Hi Lynn! Sorry for such a late response. Thanks for the friend add. I have my days with this. I don't like Alopecia, but I'm living with it. Thanks for your tips and open honesty. Cheers!

Hi Lynn !

Thanks for the add and Have a GREAT day !

Hi sorry if I have already asked you this but how is smart lace different to french lace? Why would you recommend it above french lace? thanx rose

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Hello Lynn,
Thank you for the friend request:) I'm new to the website, and don't really know that many people yet! It's very hard for me to deal with this disease. I'm in middle school, and i'm not brave enough to walk around without a wig on. I'm ashamed of myself, and embarrased. I absolutely HATE alopecia. It makes me very depressed, and upset. What do you think about it? How do you cope? You seem like a very nice person, and i look forward to hearing back from you:D
Have a great day,
Sarah Posante

Hey Lynn,
Thank you for your honesty. Most days I feel like thats all I have left. I know what its like to feel like a fraud. I know I'm pretty... when I wear my wig. I used to FEEL pretty before my hair fell out, without make up. Now to come home, peel off my lie, and not recognize whats left. The worst part of this is feeling like no one else in the world could understand me. The denial is still in and out... but I'm finding the more I embrace it, the tiny moments where I own it and open up about it and tell people... the easier it has become to swallow. And not always, but sometimes it helps. I want to be courageous, I want to be strong and accept it... but its not easy. Sometimes its impossible.
Being a hairdresser is a double edged sword. I always feel like people look at me in the salon and see through me, but it helps to know to how cut/color/style hair pieces. And I've learned many makeup tips to hide that I don't have eyebrows/eyelashes.
I feel like I just dumped my heart on your wall... I hope thats ok. I take my day moments at a time, knowing I can start it over anytime by trying to be nice to myself. I hope this was helpful.
Chin up,
Lynds

honestly i can't remember exactly, but i think it was around $400 for the first session...then you typically have them done a second time 6 months later b/c the tattoo fades. email him directly and he can give you his exact quotes

Hi, My implants were saline but the shell is silicone. I would always have a reaction to silicone things but I was young and never thought that oh yea silicone breaks me out and gives me blisters don't put it in your body. I do think that having them in confused my immune system. I just want to get to the point that this is just a part of me now and except it. But it is much harder said then done. How did you learn to except it?

Thanks for the compliment Lynn! I can still make it work...i curl it and blow dry with a lot of foam so it looks thicker :-)))

I STILL THINK YOUR GORGEOUS............your features are beautiful,and hair cant change that.

Hi Lynn
I just lost my eyebrows for the second time - for me also the second time was worse. I freaked out for two days and have now moved on. Alopecia has a mind of its own. Hang in there!!!

I go without covering, and I am accepting now...leave those who judge, and keep moving.

Hi Lynn,
Thanks for the friend request. I can relate to your comments about feeling like a fraud. I think I have the same voices in my head - "I'm not dying with cancer, I should be grateful, It's only hair." And when I get compliments I feel like saying, "But this isn't really me." Now I've lost one eyebrow and eyelashes on one eye. Jeez, I'll really feel like a fraud with false eyebrows and eyelashes!! Don't know how to get past that. I think for me it has something to do with the fact that I'm really big on honesty in my life. We gotta keep working on it! Hang in! What kind of a wig are you wearing now? (They're great in the photos, by the way!)

Hi Lynn, I wear a wig from Joseph Paris Salon in NYC on Madison Ave. It was a bit pricy - $3400 and Ive only had it since April and have had to get hair added twice already but definitely worth it. No one can tell, I wear it everyday and never has anyone questioned it. My eyebrows are starting to go as of this week so that is my next obstacle! Any suggestions on that? Do you still have yours? Good luck in your search for the right wig, not that any wig im sure is what we think is "right". i know im extremely insecure about mine. I am also waiting to pick up a synthetic wig from a place locally in west hartford, it is heat resistant and can be blow dried and straightened if needed! Im excited to see how this turns out and it was only 1800! I will keep you updated. Find a reason to smile each day, take care!

Hey! Gee I am never on the computer it seems! Soooooo bad of me! Did I ever reply to the question about continental hair? I went to see them back in Fall 2008 and bought a $2500 human hair wig which I hated in the end. It was thinned out but the stylist goofed up and cut too much off or layered it funny. I didn't realize until I got it home. It was a bob and in the end I really hate Bobs on me so that was part of the prob lem. I took it to another hairstylest in my neck of the woods and tried to salvage it. Still hated it. I just sold it to a co-worked who loved the stupid thing. Did you ever make it to Toronto?

Hi Lynn, thanks for the compliment : )

Sorry you couldn't join us - it was a great time. Aside from one woman who came wearing a head scarf (and removed it to swim), the rest of us were hair & wig free.

I usually go there on weekends, so if you feel like a swim, give me a shout

Lynn - a group of people with various type of Alopecia are meeting at Hopkinton State Park today (sat. July 17) for a picnic and swimming. Join us!

Hello Lynn how are you??

Hi Lynn,
I need a lot of friends,.....I't a new world for me...
I live in Italy close swizzerland.... In my country alopecia is "out"..... We don't have a good wigs, good tape for wig, nothing-nothing.....Believe me is very difficult for myself...I need to discovery all in this new world...
Patty