Hello Alopecia World Community, 

It has been over 5 years since I've been active and here I am again. I was reading through some of my old blog posts and it was at a time when I was lonely, not feeling accepted, and losing most of my hair for the first time. Since then, I found love and got married! He doesn't have AA, but he did lose half of his hair from regular male pattern baldness at some point in our marriage so now he shaves his head bald too =p

I even had my…

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I am shopping for a new wig. I tried the full lace as my first and have really enjoyed the very natural look of it. Most people can't even tell. I have no problem with telling anyone that it is a wig. They are so popular here in Atlanta that it's not surprising to see people wearing them in the Black Community.

I'm thinking about getting bangs since it will be easier to hide the hairline where it's easier to tell. Anyone have suggestions?

Ok, so I don't get to get on here much but I've been feeling slightly "down in the dumps" lately about wearing a wig. I have a huge family thats predominantly females. All of them have beautiful full set of hair. When I don't have my wig on I wear a scarf or turbin around the house. Today I felt very sad after watching my mom style her hair. She was mentioning how much better she felt and how having her hair styled brightens her day. She then looked at me and mentioned how I looked like a… Continue

This morning I woke up and did a Britney Spears. Yes, I cut off all my hair. I am so happy and relieved I made this decision. I've never been completely bald before, and so far, it's not so bad. I want to thank the Alopecia World community for being so inspirational. I also want to thank the community at HerAlopecia.com and my family :)

Okay so I finally ordered my very first wig last night! And yes, suprisingly I am super excited over it. My excitement mainly comes from a particular video series from a person on youtube by the screenname: twinkeez2003



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9DY6UqTOQ…



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Living with Alopecia for over 15 years now I can read my patterns to some degree. I know my hairloss this time is going to be extremely bad, probably the worst its ever been. But, I don't know if I'm going to lose all my hair. I've read that areata can lead to totalis or universalis, so there is always that fear in my head. Is this it? Will it all fall out this time? Currently, nobody can tell that I have bald spots yet.

Since my hairloss is progressing at a really fast rate and the spots… Continue