Hair Replacement - One Woman's Experiment

By Author: Travis M. Keeler
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Mimi, a 39-year-old single mother from Miami, Florida, wore a nonsurgical hair replacement of some type or another every day since she was a teenager. She had a selection of wigs and clip-in hair extensions, custom made just for her particular hair type, face shape and coloring at the hair replacement studio she jointly owned and operated.

Mimi suffered from Alopecia Areata since she was a little girl and swore when she grew up she was going to help people suffering from hair loss by learning how to create hair replacements that were every bit as natural and beautiful as the real hair they lost. She began to wonder if the intense staring, the rude comments and hair loss discrimination she had been feeling most of her life was all in her head. Her clients reported similar stories and behavior. Just because she felt so normal, so much prettier with her hair replacement on, did that mean that the whole world was kinder and treated her better when she wasn't bald?

She decided to find out with a little experiment. One day she took off her wig and decided to go through ...
... her normal day that way just to see what happened. Her wig was actually a removable hair system, because after all, her family knew of her Alopecia Areata and so she could go without her hair replacement at home. Without her wig she had several large missing patches of hair and the rest of her hair was short and fuzzy. It was not at all attractive in her eyes. But Mimi didn't care because the experiment was to find out if hair replacement made a difference in the eyes of other people. She put on her makeup and her smile, which was beautiful, wig or no wig, and she went about her day of errands and shopping. It was almost as if Mimi forgot all about her hair actually she did forget. And she walked into the first store having forgot that she was not wearing her hair system.

But soon she was reminded. From the moment she went in the store people either looked away from her quickly and avoided her or averted their glaze purposely. Then she remembered that she didn't have her hair replacement on. Mimi needed assistance in finding something in one store and nobody came to ask her if she needed help. When she finally went to seek out the help, the sales associate pretended not to stare at her fuzzy, patchy head all the while staring at it! By the time she left the first store she was already convinced that she needed her hair system to feel accepted in public and that no matter what anybody said, all the confidence and smiling in the world doesn't change the attitude of the general public. She could barely drag herself through the rest of her errands feeling this way and couldn't wait to get home. Worrying about how you look sure can take its toll and people really make it difficult if you stand out in any way. She was grateful for her family and her own collection of hair systems.

The next day, determined to complete her experiment, she worked on her hair system at her hair replacement studio and fitted in on just right. Her custom system was really beautifully made from 100% virgin human hair, cut and styled just perfectly. But it was the way it made her feel beautiful that brought out that smile of hers again. She knew the hair system made all the difference but off she went anyway to prove it at that same store from the day before where the sales associates had ignored her.

Maybe the sales associate was just bad at her job? She had to know for sure. When she walked in the store and into the aisle that associate was working, she walked up to her, smiled, flipped her hair and asked for the same product. The sales associate turned around look her straight in the eye, nodded, smiled and began to lead her to what she was looking for. A totally different experience! In fact, that sales associate never even recognized Mimi in her hair. Point proven! She was grateful for the confidence her hair system gave her and would recommend a hair replacement to anyone who was suffering bald discrimination, real or imaginary.

Author Bio:

Travis M. Keeler is a hair loss expert with specialized knowledge of nonsurgical hair replacement and hair transplant surgery. For more information about the opportunities and pitfalls of hair replacement, please visit: Hair Replacement Video.