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...

Toronto Star / October 17, 2008 When women lose their hair Once a silent tragedy, female hair loss shakes loose research, solutions Emily Mathieu Staff Reporter, Toronto Star Laying flush against Jennifer Morozowich’s scalp is a perfectly concealed device that will cause commotion and confusion. That is, when she passes through a metal detector. “The only thing I hate about the clips is they set off the security alarm at...