I'm getting my hair cut on the 20th.  I've decided to go with a super short pixie.  I've been wearing my hair pulled back this week to get a feel for it.  No hiding!   I just went to the Wegman's  and a woman smiled at me pointed to her head, and said " I like your hair." Yeah!  Right now, there are a ton of women without hairloss getting undercuts and shaving off parts of their hair.  When you "own" a look it becomes part of who you want to be.  This is who we are. …

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Thursday night I was really feeling the effects of work stress. My hairline was all inflamed and itchy. I didn't sleep well, and the next day was really hot. I couldn't face painting on my damn eyebrows. I decided to let it all hang out on Friday. I pushed the hair back revealing my hairloss, and went to school sans brows. I was really self conscious at first. I work at a school, and I didn't know what the kids would say. They can be brutally honest at times. So when they asked, I told them… Continue

My eyebrows are all gone except for a few stray hairs. I do a pretty good job painting them on for work, but it's time consuming. I just stopped wearing them to the gym. I just took up dragon boat paddling, and I'm going browless to that. I think it was harder to lose my eyebrows than my hair. I used to have beautiful eyebrows...

I'm interested in what coping rituals people use. I have a nightly bathroom mirror "face off" where I REALLY look at myself, and dare myself to be more than just "ok" with it. I'm considering some kind of undercut and just embracing it. I'm an aging, GEN X punk girl. I just want to stop hiding it all together, and just put it out there, right in everyone's face.