My Hair, My Choice: Wig and Hair Topper Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe wigs, toppers and hair systems. Writers describe why they first went looking — chemotherapy and radiotherapy, alopecia areata, scarring alopecia, lupus, menopause, low iron, grief, weight loss, trichotillomania, or fine hair that wanted volume — alongside those who wear wigs for fashion and protective styling, or simply because nobody where they live thinks twice. There is the first fitting and the learning curve: synthetic versus human hair, lace fronts and how to blend them, clip-in toppers on thinning partings, bonded men's hair systems, tapes and glues, and the care a human hair wig demands. Writers describe wearing them in the heat, at the gym, under a veil, through a job interview and on a plane, as well as the toddler who pulled one off and the glue that brought out a rash. Outcomes include thirty contented years of hair systems, a wig that helped someone stop pulling, and several who chose scarves or a bare head instead, or now wear one only on some days. Later chapters cover telling partners and dates, a fight for a wig prescription, a fitter who later needed one herself, children, men, and advice for a first wig.

Who it's for

For anyone buying a first wig or topper, people losing hair to treatment or alopecia, men curious about hair systems, and family members who want to help without saying the wrong thing.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 243 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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