"I Think Being Bald Is Beautiful"

I thought long and hard about this particular hub and I felt like if I can help any women going through what I went through with my hair.Then it would be worth me putting myself out on front street. I'm writing this hub to maybe help those women that might have lost quite a bit of their hair from some form of alopecia or hereditary hair lost problem. I fit into this category unfortunately. I am true women, and beautiful in my own rites but unfortunate for me the glory that I'm suppose to have no longer exist. I suffered from deep depression for many years and didn't know at the time that it causes hair lost. Then after going through menopause. I realized I had lost more hair.Then to top it all off, my mother's father side of the family had a hereditary hair lost problem. So, I was batting one thousand hits. If I had known all the information that I now have access too I would have done many things differently with my hair. I wouldn't have gotten it cut off at the barber as many times as I did or even used to many chemicals on my hair. The damages has been done and it's to late to cry over losing my glory.

This is not funny but one day I Looked up and after the hair cutting episodes, the chemicals, the depression and menopause./ I realized my hair had left town without notice. I was hurt and I didn't understand the reasons for it. I realized I that I had lost my hair and not my life. So I did a quick regroup and went out and bought me some human hair wigs and went on to live my life without my hair. I had noticed that some men with baldness, or hair lost problems opt to shave their heads and one day the idea came to me to do the same. Shaving my head became an obsession. I thought about it a lot and on day, I got up enough courage to ask my husband how would he feel about me shaving my head. Since he already knew I didn't like the way my hair was on my head. He told me that he didn't have a problem with it, but I should wait until after winter. That day I loved my husband even more. You see, having a patchwork hair style was embarrassing to me. I wore a do rag on my head most of the time but the thought of having my hair shave off evenly made me feel comfortable.

I did it and I was able to be bald, be comfortable and not be embarrassed anymore. I learned that hair doesn't make you who you are. It just add to the complete package. So, for my husbands sake, and when I want to be prim and proper I bought up an assortment of wigs in different colors and styles. If there is anyone out there that is suffering from this hair problem I understand the problem very well and I'm happily dealing with it... the best I know how. I don't want you to feel sorry for me because I have a wonderful husband and a family that loves me, even with my bald head.

Benny Faye Douglass (c) copyright 2010