Last Friday I had a consultation with a woman who came to see me from out of province. She had been in email contact with one of my clients who she found on the web and since she was coming to Toronto for a conference she called ahead to see me about her thinning hair. She had classic female pattern thinning and had tried everything. We talked about her hair...

Stock shipments can be like a box of chocolates. (You know where this is going right?) When you are dealing with people on the other side of the world sometimes the slightest miscommunication can spell disaster. Fortunately disasters are rare. Quite possibly because Continental Hair has been working with roughly the same people for years and that I fly over to meet with them on a regular basis. One of...

We have a new office manager here at Continental. Her name is Mary and she is terrific. She has had a lot of experience doing this, and doing it for surgeons, so she is fitting right in very quickly. She has quite the demanding job. She not only handles what I call the ‘front desk’ with the phones and the scheduling and the register. But she also takes care of...

I had three clients come to see me on Saturday. These women have been clients for a long time so it is always great to see how things are moving along in their lives. They all have thinning hair caused by androgenetic alopecia. The first one was someone that I had not seen in years. She came in with her mother, like she did the first time three years ago....

A long time ago there was a hair designer in Toronto. One day a client walked in and told him of her appointment with a dermatologist. Okay, I’ll drop the fairy tale style. But this did really happen. My client was in her 20’s back then. She was very young and very attractive and still in school. But she had been thinning since she was in her late teens and...

When we talk about hair loss it is often in the context of how to survive it, to recover from it, or deal with the physical and emotional impacts of it. However, hair loss can actually be viewed as an opportunity to reinvent yourself. Jennifer Lopez, eat your heart out! Think about it. Many women simply accept the hair they were born with and remain confined to the colour, texture...