The Unspoken Reality of Wearing Hair Systems
October 11, 2023
Hair Replacement for Men
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I spent a whole eight months in this place and no one knew a thing about my hair system. When I look back to this, we're going to be taking a trip down memory lane, guys. We're going to be taking a trip back to when I first started wearing Hair Systems.
I haven't mentioned this for a long time, but I have this condition. It's a chronic condition called fibromyalgia. It's a widespread chronic pain condition. It's very, very unpleasant, affects every part of your body, affects your mobility as well. It's pretty debilitating.
So, I've been through various sort of medical interventions along the way, and one of them was going to an oxygen chamber whereby they sit you in this chamber, they put an oxygen mask on you, and they compress that particular chamber. And according to the science, it has these sort of anti-inflammatory impacts upon your body. It reduces the inflammation, and as a result, hypothetically, your pain should improve.
Now, I started doing this when I first started wearing a hair system, and I was going for like eight months, right? So, I was there for a good amount of time, and I was going like every single week, and I got to know a lot of people there pretty well. And if anyone has been following my channel since the early days, so like 2019, 2020, I think it was 2019 I started this channel, you'll remember that in the early days, I was not great at putting on hair systems, and I did not have the best hair systems because I was new to it, and I was learning on the job. This is perfectly normal, okay?
Not once did anyone ever say to me, "Is there something going on with your hair?" or "Your hair looks a little bit different." Bearing in mind that when I actually started going to this oxygen chamber, I didn't have a hair system. And then I remember about three weeks in, I had my hair system for the first time. And objectively, my hair was thicker. It was fuller. I had a flatter hairline, basically, than I'd had before. But no one said anything.
I do wonder, I'm like, did they... They must have thought something. Obviously, not necessarily hair system or toupee. Could they have thought hair transplant? Could they have thought that somehow my hair had started growing thicker because they've thought I was on minoxidil? I think within this world of hair systems, we seem to think that everyone knows about the same amount of information as we do about these particular interventions, but they really don't. I think when people see stuff like that, they're kind of like, "Well, that looks a bit different, but, you know, maybe he's letting his hair grow out or something like that."
And I got to say back then I didn't have systems like I've got now. You know, back then, I think it was a poly perimeter with a French lace frontal, and it also didn't have bleach knots. Scrutinizing it as heavily as I did back then, I was like, "Yeah, this is definitely pretty obviously fake." But obviously, people who don't wear hair systems don't scrutinize them as closely as we do. We are the ultimate over-scrutinizers. We are the ultimate perfectionists. I think that's probably patterns that we could work on as people because people do not look at our hairline as closely as we do unless they wear a hair system or unless they've had a hair transplant or unless they're super insecure about their own hair and they're checking out everyone else's hairline to compare and contrast to theirs.
What was interesting during that period was I'd actually had a couple of lifts, and back then, I didn't really have the time or the inclination to just glue it down every single time I noticed a lift. I would just go... I'd just sort of push it down. But what I noticed was when I was in the chamber because they put this mask on you and the mask has like straps that go behind your head and it can mess with your hair system a little bit. And I noticed that sometimes I'd be sort of like looking at my phone, and obviously, you can see like a reflection in your phone when the screen is black. And I can actually see lifts in my hairline. But no one said anything to me, and maybe they didn't notice anything, maybe they did.
But a couple of the connections that I made there, I was having very honest conversations with around other stuff, not hair related, but very honest conversations. Do you think they'd actually bring it up if they would have spotted it? They'd have been like, "Oh, you know, your hairpiece is lifted," or, you know, they didn't look, something... something didn't look quite right with your hair and stuff like that. But, you know, none of that happened. If anything, I actually got quite a few compliments.
And I suppose the lesson and the moral of this story is people don't scrutinize as heavily as we do. Probably because they're thinking about other things. Probably their priority isn't looking at how realistic our hairline looks or about our hair in general. They're probably thinking about other stuff relating to them. So that's the lesson here, guys. Don't worry so much about what you think other people might be making of what your hair's looking like because the chances are they're probably not even paying attention.
And if you have a lift, don't sweat. Just put your hair down. If it's up, put it down and leave it down until you've sorted the lift. I had it up when I had a lift. Still, no one made a comment about it. But in hindsight, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, experience with wearing these wigs.comes experience. And, you know, if I have a lift now, I just put the hair down for the rest of the day. I get home, I put a bit of glue on. Boom, Bob's your uncle.
Now I'm gonna end this here but let me know, guys, what was your experience when you first started wearing hair pieces? Were you super worried about what people might think? Did anyone say anything to you about your system? Or has it been pretty plain sailing for you? Let me know in the comments below.
Till next time, guys, take care. Bye for now.
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