topper wig: How to manage vacations with family or friends

Are you about to go on holiday with family and friends and are you wearing a hair hair topper or wig? 😱😱😱

If they are unaware of this and you have planned to live together for a few days or weeks, this can be a major source of stress for you, which is completely understandable. I regularly receive messages from women facing this delicate situation. In this article, you will find all my advice on how to deal with the situation calmly 😊

First scenario: You REALLY don't want to talk about it!

If you have your own room, which I recommend if you really don't want to discuss the subject with your family, you can simply remove the product when you go to bed and put it back on in the morning when you wake up. If people are polite, they shouldn't enter your room unexpectedly while you're sleeping. And even if they did, I don't think they would be analyzing your hair at that moment. I would still recommend storing the product in a drawer just in case, because if someone comes face to face with the beast, they may quickly figure it out (in addition to being frightened by the sight of the fox 🦊😉).

If you don't have your own room, I would advise you to sleep with the product. It won't be the most comfortable thing because of the clips that you will feel a little bit, but it is still possible to sleep with a hair topper or a wig. I've done it myself on unexpected naps and it works fine.

Then, for the rest of the day, you can go to the pool or the beach with your hair topper or wig. However, I would advise against putting your head under water. It's best to avoid this, as the structure might show a little more when the hair is wet.

Second case: You are hesitant to talk about it.

If you are going on vacation with friends or family, these are theoretically people who are close to you and who love you. In this case, I can only advise you to discuss the subject of topper wig with them before you leave. If the people you are going on vacation with are prepared to criticize you if you expose one of your vulnerabilities, I can only advise you not to go on vacation with this type of person anymore.

However, I am not so black and white, and I fully understand that you may not always be so close to the people you go on vacation with (in-laws, your partner's friends, etc.). But these people, with whom you are close enough to agree to live in close quarters for several days, can get to know who you really are. It's not up to you to hide yourself or put yourself under pressure 24/7 to be accepted or avoid possible negative judgment.

I know that it is not necessarily obvious and that it takes time to be ready for it. Because of my work, my family-in-law and my partner's friends have learned that I wear a hair topper, even though I wouldn't necessarily have told them spontaneously. So I sometimes found myself in situations where people not so close to me knew about my problem when I would have preferred to avoid it. But I quickly realised that this was actually liberating for me.

So maybe the fact that I'm wearing a hair topper has been commented on. I'm pretty sure they did. Maybe the remarks were negative, maybe not, I'll never know. But that's not the point. The important thing is that I feel free to wear the topper or not, when I want to or not.

At the very beginning, I also forced myself to wear my hair topper in front of my family. Even though they all knew I was wearing one. But then I was afraid to take it off a few weeks later, when I was invited to a dinner party or something, and to shock their eyes if from time to time I allowed myself to come "without hair", or rather with 3 times less hair. However, my family has seen me with my alopecia for 30 years, so I don't think they would have been so shocked after all.

But after a while, I realised that I didn't have to decide whether or not to wear the hair topper based on other people's opinions. I wear it primarily for myself, when I want to feel more beautiful. And if sometimes I don't feel like wearing it, I'm happy to avoid this constraint. And it doesn't matter if people notice it, say that my alopecia is shocking etc.

What matters is how we feel, not how others see us. Believe me, people don't think about us when they're doing their hair in the morning, so why should we?

The hair topper should not lock you up, but free you!

A hair topper or wig should not be a product that locks you in, that makes you hide and that puts you under duress.

There are women who, once they start wearing topper, no longer dare to go out without it. I'm sure many of us go through this phase at the beginning. I know that what we want to avoid in these cases is, above all, people noticing that there are times when we wear a topper a wig.

First of all, people won't notice the difference. I know that may sound unbelievable, but having experienced it every day, I can assure you it's true! But let's say that someone who is very observant notices that you have less hair on the weekend than during the week. What you need to try to tell yourself, and it takes time to do this, is that it doesn't matter.

The person notices that you have a hair topper or a wig, so what? You lose your hair, you wear a hair supplement. Like thousands of women in France and elsewhere! You should not live your life and put constraints on yourself depending on how others look at you. The hair topper or the wig is when YOU want it. When you want to feel more beautiful. You do it for yourself, not for others.

All this is easy to say, I know. It takes time to get into this mindset. It may take a few months, or even a year or two, before you feel ready to live more freely with your hair your alopecia. But the sooner you get there, the better you will feel.

You will also find that as you become more familiar with the product in your daily life, you will find it less and less shameful and taboo. And once you have fully accepted the product, you will feel ready to live more freely with it. Only when you understand that there is no shame in wearing this wonderful solution will you feel ready to talk about it or to stop wearing it in front of your loved ones.

Be proud of who you are!

Women who wear extensions are not ashamed to wear them. If women with alopecia feel ashamed to wear hair replacement products hair talk about them, it is because they subconsciously believe that they are trying to hide something. But if you tell people openly that you are losing your hair and therefore wear a product that helps you feel better, there is no longer any shame or judgment.

Because you accept who you are: a pragmatic woman who finds solutions to her problems! You are not a woman who hides or feels ashamed. You are a woman who moves forward, who dares to seek solutions that are not necessarily the most obvious because of possible social judgment. You should be proud of who you are, of the milestone you have achieved, even though it is still a fairly taboo subject.

If you don't feel ready to talk about it today, that's okay. Be kind to yourself and don't force things. Don't talk about it until you feel truly ready to do so. You have to want to do it, and it has to come from you. But keep in mind that if the people around you are close to you, they will accept you as you are.

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