Elevate Magazine / Spring 2006 / Big Wig Big Wig By Chantel Simmons Former soap star Amy Gibson creates wigs for the girl on the go. Nearly 35 per cent of Canadian women suffer from hair loss. Until recently, wearing a wig to cover balding due to alopecia or cancer-related therapies meant looking like you were wearing a wig. Former soap star Amy Gibson has been bald since she was...
Elevate Magazine / Winter 2007 / Reader Tested: At a loss… & Perfect Fit Reader Tested By Celina Harrison, Elevate Reader Three years ago, I was losing my hair. Now, my new hair is better than natural! It was just over three years ago that I caught a glimpse of myself in a security camera and noticed the hair on the back of my head was thinning. Soon afterward, people...
Sunnybrook Foundation News / April 2008 / volume 3, Issue 1 Continental Hair is helping patients to look and feel better at Odette Cancer Centre Over 50 years ago, Peter and Emma Suba established Continental Hair, retailing the finest quality custom and ready-made human hair and synthetic wigs for thousands of clients across Canada. Their son, Michael, who now manages two locations of Continental Hair, had not planned on following...
Elevate Magazine / Spring2008 / Raising the Brow Raising the Brow By Marissa Ponikowski Often ignored, seldom appreciated, your eyebrows can make or break your look. Here’s how to make yours bold and beautiful. This season, thicker brows are in. Those blessed with a generous set can skip the wax and lightly pluck, comb and groom their way to stylish symmetry, but what about those who simply don’t have much...
Beauty Match / October 3, 2008 Cancer is a major reason why so many women visit Michael Suba’s Continental Hair Studio, but a large portion of his clients are women dealing with different stages of thinning hair. There are three types of hair loss (aka: alopecia) Alopecia Areata: patches of hair missing on the scalp and body Alopecia Totalis: baldness of the scalp only Alopecia Universalis: baldness of the scalp...
Wigs are an important part of the recovery for many women who lose their hair because of cancer treatments. Women have such an emotional connection to their hair, and I cannot imagine how emotionally traumatizing it must be for cancer survivors who have to deal with the reality of their hair loss. Michael’s family has been in the wig business since 1964 when his parents, a couple of hairdressers, decided...
