I have been getting many women coming in lately telling me that human hair is really difficult and high maintenance. I understand that this is something that has been said for decades and I believe it comes down to three major sources. The first is that most people working with wigs do not sell really nice human hair. Really nice human hair, either virgin or processed, is really easy to...

Many years ago I was walking a couple blocks from here, right in front of the flowers shops on Avenue Road, and I ran into a friend of mine. He and I had lived a couple of blocks from each other, gone to Jesse Ketchum Junior High, played hockey and ultimate etc. You know, neighbourhood stuff.

So I get an email from my sister who lives in Calgary. She says that a friend of hers from junior high (!!) facebooks her asking if her family still has a connection to that wig store in Yorkville. The reason is that this woman’s-mother’s-friend is going through chemo and would like to have a nice wig. So my sister emails me and asks that I take care of her....

That title got you, didn’t it? If you wish you could just wave a magic wand and get your hair back, read on to protect yourself from consumer fraud in the hair loss industry.

I watch way too much T.V. Notice that I even capitalize it. But one thing about watching a lot of it is that you know what a lot of other people are watching. I was mentioning this to a good friend of mine, Greg Taylor of Taylormade Hair in San Francisco (as background, he is the guy that invented the vacuum cap). I was talking about how so many companies...

Our hair donation program is one of the oldest in North America. It started about fifteen or so years ago when the Canadian Cancer Society called me up. They were getting a lot of enquiries from people wanting to donate their hair and they wanted to know what could be done with it. I suggested making small-cap wigs for children that needed them. They agreed and we started a very...