I work in a preschool and one day I was working with a group of 4 year olds. One of the boys at the table looks deep into my eyes and says "You don't have any eyelashes".(He is the first one to even notice after a year.) I said, "Nope, they all fell out". His response, "Did you make a wish?" I said, "Yup, I made several." Kids are too funny.

I have Alopecia Universalis. I got my eyebrows permanently tattooed in December. Finally, a complete face when I wake up in the morning. Now guess what??? My damn eyebrows have decided to start growing back! What the hell??? Really???? Now I have to pluck because of course, they are not growing back where the tattoos are. Lol, am I being punked? Why couldn't the hair grow back on my head or at least my eyelashes? I would even be happy with a nose hair! Has this happened to anyone else? If…

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My husband and I were recently on a cruise and I noticed a girl wearing a wig (I have "wigdar"), she had no eyelashes or eyebrows. I immediately came to the conclusion that she must have alopecia too. I wanted so badly to walk over and ask but how do you start up a conversation like that? When I finally got up the nerve to go over and start talking to her, my husband got so mad and said that I should just leave her alone. He said she may be trying to forget that she has it and might get…

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This is not another blog about how much life sucks because of alopecia. This is a praise report!!! Although just recently I was diagnosed with and have lost complete body hair I couldn't be happier. Not because I have this funky disease but because I refuse to let it put me in a place of darkness. I have been blessed with a great paying and fulfilling job, I have a loving family who supports me and we are about to purchase our first house. God is so good and greatly to be praised! Where one… Continue

It sucks that I have alopecia but God has given this to me for some reason. I'm ready to turn this thing around and use it as a blessing to someone else. Can anyone tell me how I can plug in and help others who are going through this? I would really like to work with kids. I worked as a preschool teacher for years and then decided to get out of childcare because I thought I was done with kids after I had my second one. I then started selling insurance, you know..... trying to create my own… Continue

Just found a website called Good Wishes and they are giving away complementary scarves and head wraps. Go to www.goodwishesscarves.org

Click on request a scarf and you can either email them, call 1-888-884-3653, or download the request form and fax it back with 3 scarf options. Out of the 3 you choose, they will mail one out to you free of charge. They said it'll take about 3 weeks before I'll receive it. I ordered mine today, go and get… Continue

Ok.... so when I first started to accept that I was losing my hair and it was not going to come back, I thought, well at least wearing wigs and scarves will be easier to maintain. Boy was I wrong!!! I thought that I could just slap on any kind of wig and go. There is human hair, synthetic hair, straight, curly, short, long, lace front, mono top, vacuum, priced from $40.00 to $5000.00. Good Lord! At least with my hair I could put it in a ponytail or bun, where it down, straight or curly, it was… Continue

I have heard from people with Alopecia that we need to be strong. Stop being so weak minded and move on. It may be easier for those who have had to deal with this condition for most or all of their lives. Of course they have adjusted and moved on. For some, Alopecia is all they know. Let's have a little compassion for those that have went their whole lives with a full head of hair and then lost it within a few short months. In my eyes there is no comparison. I consider myself to be an extremely… Continue

I'm talking about nose hairs. Really!! I never knew what the purpose was until I lost them. Now if my nose is runny, I better be really close to a box of tissues or it will drip right out of my nose. Not only that, I always have something in my darn eye now too. Good grief, if nothing else grows back..... please Lord give me my eye lashes and nose hairs. Amen.

Hello Fellow Alopecians,



I'm new to Alopecia World but I am thrilled to have found a site like this. I was feeling like I was the only person in the world with this condition. I was first diagnosed with Alopecia when I was 16. (I'm now 36.) I had a couple of spots in the back of my head. After a few rounds of shots, the hair grew back. 20 years later, the same spots appeared after taking on a new and very stressful job. I figured I would get some shots and they would grow in again.… Continue