ALOPECIA AWARENESS MONTH 2025 – FACING THE CHALLENGES OF LIVING WITH HAIR LOSS
This September’s Alopecia Consciousness Month urges these affected by hair-loss to face collectively to boost consciousness of the impression that alopecia can have on their lives. In help of this 12 months’s initiative “Power in Numbers”, Janet Daly, Co-Director of Mandeville London Wigs and skilled wig maker, supplies an perception into how folks with alopecia can face the challenges of dwelling with hair loss with confidence:
- Personal your expertise: Firstly, please perceive that you just’re not alone! It’s estimated that round 100,000 folks within the UK reside with alopecia. If this determine additionally included all varieties of hair loss, it will rise to hundreds of thousands of individuals. Occasions like Alopecia Consciousness Month are a implausible approach to break down any current stigma round hair loss and create a chance for folks to come back collectively and really feel the heat and energy of the neighborhood. Nevertheless, everybody’s expertise with alopecia is totally different, so bear in mind to share your distinctive story to assist help and empower others.
- Discover you tribe: hair loss is a deeply private challenge and might be troublesome to come back to phrases with. When you’re feeling alone, it may be insufferable. Even when household and mates are empathetic, we all know that individuals have discovered nice consolation in with the ability to discuss frankly and overtly to our group of specialists. Worries, hopes and fears shared confidentially with hair loss specialists together with trichologists and wig makers will help folks to really feel “unburdened” and be the beginning of a constructive journey to discovering an answer.
- Put on it your means: there’s completely no “proper or fallacious” with regards to what type folks with alopecia select to put on. Many individuals really feel assured exhibiting their hair loss and rightly declare their pure magnificence. Others really feel that in some conditions their self-confidence improves when sporting a custom-made wig or hairpiece. For instance, by combining conventional practices, unique supplies, and revolutionary strategies with the best pure European hair, our wigs might be tailored to folks’s pure type. Hair items might be straight, waved or curly, and hand blended to match the fitting color, texture and size. A very powerful factor is that help is there for folks to make an knowledgeable alternative, that’s proper for them.
Janet provides:
“We’ve held the palms of hundreds of individuals by way of their hair loss journey on account of alopecia, so we all know it isn’t nearly dropping hair. For a lot of it’s a traumatic lack of management, identification, femininity/masculinity, and the worry of not recognising your self within the mirror. Over the past 5 many years, we’ve discovered the significance of with the ability to seem like your self throughout this difficult time, even whenever you don’t really feel prefer it. Not solely does this present reassurance for your self, but additionally for these round you – particularly for youthful members of the family.”
Alopecia Consciousness Month goals to boost consciousness and funds for Alopecia UK: Power in Numbers – Alopecia Consciousness 2025
