Is Your Hairstyle Causing Hair Loss?

Girls with braids, weaves, tight high ponytails. What do they all have in common? They are now being linked to women’s hair loss and CCCA (Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia). These hair styles pull at hair strands and cause inflammation and then scarring. The repeated pulling causes hair loss of CCCA. Although the hairstyles are most popular in African-American women, all females are at risk. Be careful how you wear your hair and remember that a Madcapz women’s hat is always better than any old hairstyle anyway!

Hair Loss Myths

Hair loss is quite common and yet the causes are very misunderstood. Did you know the following are not true:

1) Hair Loss is passed down from your mother’s side

2) If you’re balding, you are old – It can start as young as teenage years.

3) Hats cause hair loss – not true, we love our caps

4) Trauma can cause hair loss

5) Rogaine can prevent hair loss

6) Gel and hairspray are factors in hair loss – not true so ladies we can continue using our favorite brands

7) Exposure to sun causes hair loss

Carbs can lead to hair loss

9) Sexually active individuals go bald first

To read more on hair loss, click here: Women’s Hair Loss

Women’s Hair Loss – Voluntarily

How far would you go to support your friends? Two women from Huddersfield will go to boundaries that most females won’t dare touch; shaving their heads completely bald. Two women, Rachel Newall and Karen Thompson have shaved their heads to support their friend, Adele Marshall, who is diagnosed with cancer. The two women decided to shave their heads after treatment resulted in hair loss for their friend Adele. The friends are doing it to show support for their friend and for lymphoma, the cancer that has afflicted their friend.

To read more, click on the photo below:

What Causes Hair Loss In Women?

In this Chicago Tribune article, several medical conditions related to hair loss in women are discussed. Click on the photo to read the article:

Dealing With Hair Loss

A woman diagnosed with breast cancer decided to regain some of the control the disease had taken from her by shaving her head before she lost her hair to chemotherapy:

We know hair loss from chemotherapy can be difficult, but wearing a Madcapz can make the ordeal a bit easier. Many women wear Madcapz as chemotherapy hats and love the way they look!

Send someone the gift of Madcapz and brighten their day!

Women with Hair Loss – Bald is Beautiful

Madcapz was created because I was suffering from hair loss.  For women, hair loss can be very hard to deal with – it was for me when I began to lose my hair from Grave’s Disease.

Here is an inspiring message from Sharon Blynn, cancer survivor and the founder of Bald is Beautiful, to all women with hair loss.

Click here to hear her message!

The New York Times published a blog about people affected with Alopecia Areata, an autoimmune disorder, that affects one’s hair, often leaving one bald, and without eyebrows and eyelashes. Here what it’s like to live with Alopecia here:

How Kayla Martell lost her hair to alopecia areata-and still went on to win the Miss Delaware crown. A truly inspiring story for women with hair loss.

Brave Beauty

Here’s why looking good can help you feel good while battling cancer. We know wearing  Madcapz helps!

For many people, hair loss is one of the more trying aspects of cancer treatment. But you don’t have to despair. You can go a long way towards boosting your own self-confidence with an educated attitude and some advance preparation.