Like most people, I Hate My Hair. At my age and with my bone structure, a short, full 'do would look best—but my hair is fine, and straighter than the road to perdition; looks more “Alfalfa” than “Audrey Hepburn” when cut short (right now it’s shoulderlength, but I wear it up in a chignon).
I’m thinking of getting it cut short and buying a “hair yarmulke,” something like this or this, for fullness. Anyone have any experience with these things, or wig/hairpiece stories to share?
Just chiming in to say I like the second one better…
I just had my hair cut into one of those short full 'dos … I was trying not to look like my mother! For the first time in 17 years I like my hair.
I think you can smooth them down or pouf them up as you like them—I might even go to a hairdresser and get it thinned-out if it’s too Eighties Huge Hair.
I haven’t used one yet, but I’m thinking about it. My MIL (who is balding) wore one to FIL’s funeral and it looked very nice. My SIL also wears one quite a bit. It looks absolutely darling. She has long hair and wears it kind of up with the yarmulke. Very cute.
“Sophie! What have you done to your hair? It looks like a wig!”
“It is. All my hair fell out.”
“Oh. It looks so natural, you’d never know!”
Both of those look really nice. I wear a wig on a regular basis (no hair to use in an integration piece due to alopecia universalis - total loss of body hair), so I’ve had lots of experience. A synthetic is a good choice because it will save you time in not having to style it much, and will bounce back to its style after washing. I’d recommend getting their color wheel so you get the best match for you. And yes, it’s easy to have them trimmed/thinned out a little at your salon if needed.
My mother lost all her hair due to chemotherapy about 5 years ago. She’s now considered cured. Anyway, she tried on a wig or two, but she lost all of her hair so quickly that the wigs always looked funny to her. Going from bald to a full head of hair was just too jarring. She wore a variety of hats and bandanas and got lots of compliments, mostly from people who either knew her well enough to know about that cancer or who could tell by the style of hat that she had cancer(since so few women wear hats routinely). However, there were a few who were both compimentary and clueless about the cancer.
After the chemo ended, her hair started growing back in, and came in very soft and curly- a look known as “chemo-hair” to hairdressers. It was also far more white than it had been. My mother’s hair has been mostly grey and wavy for years, but for a while was almost all white. It is now back to mostly grey.
Anyway, a friend was looking at her hair recently and asked Mom why she didn’t keep it the way it was a few years ago when it was so nice and curly?
Mom had to laugh, either the friend had never understand about chemo-hair or she’d forgotten. At any rate, getting a perm to try to recreate chemo-hair is not something my Mom is willing to do, it violates her principle of “be grateful for what you’ve got”. She’s lost it twice and is happy to have hair at all.
Oh Eve you silly girl. It’s not a wig, but a hair enhancement. 
If you look half as good as you do in those pictures you posted on the boards then, by golly, you don’t need it. But whatever makes you feel happy you should do. 
I don’t have any wig stories unfortunately but I do have outrageous hair. Everyone calls it ginger but it’s really more of a copper and worse yet it is naturally fluffy, I mean real fluffy, like strange cute animal funny. I wake up in the morning and it’s like DOING! fluffy.
Is that any good?
Okay … colour me clueless … but I don’t understand how those ‘enhancers’ work? As in, how are they different from wigs?
S.
Go the Dom Irrera route (paraphrased):
“If I go bald I’m going to buy the cheesiest toupee I can find. One with a chin strap and the price tag still attached and I dare any mother f**ker to say anything about it.”
Well, I’ve never worn one, so I am guessing . . . But I think they are loosely woven “hair yarmulkes.” They only cover the crown of your head; you put them on with combs and pull your own hair through the weave of the hairpiece, and it adds to the fullness.
I hope. Ortherwise it looks like a baby beaver died on your head.
Well, I ordered this one, in dark brown. I got one made of “Fakelon,” as it’s easier to style than human hair and cheaper, so I can experiment with it before deciding if I want to trade up.
I can trust the Brutally Honest Fashion Girls at work to tell me if it looks like a small beaver died on my head.
I think I’m not the only one here that would like some photographic evidence so we too can exclaim, “Ooh!” and “Aah!” and “Mmmm Mmmm”
BTW, what kinda name is Fakelon? They really get to the point don’t they.
Or, “Take off the pillbox hat so we can see the hair! . . . Oh. That is the hair?”
"Fakelon! Now with 15% more Counterfeitium, and extra Frauduline!
…contains no Erudite!
It’s very “you.” I wonder how long it takes to weave your own hair through it? If it’s anything like pulling hair through a frosting cap, I’m out.
Eve, did you consider the hair extensions?
Is a “demi-cap” the same thing as a toupee? :dubious:
That one should look great on you.