There’s a lot to learn when buying a wig, but one thing that often gets missed is how easily you can spend thousands… and end up with something you can’t even wear. Understanding the fine print of a return policy is critical. Add ons like lace cutting, color, face framing layers may seem helpful, but they often void your return, before you’ve even tried the wig on. Every lace front fits differently, even from the same brand. You can’t assume anything will fit until you check it... properly and thoroughly. A glueless lace front wig should be exactly that: glueless. But many women end up needing glue or tape because they weren’t shown how to check lace fit in advance. Wigs can be empowering, or defeating. Protect your peace (and your wallet) by getting informed before you cut, part, or customize anything.   🖤 Thank you for listening. To watch the YouTube version of this episode, visit: https://www.youtube.com/womenshairlossproject Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork  

Dealing with hair loss can be overwhelming, confusing and scary, but the ability to heal within this is real, it exists. It is easy for hair loss to overtake our lives if we don't make proactive steps towards reclaiming our power within this. This episode shares what that process has looked like for me, even present day. I lived at the mercy of hair loss for years... wanting to hide, unable to feel free in any way. That began to change when my perspective on this shifted, when I started making the small but necessary choices to slowly take back control from the very thing that had crippled me for so long. Whether you're just beginning or years in, you are not alone. Healing doesn't mean pretending it's easy, but it does sometimes mean making the hard choices for ourselves. It means pushing against our own comfort zones so that the grip hair loss has had on us can begin to loosen, and in that loosening we start to find our way to live with this, to smile, to laugh. To feel more free.To no longer be held captive by hair loss. 🖤 Thank you for listening. To see the YouTube version of this episode, visit: https://www.youtube.com/womenshairlossproject Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork  

I’ve been living with hair loss for over 26 years. I’ve tried nearly everything, from medication to supplements to procedures. This isn’t medical advice. It’s my lived experience. My own, and that which has been shared with me by countless women over the past 18 years of connecting online with others dealing with this same issue. There are things I wish I knew and understood when I first started losing my hair, things that I don’t think are often talked about online or off, not even in medical offices. This is our hair and our life. And in order to make the best choices for ourselves, we need to have all the facts so we can feel good about the choices we do or do not make. In this episode I cover:  • Why a treatment for hair loss is often a treatment for life • How legitimate hair loss treatments can sometimes make hair loss worse • The most commonly prescribed treatments for women • Why starting treatment too early might lead to long term regret • The risk of getting stuck on medications, whether or not they work • The one question I wish I asked myself: Can I live with this decision 10 years from now? These are the things I wish someone had told me. 🖤 Thank you for listening. To see the YouTube version of this episode, visit: https://www.youtube.com/womenshairlossproject Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

If you’ve been living with hair loss and want to try wigs, but something keeps stopping you, this episode is for you.I’m not talking about which wig to buy or the perfect brand. This is about the emotional barriers that can keep us frozen. The fear. The shame. The weight of other people’s opinions, before we’ve even taken the first step.I’ve lived with hair loss for 26 years. I’ve worn wigs since 2012. I shaved my head in 2023. And I know how hard it can be to feel like yourself again. In this episode, I talk candidly about: •The fear of what other people will think •The first time I saw myself in the mirror again •Why wigs aren’t perfect, and that’s okay •Living the “dual hair life” (bio hair + wigs) •Why 5% of life (the gym, the beach) shouldn’t block 95% of your freedom •What made me rip off my wig in public,  more than once •Why the validation you’re waiting for may never come (and why that’s okay) Wigs aren’t the answer for everyone. But if you want to try them, don’t let fear decide for you.   🖤 Thank you for listening. To see the YouTube version of this episode, visit: https://www.youtube.com/womenshairlossproject Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

