Reversing Your Hair Loss - A Practical Scientific Guide by Robert J. Hall

Author:Robert J. Hall [Hall, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Tags: Health, Mind & Body
ISBN: 9781456620165
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Published: 2013-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Disguises

Current treatments for MPB can be divided into three general types. The first is an ‘external’ solution designed to merely disguise the loss of hair. The second is an ‘internal’ approach that attempts to alter the body’s own inner chemical environment (thus changing the one that led to the hair-loss in the first place). The last mode of treatment is one where external intervention of some description is used to also bring about these internal changes.

Concentrating on the first approach, it can be seen that, again, there are three distinct types of solution. In no particular order, they are wigs, fibre treatments and hair transplants.

No great discussion of these treatments will be taking place here. As just pointed out, they are simply cosmetic cover-ups that do not address the problem in any real way. They are all expensive, none really work, each has limitations that are never really disclosed in the sales literature and at least one is potentially dangerous.

The first, and oldest, answer to hair-loss is to simply wear a wig. Strictly speaking, a wig is a full headpiece, whilst a toupee is a smaller construction used to conceal partial baldness. Wigs may be obviously false, whilst the whole point of a toupee is not to be. Either may be called a hairpiece.

Wearing a hairpiece to disguise baldness is always a mistake. Very few people are fooled by them, especially those that have known you for any length of time. Going from bald to mop-headed in the space of a single weekend is just one of many giveaways. The only thing that stops comments being made to your face (except by schoolboys across the street perhaps) is the simple fear of giving offence. No such fear is attached to comments made behind your back, of course.

It is a singular fact that if you are sufficiently concerned about your baldness to wear a wig then having purchased one you will inevitably transfer those concerns to wearing it. Does it show? Has it slipped? Is anyone talking about it behind my back? Wearing a wig will generate the same levels of stress as worrying about your thinning hair – just more expensively.

For various reasons, all hairpieces are ultimately detectable whatever the makers say. Even the very best will eventually raise suspicions. At that point, of course, there is no point in wearing one.

The only exception to this general advice is to conceal hair-loss through chemotherapy and suchlike. Women especially need to preserve their dignity and wigs will serve to do this. Most people will be more than understanding and, as such, the stigma and ridicule reserved for (generally male) vanity will be absent. Such hair-loss is likely to be only temporary and adopting the measures laid out in the second approach will help speed up the recovery.

Hairpieces of any description suffer from the obvious disadvantage of never growing in length. This means that several of them, all of the same type and shading, should be worn in rotation to give the semblance of natural hair growth and cutting.

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