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Most women take a pride in their appearance and before they leave the house every morning they take their time doing their hair and fixing their make up. However, when you are losing your hair or your hair is starting to thin, this doesn’t mean that you are any less of a woman.

One of the main worries and concerns of women who have lost or are losing their hair is that they won’t be feminine anymore and that there must be something wrong with their femininity which would explain why they are experiencing female hair loss. However this is not the case.

There are many reasons why women lose their hair and for some it can be a stressful or emotional experience that they have gone through. For others it can be a hormonal change in their body. Whatever type of hair loss that you are suffering with and whatever may have caused it, you won’t be any less of a woman because of it.

In order to make you feel more feminine, you might want to consider some of the many hair replacement treatments that are available. There are human hair wigs as a temporary measure or hair replacement therapy for situations when hair loss is permanent.

Alopecia can happen to anybody regardless of his or her age or health and in some instances the alopecia is caused by a stressful or emotional experience. There are many different forms of alopecia and most kinds don’t mean that you just lose the hair on your head. Some people also experience losing their eyebrows and other body hair as a result.

Both men and women can suffer with alopecia and it can be brought on by a number of different factors. Some forms of alopecia are brought on by stress, anxiety and experiences that you are going through, whereas other forms are due to the hormones and chemicals that are going around your body.

Whatever type of alopecia that you have, you need to speak to your doctor to ensure that you have alopecia and find out what type of the disease you are suffering with. They will make sure that you are put on the right medication and are receiving the right treatment. Your GP may also refer you to a specialist at the hospital so that you can get further treatment if required.

Your alopecia will soon start to disappear once you are receiving the right treatment and you take control of your hair loss.

When you take pride in your hair, there is nothing worse than finding out that you are beginning to lose your hair. Hair loss amongst women is more common than you might think and there are a number of reasons why women lose their hair.

Whatever reason you might be losing your hair, you don’t need to despair. In most instances of female hair loss there is a treatment available that will considerably improve your hair loss and hopefully bring all of your hair back.

If you are experiencing hair loss, as well as taking medication prescribe to you by your doctor, you might also need to take a look at your quality of life and ensure that you don’t have any unnecessary stress going on from your job or your home life. Stressful situations or events can bring on hair loss amongst women so it is always best to avoid such situations or find different ways to cope with what you are going through. You may not have realised that the situation has affected you in such a way until you started to notice that your hair is starting to thin or you have small bald patches appearing on your scalp.

You may have seen the pictures of supermodel Naomi Campbell in the press recently, where an obvious bald patch can be seen under her wig as she attends a photo shoot.

Experts and trichologists suggested that this obvious sign of female hair loss was caused by traction alopecia, a condition where the repeated pulling on the scalp causes the hair follicles to weaken and the hair to fall out.

Whether Naomi has this particular condition or not, she is a prime candidate to suffer from it due to the profession she has chosen. As a supermodel, she is constantly required to change her look and this often means different hair styles such as weaves, braids and tight ponytails – all styles that can damage the scalp over time and cause traction alopecia.

It isn’t just supermodels and women in the entertainment industry who can suffer from traction alopecia, however. One famous hairstyle, the tight, high ponytail, termed the ‘Croydon facelift’ due to the way the scraped-back style pulls the skin on the face upwards, is particularly bad for hair follicles.

If you regularly choose to wear your hair in any of the aforementioned styles, take care that you don’t fall victim to traction alopecia. Ask yourself: is it really worth losing your long, luscious locks over a hairstyle?

Your mother or grandmother might have thinning hair but you have always put it down to their age and their genetics, however you have never thought it would happen to you until you started to notice that your hair was no longer as thick as it used to be and you are no longer able to style it the way that you like it.

Many women find female hair loss a difficult thing to come to terms with because it isn’t something that is openly talked about amongst women and it is very common to see men who are going bald.

All women can experience hair loss at some point during their lifetime but some are more at risk for certain types of hair loss than others if it has been experienced in the family in the past. This doesn’t automatically mean that you are going to suffer with it but it does mean that you need to get your hair checked out if you notice anything remotely different about it or you notice that you are experiencing thinning of the hair or noticeable bald patches. Your doctor will be best placed to give you some advice and they can advise on the necessary steps to take in order to get your hair back.

There are many female celebrities who have suffered with hair loss whilst they have been famous and they have told the world why they are losing their hair. You might remember Gail Porter famously telling everybody that she had alopecia and that it was a rare genetic form of alopecia that she was suffering with.

In more recent times, one of the Nolan sisters has recently been treated for cancer and has a result has lost her hair because of the chemotherapy and radiotherapy that she has been going through.

This is often quite comforting to other women who are also going through the same things in their lives because it feels as though they are not alone. There is nothing worse than when you are suffering with hair loss either as a result of cancer treatment or because of some kind of other female hair that you are on your own and you have nobody to relate to.

You should never feel as though you have nobody to talk to about the female hair loss that you are going through. It would be an appropriate time to talk to the other women in your family or close friends network to discuss female hair loss and how some forms of it can be treated.