“You Have Hair!”

I have always been very self conscious about my hair, or lack thereof.  My hair has been thinning for a very long time. See this post —-> https://stacylevitsky.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/hair-loss/ to read more about it. You can also check out my no ‘poo experiment here —-> https://stacylevitsky.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/no-poo-experiement/, another attempt at fixing my hair problem. I’ve been contemplating a hair piece for a while; I have a friend who wears one (for different reasons than me) and you would never know! She contacted me after she read my post on my thinning hair and actually came over and let me try some of her hair pieces and wigs on. I ordered a hair piece that night and found out a few days later it was on back order (popular piece, I guess!) and was notified that it would take over two months to get to me. After waiting a little over one month, I cancelled the order. I guess I was nervous. It cost a good amount of money and I just kept thinking about all of the other things that we needed that I could use the money on.

Fast forward to about two weeks ago. I ended up having to wash my hair after trying the no ‘poo method for about a month. Again, I was so self conscious about how I looked. I contemplated buying a very expensive hair product system that is supposed to help with thinning hair. The cost of that was also high, so I figured I might as well re-order the hair piece.

It came in the mail yesterday.

I was so nervous. I’m not sure why, but I had butterflies in my stomach all day. I guess I was nervous that I would look ridiculous or that the color wouldn’t match or that I would hate it and I wasted money. When I first put it on, I felt ridiculous. I am not used to seeing myself with hair. It was shocking. It was also heavy like a hat. I didn’t know if I could get used to that feeling. It clips in in four different places and it felt secure, but I started to worry that it would blow off in the wind. I was worried it looked fake. It looked fake to me. But I’m used to seeing my scalp all the time.

I sent a picture to my sister. She loved it. I sent a picture to my mom. She loved it. My hubby came home and he said I looked different – but a good different. He said, “You have hair!” LOL!

I wore it around the house all evening and a couple of times I even forgot I had it on. The heavy feeling went away for the most part. This morning I needed to run to Target for a few things and decided to try it out. I felt nervous since it was windy, but it held firm. I called my sister on my way there and told her I was feeling nervous. She assured me that it looked great and that I just needed to be confident. And you know what?

I felt confident and I looked great!

I only noticed I had it on twice in Target. We were there for an hour or so. When I went to pick up my prescription, the pharmacist didn’t look at my scalp once! Most people have a hard time keeping eye contact. Most people’s eyes will wander up to my hair line. They don’t mean to, but I notice.

When I got home I looked in the mirror and I felt great. I even got a little teary-eyed. This is absolutely life-changing. My hair loss has been one thing that really holds me back. Now I don’t have to think about it any more. I contemplated posting my pictures, because it’s kind of embarrassing. Ok, really embarrassing; like don’t-want-to-leave-the-house-sometimes embarrassing. But, there may be someone who finds my blog who feels the same was I do, who needs to know they are not alone. And if someone doesn’t want to be my friend, or thinks differently of me because of this, then that’s their problem. So here you go! The before and after!

For anyone interested in purchasing this hair piece, here is the link.  http://www.wowwigs.com/frontline.html

Hair Loss

I have a confession to make. If you’ve ever been talking to me for any length of time you probably already know this, but I have very thin hair in the front of my head; I also have bald spots. It all started over 10 years ago when I had my back surgeries and a wrist surgery and then diagnosed with fibromyalgia. My hair was falling out like crazy. I think it’s from a combination of all of the medication I was taking and stress.  I am extremely self conscious about it. I try to style my hair so my scalp is not as visible, but lately it has been really bothering me. Some days go by and I don’t even think about it, but other days it’s always on my mind (literally  – lol!) and I don’t want to leave the house. I have tried Nioxin, a shampoo, conditioner and foam treatment in the past, but it makes my hair very dry. I have also tried many different hair styles and colors to disguise it, but I don’t think anything has really worked. I talked to Mike a couple days ago about trying Rogaine for Women. It’s expensive and one of the side effects can be hair loss (!?) so i’m not sure if that’s the route I want to go. I have done a little research and I think I am going to try apple cider vinegar. You can rub it into your scalp and it’s supposed to help. We will see. Everything I have ready says that organic unpasteurized ACV is the best, so I’m going to run by the health food store and pick some up. I will let you know how this little adventure goes. Until then, please keep me in prayer….it’s really bothersome and I don’t want it to get in the way of all the things I should be focusing on!!!