It’s been over two years since I shaved my head for hair loss, and it was by far the single hardest thing for me to have done in my 26 year journey with it. I shaved my head for sanity and striving to live free from my being under the thumb of hair loss or at the mercy of what it does and has done to me over the years. In this episode, I reflect on the moment I finally did it, what led up to it, and what’s followed: grief, relief, maintenance, and unexpected things like how clothes hit differently without hair. Whether you’re contemplating shaving your head due to hair loss, living in the space between bio hair and wigs, or perhaps at the start of your journey and just seeking clarity in your own process, I hope this helps. Some of the things discussed are: • Why I couldn’t pull the trigger for so long • What finally gave me the strength to do it • How wigs and bio hair lived in tandem for years • The reality of scalp care, folliculitis, and the daily grind • Why clothes, self-image, and comfort all shift post-shave • What I wish I’d done sooner, and the loss that’s still real.  No regrets. Just truth, trade-offs, and a path forward. 🖤 Thank you for listening. To see the YouTube version of this episode, visit: https://www.youtube.com/womenshairlossproject Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

I started losing my hair in 1999. I was 21 years old. I’m 47 now. That’s over two decades of living with hair loss, adapting, breaking down at times, and continuing on when no answers existed, and in the absence of validation and understanding. This episode isn’t polished. It’s not a tutorial. It’s a reflection on identity, silence, and what it means to keep showing up when your body no longer feels like yours… when the mirror feels like betrayal. Your feelings are real. Your feelings are valid. You’re not vain. And you’re not alone.   🖤 Thank you for listening.   To see the YouTube version of this episode, visit: https://www.youtube.com/womenshairlossproject Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

Let’s challenge our thoughts on why we feel shame for something we didn’t do or cause to ourselves. I think shame keeps us from moving forward, it keeps us down, and it’s worth exploring why we feel this way as it pertains to our hair loss.  This was a FB / YouTube Livestream yesterday, to watch the stream visit: https://www.youtube.com/live/UdoHdKPitog Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

I've had hair loss for 25 years, not one type but two. In 2012 I started wearing wigs and had to make a choice for myself on how I would choose the rest of my life, and it was a choice.  In hiding? Or liberate myself and just be open about my situation. While it's not for everyone I found tremendous value and freedom in my openness, in pulling my hair off at will, and not making apologies for something I cannot control. This is me, it's a part of me life. I share this part of my journey to let people know, YOU get to decide how you want to live with this, there is no right, there is no wrong, but there is so much power in taking back your power from hair loss. Podcast also available to watch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/PYvKXaE91So?si=jnJAk47tk-1Mu46L Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork  

In this episode I discuss some personal stories and reflect on how I came to accept and learn to live with hair loss, the path that helped to get me to where I am today. Hair loss is ever-evolving, and my own journey has been just that. I have 25 years of hair loss, since the age of 21, and I got a 2nd type of hair loss (inflammatory alopecia ) in 2022. I shaved my head May 2023 and I have worn wigs since 2012.  My hair loss journey has not been easy, and finding out that lightning does strike twice definitely impacted me, but one thing that has never changed over the years, is my desire to never want to live a hostage to hair loss ever again, and staying in front of that, whatever that means and whatever that takes. We get choices in this.  So many women and men are struggling day in and out to just get through the day and process this entire thing, the devastation, and I understand. In this episode I share my thoughts on all this and I hope it helps in some way, to at least know the ability to get through this exists, the ability to reclaim your life exists. That is real, and you can do it.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork  

How do we get comfortable in a life with hair loss?  How to we accept the unacceptable ? How do we get comfortable with our hair loss with the choices we make to live with hair loss, including treatment and / or wigs. How do we move forward and let go of what holds us back, which often times is the options of others.  It has taken me a long time to learn to accept this, accept less, accept change, and learn to accept this was my reality. Fighting it only hurt me, denial stole years of my life, it didn’t help me. The ability to be okay, exists, it doesn’t happen overnight, but it does involve being honest with ourselves, it does involve US evolving, and learning all we can to make empowered and educated decisions for ourselves. No one can tell you how to live your hair loss life, the right way is the way that works for you.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject X: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork  

