WE DON'T JUST TRANSFORM WOMEN'S HAIR LOSS WE CHANGE LIVES Laura's Trichotillomania Story
Wearing a hair system has made my life more enjoyable
“I hardly even think about my hair, just get up in the morning and go. There are so much more important things in life!”
Laura’s trichotillomania story began when she was six.
It went on for years throughout school and during university. During her teens and early twenties she was very self-conscious about having patchy hair, but the compulsion to pull her own hair out proved too powerful.
“At times I have been almost completely bald. Can you imagine pulling thousands of hairs out, one by one? But it’s like someone telling you that you’re never allowed to scratch an itch ever again. You just forget, and you do it and end up feeling cross with yourself and thinking ‘What’s wrong with me?’ all of the time.
I avoided anything that meant getting my hair wet and remember being petrified of rain because then all my hairspray would come out and you’d see all the spiky bits of my hair – because that’s how it grows back. Or I’d be walking past a bus and thinking the people on the top deck would see that my hair was really thin.
There were lots of things I avoided doing – anyone touching my hair, being around friends who were doing hairstyles and being on edge if people were talking about hair. I even avoided my graduation because I didn’t want to wear the mortar board, which would have meant having to take my hair out of a ponytail.”
Laura says Trichotillomania took over her life.
Then one day she found Hair Solved on the internet and became one of our very first clients. The Enhancer System proved to be the perfect hair solution for her. Instead of battling to overcome the urge to pull her hair, she can relax and get on with life.
“Wearing a hair system has made my life more enjoyable. It’s so nice to get up in the morning and go out how you are. I’ve got more confidence and focus on things other than hair!
It’s human hair so I can straighten it, curl it and do what I want with it, just like you would your own hair. I regularly go swimming now with my daughter, but before I wouldn’t have done. My daughter has fair hair, so I might try and match her when I have my next system fitted. I usually go for reds, but that’s all part of the fun really!” People are always saying ‘I love your hair colour, how do you do that?”
Laura finds she only needs a completely new system fitted every three years and found Hair Solved to be far more reasonable than other solutions.
“The bills from the company I used to go to were horrendous. They charged by the 5 minutes, so it meant that I would even be thinking that I didn’t want to go to the toilet. Hair Solved have been a million times better in that sense… they’ve got different ways you can pay. They definitely try to help people, whereas I think with some other companies it’s more about your money.”
Laura’s journey with Hair Solved continues and having adopted the Enhancer System for more than 12 years, she has shaved her head completely and is now experimenting with the Enhancer Flexi – our new solution for total hair loss.
To talk to us about how the Enhancer System or Enhancer Flexi could be the right hair solution for you, call us on 0800 065 4501 or complete our quick and simple contact form.