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About Me:
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About me... and my hair loss...
When I first started losing hair, I ignored it completely. I'd notice it during styling, and not think of it again. I assumed my hair looked thin because I was overweight and that it would look thicker if my body was smaller. Ha.
After four years of diffuse balding at a pretty slow pace, right around my 22nd birthday, it started falling out like my hair just didn't love me anymore and wanted to see other people. When it got embarrassing, I saw my doctor, who shuffled me off to a dermatologist, who took a punch biopsy to determine whether it's androgenetic alopecia, telogen effluvium, or both. After two horrendous weeks of waiting, it was determined that I was dealing with Alopecia Areata. Never a dull moment with my scalp, I guess. I cut it down in stages and am currently rocking a 1/4" buzz cut. Now I'm finding that most people take to me pretty easily - either because they expect to find something interesting about me because of the cut, or because I'm just more outgoing and friendly... because of the cut. Either way, I tell everyone that it was the best decision I made. This is the most practical, comfortable, low-maintenance, cheap haircut I've ever had, and those are really the buzzwords for how I want everything to be. Practical. Comfortable. Low-Maintenance. Cheap.
On June 20 (nine months to the day before my wedding :D) I wandered into a wig store hoping to try on some wigs and photograph a few laughs. Two hours later I walked out with a very cute, highlighted, synthetic monofilament-cap wig. I seriously owe my mom a HUGE thanks for that. No questions asked, told me, "Don't even look at the price tag. If you love it, you love it. Period." I love my mom.
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