A diagnosis of childhood alopecia can truly shock parents. . Your first thought may be, “hair loss is for the elderly, not for my child!” However, alopecia in children is a lot more common than you’d think. Alopecia areata affects millions of children of all ages; in fact, 1 out of every 1000 children worldwide … Continue reading Children Living With Alopecia
As women, our goal is beautiful, healthy hair. Damage can make styling a challenge and make us feel less than desirable. I mean, who wants thin, brittle hair? Beauty supply shelves are full of products promising to help repair damaged hair. But here’s a big secret: sometimes the problem isn’t which moisturizer you’re using, but … Continue reading 5 Vitamins Your Body Needs to Prevent Hair Damage
Nowadays it’s more acceptable to wear your hair in its natural state, but building up the self-confidence to do so can send you on a tough personal journey. Black hair isn’t just a look—it’s an investment and a grueling relationship that many African American Women choose to commit to. From expensive treatments, monthly trims, and hairstyles that take over 5 hours to complete, women of color suffer constant inconveniences just to get their hair under control.
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.
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.
