The Women’s Hair Loss Project

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