I shaved my head May 7, 2023, due to a second hair loss I got last year, an Inflammatory alopecia. I have had female pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia) for 24 years since the age of 21. I began wearing wigs 11 years ago at the age of 34. I never expected to get a second hair loss, I never thought I'd be forced to NEED to make this choice for survival, to be able to continue to live with hair loss without it stealing any more of my life from me.  I don't love this, I don't love seeing myself with a shaved head, but it is better than the alternative, it is better than the creaturish loss that was more obvious before. In the months prior to shaving, I had reached a place I could no longer look at myself in the mirror, at all.  We have to do the things we need, to move forward, whatever those are in our life. Starting to wear wigs 11 years ago was life changing for me, and I thought I had it figured out, and I did, until I got a second hair loss that changed everything again and I was forced to adapt and evolve again. Thank you for listening, thank you for being here.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

This episode focuses on recapping the last year of my life. This is my life and hair loss update, they tie together. I now have a new type of hair loss in addition to the one I’ve had 24 years - female pattern baldness. The events of last year triggered this new hair loss, and so, here we are. I share about discovering I now also have diffuse alopecia areata (Incognita).  I feel like this update is messy and all over the place, but my life is messy and all over the place, so it works perfectly.   I had no idea it was possible to get more than one type of hair loss, but it is.  I vacillated over the last month on how I would treat it, if I would treat it. After a lot of reflection, I have made the decision I can live with, and I’m declining the use oral minoxidil, (and Dupixent, and Olumiant for that matter). I had previously refused oral minoxidil for my androgenetic alopecia, and I stopped systemically treating my female pattern baldness in 2013. I have only utilized PRP hair loss treatments since 2009 (done every 4-5 months).  This is new, and it is different, but the reasons I’m choosing to not treat it with medication are the very same as I made for my androgenetic alopecia, I am however trying a round of steroid injections, and I’ve already done those two times.  This podcast is a lengthy deep dive into how this came to be, and my thought process behind all of it. This is my life and hair loss update.Reference links to the things discussed in this podcast can be found at the bottom of this post: https://www.womenshairlossproject.com/alopecia-areata/life-update-and-a-new-hair-loss-diffuse-alopecia-areata-incognita/ Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork

This episode focuses on moving forward through hair loss, and what that looked like for me. I know a lot of women are in a place of feeling they will not be able to accept, they will not be able to live with hair loss - but you can, I know you can. I am living proof of that. I share different parts of my story and journey to let you know it took different things along the way to get me to the place I am today.  Believing YOU CAN emotionally get past hair loss is so important.  Removing the fixed mentality that things have to be a certain way - that fixed mentality kept me stuck in my own prison for over a decade, till the one day things changed. I changed. My mindset changed. I learned I could be okay even though my hair wasn’t going to come back. I accepted my hair loss, I accepted what is, I accepting wearing wigs.  I found a new way to live, and I found it when I was open to it. It was there along, but I wasn’t open to it.  I sat down today to speak to you, to speak to the woman who needs to hear these words from the person who has lived through it, and who knows deeply all the emotions and feelings that hair loss brings with it.  We don’t always feel like we have any choices, but we do. It’s not always the choices we want, but we do get choices. Those choices empower us, and bring us closer to reclaiming ourselves and our power. When I stopped feeling like everything was happening to me, out of my control, without any say of my own whatsoever, and began to make the choices I needed to,  and take action over how I dealt with my hair loss - everything changed.  Visit Me Online: Website: womenshairlossproject.com  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossproject YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/whlpnetwork  

Although I have been doing PRP therapy to treat my hair loss for nearly a decade, earlier this year was the first year I had the treatment locally in Beverly Hills by Dr. Baubac Hayatdavoudi, in addition to the PRP, I also had an Exosomes treatment. After 6 months I want to provide my thoughts and where I am at currently. I also discuss the importance or confronting the reality of our hair loss, whether or not we choose to treat it. In my opinion, living in denial can make the journey more difficult and at times also, practically and logistically problematic.  Visit Me Online:Website: womenshairlossproject.com Facebook:  http://facebook.com/womenshairlossprojectInstagram @whlpnetworkYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WomensHairLossProject

