Laura

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Laura

So, why do I want to share this video with you? I want to share this video with you because it's been a year, it's been a year since I started losing my hair. Alopecia is, I'm sure many of you know what Alopecia is but Alopecia is when you lose your hair in random parts of your head, and they are just so random. Mine concentrated mainly at the back, but the first patch was right at the top here and started getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And I just wanted to share with you what it's like having Alopecia, and the kind of struggles that I deal with daily, and also a wonderful solution that I've found, temporarily, while my hair is growing back.

So, ok, what's the hardest thing about having Alopecia? The hardest thing, of course, is the change in your image, you know. I've never had to think about that before; you really have to dig deeper in terms of finding a new confidence within yourself, just telling yourself that you're beautiful but not in the obvious way, but, it's kind of hard to put into words, but really just digging deeper to find a new beauty to life and a new beauty to yourself. That can't be achieved in your hair, and it's just so, for women especially, so crazy how a lot of your beauty is in the hair - your physical beauty. So that was definitely hard for me, of course the anxiety of what people might think about me - which I know is so strange, I mean I've never thought like that before because I've always been someone who's not cared about what people have thought about me, but Alopecia has definitely taught me a lot about myself.

What is the biggest thing that I've learned, in terms of having Alopecia is to be patient with yourself - if you have Alopecia be patient with yourself. You're not going to get the hair routine right every day, I mean I feel like I must have had a thousand suggestions of how I can help my hair grow, but in the end of the day you just have to be patient with yourself; you have to be patient to wait until the hair grows back. And you've just got to keep smiling, you've got to keep going, but also take time to acknowledge your feelings and to acknowledge the emotions because it is something that you see, you can feel every single day, it's somethng that you're wary of every single day. You know every morning you're thinking "How am I going to cover this up? Is it going to be a wig? Is it going to be a scarf?" But in the end of the day what Alopecia has taught me is that, first and foremost I have to feel comfortable with myself, and ask what I feel comfortable with.

Yeah. so like I said I had no idea that the Lucinda Ellery salons existed. I think it's an amazing solution - temporary solution or even a permanent solution for some, but for mine it's a temporary solution until all the hair grows back. You know the system that they use is just incredible - I've never felt so comfortable, I almost don't even feel the hair on my head. I used to have long dark brown hair, it was wavy and I showed them a picture of the kind of hair that I wanted and they were able to do it. I won't go into all the detail about all the different systems but it's just provided such a great temporary solution until my hair is grown back. It's given me so much joy and also given me so much peace and I'm not so stressed out any more about the way I look because they've done it in such a way that I just look so real and I look so perfect and I don't have to worry and my hair is done within like, you know, a few minutes. And I can just walk straight out the door.

Ta da! This is my new hair system. It's currently just clipped in at the moment and when my hair's long enough they'll integrate the whole thing in with the hair that's there. But it's just an amazing amazing system. Thank you Lucinda Ellery for taking the time and patience. It's just so amazing to be able to just walk out the house and I only spend about 5 minutes putting this in. It just feels so natural, it feels like my hair, the way my hair used to be, so thank you. Thank you thank you thank you.