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...

We changed our web server guys and they added a feature; readers can send me comments. I just noticed it. I am very touched by all the very sweet things that you all have said. And here I thought that my posts were going the way cuniform clay tablets, to be dug up in the distant future. Please let me know your thoughts. They are welcome and appreciated.

When we make a custom wig or piece one of the variables is colour. This can be tricky. In the case of a woman with high lights we usually pick one or two ‘base’ colours and then do what a woman would normally do – namely get it highlighted (or foil lighted). It is important to nail it.  

In an earlier post I talked about a booklet that my father wrote back in the 60’s. One of the subject’s he talked about was “REMMI” hair. Back then, remmi hair was defined as a bundle of human hair that had all of its cuticles, or scales, going in the same direction. All the roots were at one end, and all the tips at another. This made sure that the...