When I was 38, two tiny bald patches on the back of my head led to a diagnosis of alopecia areata. Interior designer Sheila Bridges explains why a life without hair doesn't wig her out The reason she really loved her hair Lucinda Ellery owns salons in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Los Angeles I will go to my grave with long, blonde hair. That would feel like a terrible punishment to me. The hair she really hasĪ short black ball of frizz with bald patches Why she'll never shave it all off I see a lot of genetic female pattern hair loss and cancer treatment hair loss. I weave my clients' remaining hair through a light mesh cap of extensions that they can leave on day and night. Then in the mid-'80s, I tried extensions, but back then the process was primitive and very damaging. I got my first wig when I was 12 - it was one of the best days of my life. I learned later that I had alopecia areata: my immune system was attacking my hair follicles. When I was 9, I lost two-thirds of my hair overnight. Hair replacement specialist Lucinda Ellery makes a case for keeping it unreal How she got into the fake hair business Two women with the same autoimmune disease - two very different takes on losing it all.
Unfortunately, the most common culprit, genetic female pattern hair loss, is chronic. Or is it? Many of the causes of hair loss - crash dieting, reactions to medications - are temporary address the underlying issue and your hair will grow back. What we could once bend (or straighten or color) to our will feels suddenly, terrifyingly beyond our control. Our obsession with our hair reaches a whole new level when we start losing it.
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