A (Not So) Hairy Situation

One of the more annoying effects of alopecia that can develop is a lack of eyebrows.  When I first started noticing that my normally rather thick brows were looking a bit sparse, I told my mom, but she brushed it off, saying that she couldn’t see a difference. I, who spends probably far too much time examining my face and my scalp to check for hair loss or growth, on the other hand, absolutely knew something was off, and within a few months time, I had a freshly eyebrow-less face.  To be frank, losing my eyebrows hurt worse than losing my hair. I can rock a bald/shaved head, but without eyebrows? It took a lot of time to get used to this new person in the mirror.  I started trying to figure out how to do my eyebrows myself, in a relatively un-make up savvy house. Word of advice: gel eyeliner does not belong anywhere near your brows, especially when you are first learning. Wet n’ Wild Khol liner, you did the best you could, you really did.  After some rather cringe ex...

In all honesty, I have really enjoyed not having to put on my face and wear a hat every day.  As much as our current situation is rather undesirable, it's been a nice reprieve from the day to day tasks I put up with in efforts to look "normal."  I feel like it's a lot easier to be nicer to yourself when you don't have to constantly fight other people's opinions of you. The little side glances you get in public or the pitying looks just ain't it sometimes.  In terms of regrowth, personally, quarantine has been a nice chunk of time for some of my hair to come back. It had been hinting that it may start growing back for a while, but now I can proudly say I have effectively formed a mullet of sorts, with my new shorter hair on the top of my head and the older, longer hair in the back. Now, I got all the Southern boys jealous.  It has also given me time to devote time to myself and actually start practicing effective self care. One of my friends and I were talk...