I Need a Make Over!

Ever since I shaved my head I have been dreaming of giving myself a make over. The problem is that I don’t know what I want!

I feel like my hair helped create the style that I often wore and now that my hair is gone, that style no longer looks right! Well, to be honest, it never looked right anyway because I was always in “mommy attire,” frumped out in old stained tee-shirts and jeans that just don’t look right. Now, I don’t have “mom” jeans, but I used to, so at least I am not stuck in the 80’s wearing the kind of jeans that come so high up the waist that they choke me.

Being bald, I can truly have so many looks that are really sleek and sophisticated or low key and comfortable. I want to be in the middle somewhere and able to swing to the left or to the right if my mood strikes! My other problem is the amount of weight I carry. I definitely need to lose weight, so my temptation to purchase new clothing and accessories, gets pushed to the wayside. I should just do it, but I don’t like the way a lot of the clothes look on me at the moment. A very generous friend gave me a huge box of clothes that didn’t fit her anymore, and I have been looking through them trying to put some outfits together. It really helped to have another style different than my own to see that I can look good in different types of clothes…it boosted my self confidence a tad and for that I am so grateful!

Hair Loss Doesn’t Have to Hold Us Down!

So, what do you do when you begin to lose your hair? What happens when it starts to get so thin that it is not only noticeable to you but also to those around you? If we are feeling emotionally vulnerable because we feel ashamed of our hair loss, we can go into panic mode and just cover it up with a hat or scarf…but is that enough for you? Will that help you to move forward with your life despite losing your hair?

There are far more options available to us than ten or twenty years ago, and there is no reason for us to stay in panic mode for too long. With beautiful hats, scarves, wigs, hair systems, accessories and clothing, you can kick it up a notch and remake yourself. What kind of hair have you always wanted to have? What color? What style? We all do it…you know…wish we had someone else’s hair! When we have straight hair, we wish it was curly or wavy, when we have curly hair we wish we had straight hair. Blonde’s want to take a bash at being a brunette and brunettes would love to walk just one day in the shoes of a blond! Red heads usually love their hair, but then again EVERYONE LOVES THE WAY RED HAIR LOOKS! LOL

If you could remake yourself right now, what would you do? What would you wear? We spend so much time worried about what we can’t control, that we neglect and refuse to fix what we can control. We can get a chic new wig, wear some very stylish hats, buy new make up and accessories and become a diva if we choose to.

There is no reason for hair loss to hold us down. We can worry about our hair at home, but while we are out and about, we can look fabulous! The choice is ours and as Alopecians we have the right to not only change the way we look from one day to the next, we also have ability to blend in to our community or stand out.