Wigs Are My Thinning Hair Remedy!

June 26, 2019

Guest blogger, Wendy, is one of our Community Ambassadors! Read about her experience with thinning hair and wigs.

Wigs are the Best Thinning Hair Solution

I always had thin hair. Ever since I was a kid. I remember some boy calling me bald in third grade. I had no idea what he was talking about. And I stayed none the wiser until I was all grown up. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. Not only was my hair thin, but I was full on bald in some spots. And so a bevy of hair loss solutions came into play. They weren’t pretty. In fact, some were down right ugly...if only I’d just tried a hair topper or a wig first, I could have saved myself a world of pain...

I guess the very first thing I probably tried were volumizers. They come in many forms from shampoo to mousse to powder. I always went for the powder because it was miraculous, but I always overdid the powder because it was miraculous. I wanted to guarantee that I would see something unbelievably spectacular happening up in that hair...Every dang time, I ended up looking like a drugstore doll that had been electrocuted.

Then there were the expensive and high maintenance grow-your-hair-back “treatments”. Oils, serums, special shampoos, foam chemicals...You’d think I would have avoided the chemicals. But, no, I went for a foam first, thinking I would regrow hair that probably never existed. I carefully saturated my scalp in stuff I couldn’t even pronounce. Ugh. Chemicals. I got fed up when I didn’t see results. My husband thought he did, though. On HIMSELF.

Then I turned to my tried and true colored powders, sprays, fibers, mascara-like touch up wands, actual mascara, and stuff you just hose onto your scalp like your taking a can of spray paint and tagging your own head. These “color by bald spot” solutions were my best option. And my worst enemy. I remember my head resting on the coach after a steamy embrace with my husband...I got up, glowing with love, until my feelings turned to severe embarrassment as I spied a BIG dark spot of hair color powder where my head had touched the cushion. Worse? I couldn’t get it off. It’s there, facing the back of the coach in exile, but haunting me still...

My point is, I went through a lot to come to one simple solution... Wigs are where it’s at for me. I don’t have to hide my bald spots anymore (wigs are so realistic now that people are constantly mistaking them for my bio hair!), I have freedom of expression (what color or cut do I feel like framing my face with today?), and it’s easy and quick (wigs are a super fast way to the perfect hairstyle! Just put it on and go!