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Comment by Bridgid Weber on June 12, 2015 at 5:03pm

Got some more pics back today from my photo shoot last week!

Comment by Bridgid Weber on June 12, 2015 at 12:13pm

You guys are sweet! Thx

Comment by Ulli on June 12, 2015 at 10:56am

I love your pics Bridgid!!! Who needs photoshop with a smile like that? ;-)

Comment by Dominique Cleopatra on June 12, 2015 at 12:20am

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

Comment by Cinder B. Rand on June 11, 2015 at 8:36pm

Love the pictures you look fabulous.  Thank you for sharing

Comment by Bridgid Weber on June 11, 2015 at 7:13pm

BTW, I'm 50 years old and these are not photoshopped! :)

Comment by Bridgid Weber on June 11, 2015 at 7:10pm

So on Saturday June 7th I shared two of the photos from my photo shoot with my 1000plus FB friends.  This included in laws, coworkers, acquaintances, close friends-many of them had no idea that I've been wearing hair for years.  Although losing my hair has been a 20 year process for me it has only recently come to a head, no pun intended.  For many years I covered my very thin show through spots with Dermatch, then Toppik and then a thick layer of Fullmore spray.  When my hair loss became too diffuse I started wearing a topper piece.  In April of this year I admitted to myself that now the hair on the back and the sides of my head had become so thin and the entire top of my head was completely bald.  I switched to a full wig and shaved off the tiny bit of hair I had left.  But the other big thing I did was that I decided to go public about my alopecia.  Here is my FB post. I've had nothing but positive support and have been approached by others who have alopecia in varying degrees. I want some good to come out of this.  I have had some dark days, but this weekend was a triumph for me :

This is ALOPECIA.  This is what I look like when I'm not wearing some hair on my head. I'm not ill.  I'm not bald by choice.  Over the past 20 years I've gone from thin hair to diffuse thinning hair to absolutely no hair on the top of my head.  My friend Caroline Paul Hall​ of Green Faerie Productions​ took these great pics which I post today in the interest of alopecia awareness and in hopes that we as a society can continue to move towards a greater acceptance and maybe even a celebration of our differences.  I also post them as an encouragement to any woman with hair loss. You don't have to hide or be ashamed or embarrassed.  And wear whatever you want --a big Dolly Parton wig, a turban, a ball cap or nothing at all on your head-it’s all good.  We are not our hair. 

“I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”  -Psalm 139:14 

Comment by Mark S. Hansen on June 11, 2015 at 1:55pm

Epistemology, the study of origins of things? History does not change, only its perception and viewpoints as the years go by. But trends morals & norms do. As for some people, I'm not so sure.    

Comment by Mark S. Hansen on June 11, 2015 at 1:51pm

Loved and accepted, for who we are? Good luck. Other than my own parents and or sisters relatives and decades long gone close childhood friends, I have never experienced that and I am over 50. I think we live in the most superficial society, esp with the creation of the gastly impersonability and judgemental quality of digital/social, here today gone tomorrow, media.   

Comment by AbbyAndrew on June 11, 2015 at 1:21pm

It's funny, I always feel like I can relate to people of the LGBT community because for much of my life, I tried to hide the fact that had alopecia as tightly as someone might try to hide their sexuality or true gender identity before coming out.  

Luckily having alopecia doesn't cause me to face political discrimination!  But I definitely have a strong sense of the social pressures that any individual difference causes one to face.  I can definitely relate to how Bridgid feels.  

You're going to look so beautiful in those photos! :)

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