This episode is raw and personal.  In this podcast I share with you in more detail the cause of my hair loss, and provide a deeper look into my hair loss story/ journey. Last week I had posted a video on my YouTube Channel that was meant to really just share the cause of my of my hair loss, and open the dialogue for others to comment on the cause of theirs or if they didn’t know what the cause was, to share that too. While I cannot advise what others should or should not do, I think there is benefit in sharing my story so that others can get a deeper look into a 21 year journey of hair loss, beginning at the age of 21,  and caused by the birth control pill Loestrin FE.  The podcast takes a few tangents, but my journey is like one giant tangent, so perhaps it works. I share some of my hair loss treatment regrets, and the things I tried over the years.  It took me a very long time to accept anything and get to the place I am at. It didn’t happen over night, and I think it’s important for others to know that, so they are more patient and kind and loving towards themselves when dealing in what can often seem like the impossible…. Hair loss.  Visit me online via my website: womenhairlossproject.com - Via instagram @whlpnetwork  The link to the YouTube Video I spoke of in the podcast: What Caused My Hair Loss?

An update on my experience with PRP is long overdue, and over the last couple months I have tried to record a segment on this, each time only finding that I was left with a question mark and a position of inaction and indecisiveness as to how to continue forward. I found myself stuck. I was already being confronted with the fact that I was no longer experiencing the same benefit of PRP during the last couple years, as I had in my prior years. My hair loss shedding / decline was occurring more rapidly and after my last treatment in November,  I was actually debating on whether or not the time had home to close the chapter of that treatment in my life.  Well, life changed for us all, choices changed. A week ago I finally decided on how to proceed forward, and provided myself with a plan. There is so much power in making a decision, and taking an action towards that decision. The minute I decided to do so, I instantly found relief within myself. This podcast is definitely one giant clump of a run on thought, it's a little all over the place (so my apologies in advance), but I really wanted to get all my thoughts out to you, about where I have been at with all of this. Visit me online via my website: womenshairlossproject.com and also via instagram @whlpnetwork

Jan 1st of this year Ricki Lake came out to the world revealing her secret battle and struggle with hair loss that she had been dealing with for nearly 30 years. I met Ricki in 2012, she had joined my site, The Women’s Hair Loss Project, in search for help, support and understanding. We connected through hair loss.  I am so honored to be able to be joined by Ricki, from her home in Marina De Rey, for this episode of my podcast. It was an unbelievable privilege to sit down with her and listen to her tell her story as she shares how her hair loss started and takes us along for an inside and intimate look at what it was like dealing with hair loss while being in the public eye.  She also shares some never before seen personal footage from from the day she shaved her head, (which you can seen the videocast on my website) and also snippets of documented clips from when she revealed to her boyfriend for the first time (after dating for 20 months) about her hair loss struggle. Spoiler alert, he embraced her with loving and open arms, as any good man would… good news for those women who are concerned about dating and hair loss.  Ricki is truly a beacon of strength, and hope for others, and I am inspired by her courage to be able to step forward, and put a face (a very public face ) to this debilitating and devastating disorder that so many women like myself have had to deal with and often having to have done so suffering in silence.  Ricki Lake’s Documentary Site: https://www.thebusinessof.life And on instagram: @rickilake Visit me online via my website: womenshairlossproject.com and also via instagram @whlpnetwork

