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So scared about going wigless!
Tomorrow I've decided that I'm going to transition from my beautiful long curly wig to my short dark straight hair that has been slowly growing back over the last few months. I'm so scared. I hope to think that this is the end of it all (my dermatologist has said my recovery was good) but what if it comes back? It was easy enough to transition to a wig as nobody noticed, but I'm so worried the hair I have now will fall out then I wouldn't know what to do! It would be embarrasing for me to have to switch back into a wig, like I failed.
Big day tomorrow, incredibly anxious.
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Comment by Tallgirl on February 4, 2012 at 2:50pm
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Well, you have to do what's good for you...not for the screaming masses or mean girls. When mine came back enough, I got a short shag haircut (1970s), and luckily, it stayed grown in from college to my late 30s. I have come to terms with alopecia now, and do not give a hoot about the folk in this small town or their gossip about my hair or my condition. One football dad once hadn't seen me in two years, and had the nerve to say on the bleachers at a son's game, "Gee, we thought you were dead by now." (He assumed cancer. STILL rude!) You have to consider what you want to portray to others. Pretend it is your own hair? That eliminates sudden short-to-long options (maybe have a short wig, like your own hair, ready-to-go in case you ever need it.). Fashion or mood? Then anything goes. Just want to play with people's heads? Intentionally make crazy transitions and do the unexpected to confuse them. It is all in your attitude and belief in yourself. The others are not worth spit!
By the way...you haven't failed. You are doing what you need to do for YOU, and that takes moxie! Good luck, have fun, and take your new "do" to a Superbowl party to "test drive" it!
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