Being a multicultural woman with African American roots (pun definitely intended) I have felt this acutely. I have never been fully comfortable wearing my Au naturel curly locks to a job interview because I never wanted my interviewers to see me as "unprofessional" or "untamed.” I would always straighten my hair or put it in a sleek ponytail because I felt that interviewers would then take me more seriously.
The hardest part of being a woman with alopecia is difficult to pinpoint. First of all, it absolutely decimates your self-confidence. Whether you typically wear your hair long or short, struggling to cover those maddening bald spots, where your tresses have fallen out in clumps, sabotages your self-esteem like the worst kind of schoolyard bully.
For a young hair icon and TV star, Yara Shadidi is a true phenomenon who is beautifully coming into her own as a young lady of 21-years-old! We’re excited to announce that she’s our first celebrity highlight of the month.You can easily forget that this Black-ish star (Zoey Johnson) is just 21-years-old. She began her television career appearing in commercials as a baby. She then went on to star on an ABC hit show that further brought her into the limelight.
Have you heard about the halftime show at the 2022 Super bowl? There’s been lots of buzz about how Dr. Dre brought the party with a team of Beauties and Beasts. The popstar led a rousing homage to his home city of Los Angeles during the Super Bowl 2022 halftime show–and he did it alongside some of music’s brightest stars
In the early stages of Alopecia, the balding quickly became worse. One afternoon, I was brushing my hair before washing it, and with each stroke, my hair slipped away from my head. I was brushing and brushing and brushing, and it was all falling on the bathroom floor. I was devastated, lying on the floor crying while the shower was still running. My family was home, but no one fully knew the pain I was enduring at that moment. I eventually gathered myself together enough to wash what hair was left. Once finished, I began to add my leave-in conditioner and comb it through my hair, but my hair was completely falling out before my eyes. So much hair was dropping to the floor. I was just collecting handfuls of hair in my hands and putting it in the toilet.
When I was first diagnosed with Alopecia, I felt like someone put a curse on my happy, little life. Did I accidentally step on someone’s toe and they decided that this was the best way to smite me? I don’t know, but trying on wig, after wig, after wig to camouflage my rapid hair loss was surely a curse on its own.