I am joined again by Joe Tillman, The Hair Transplant Mentor to discuss the validity of Low Level Laser Light Therapy and PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) Therapy for the treatment of hair loss.  I have personally chosen to never try low level laser light therapy for my hair loss and discuss my reason for that, however, over the years I have heard some women say they received some benefit and others say they received none.  I have been doing PRP Therapy since November 2009 with Dr. Joseph Greco in Sarasota Florida. Side note, I live in Los Angeles and have chosen to take the trip from LA to Sarasota (with no direct flights) to see him every 4-5 months for this treatment (not sure that's the exact prescribed timeframe to go for treatment, but it’s what I felt made me feel most comfortable). I have personally have found value in this treatment, but like I mentioned above with LLLT, I’ve also heard from women who have felt they received no benefit at all. As with all therapies, our bodies are unique in how they respond, and if they respond at all.  Joe shares his knowledge and insight on these two very popular treatments often being promoted online.  It’s important we have all the information needed before we can decide whether or not we want to try any hair loss treatment. Joe Tillman is The Hair Transplant Mentor, he has been working in this industry for 18 years, helping both men and women that are considering hair transplant surgery. He was one of the first people to ever document his hair transplant journey beginning March 18, 2002. Eventually what was his passion became his career, and he is now a full time independent guide for both patients and clinics. Joe is also the co-host of Spencer Kobren’s The Bald Truth, which airs Fridays Live 5pm EST on his YouTube Channel To learn more about Joe Tillman, visit his website: https://www.hairtransplantmentor.com Visit me online via my website: womenshairlossproject.com and also via instagram @whlpnetwork

In this episode I am joined by Joe Tillman, The Hair Transplant Mentor, to discuss the topic of women and hair transplant surgery. Do women actually make good candidates for this procedure? It is my understanding based on my what I’ve read over the years, and also based on the experience I have with my own type of hair loss - female pattern baldness aka androgenetic alopecia, that women like myself are NOT candidates for hair transplant surgery. I wanted to dive deeper into this topic and get the facts from an expert, so that women can be empowered and educated when making decisions on treating their hair loss.  While I wasn’t surprised to hear that in Joe’s opinion, 90% of women are not candidates for hair transplants, I got educated in learning about which procedure would be preferable for a woman if she was in fact a candidate, the controversial industry topic of Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) vs Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) for women's hair restoration surgery. In this episode, Joe will discuss all the reasons why 90% of women are not candidates for this procedure, and he will also discuss the other 10% of women that could potentially be a viable candidate. Joe Tillman is The Hair Transplant Mentor, he has been working in this industry for 18 years, helping both men and women that are considering hair transplant surgery. He was one of the first people to ever document his hair transplant journey beginning March 18, 2002. Eventually what was his passion became his career, and he is now a full time independent guide for both patients and clinics. Joe is also the co-host of Spencer Kobren’s The Bald Truth, which airs Fridays Live 5pm EST on his YouTube Channel To learn more about Joe Tillman, visit his website: https://www.hairtransplantmentor.com  Visit me online via my website: womenshairlossproject.com and also via instagram @whlpnetwork

Diane Williamson is a full time voice over talent professional for Fortune 500 companies, phone systems and also broadcast. She is a veteran hair wearer and deals with Alopecia Universalis (total hair loss, from eyebrows, eyelashes, to leg hair).  Diane has been following my Facebook page since 2012, and has been a tremendous support to myself and other women dealing with the incredibly difficult affliction of hair loss.  Dealing with Alopecia Universalis since the 80’s, she discusses dealing with hair loss and hair wearing, while working in the very public industry of broadcast reporting. Diane has dealt with hair loss and searching for hair, during a time period where information was even less prevalent and accessible, than when I started my own journey. She has experienced total hair loss, transitioning into wearing wigs in the workplace, and dealing with the devastating emotional impact of hair loss in all aspects of her own life. She has battled through and as I like to call it, “made it to the other side, where there is life after hair loss.” It is a thing, it does exist. Her story is inspiring and I absolutely loved speaking with her.  Please join us for this episode, while we discuss her hair loss journey, and as she shares her knowledge and insight to people dealing with hair loss now.  You have visit me online via my website: www.womenshairlossproject.com and also via instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whlpnetwork/