We have grown tremendously in the past 18 months and now have a scholarship foundation in honor of 2 of our best friends we lost last year. We give scholarships to those who face adversity, or have helped others over come adversity, as all of you have!!!

We just launched our new facebook page (…