Insider Debate: Toupee or Not Toupee?

It's highly unlikely that you would walk around wanting to tell random people that you wear your hair. After all, you've spent so much effort in creating that 'undetectable' look. It would be like a Stealth Bomber covering itself in fancy Christmas lights.

But IF you did tell people, how would you describe it? What would you call it? A hair system? A hairpiece? A toupee?

Chances are, if you DID have to explain it - you would call it a hair system to someone who didn't know anything about them, just like I did to someone at dinner the other day. It sounds better, more advanced, and maybe just a bit more acceptable than 'toupee'. There's science involved.

But to all the pros who wear them, we refer to them as either hairpieces or simply, pieces. Why? Because we're all in the same boat, we're all the same, and we all know the game. So we cut the bull, knowing full well that we won't be judged negatively by people just like us.

What's your experience?

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Hair System Density: How much is too much? (Pt.1)

Den wrote:

Since I was about 28 my hair looked like it was thinning at the front and stayed like that for years so I got use to it if you know what I'm on about . So when they cut a new system in it just looks like loads of hair to me. What was your hair like before you started wearing?

Do you remember the first time you got your piece?....Wow, what a strange experience. I remember driving to my appointment to get my hair system cut in with my normal, balding, hair style. That meant hair at the sides, and a bit of fluff on top max. I had a proper runway up there. Air traffic control sometimes used to ask if planes could make an emergency landing on my dome. Apologies to any I turned down, hope you made it.

When I walked out, I had a full thick head of hair and I looked 15 years younger easily. You'd think that I would have been happy about it. I wasn't. I was completely and utterly FREAKED OUT that it was way too much hair, and way too 'over the top' (see the pun?). I mean, I could see that it looked good, but it just wasn't...well...ME. I remember driving home at well over 100 mph, and actually HIDING my face from other motorists (who were in their own cars, doing their own thing, and couldn't care less) just in case they would catch a glimpse of me as I whizzed past and would suddenly burst out laughing,

"Did you SEE that guy's PIECE?!"

"Yeah! But it wasn't a piece, it was a RUG!"

"No wonder he's driving so fast...poor guy."

When I arrived at my friend's house, I sat in my car for at least 10 minutes, super freaked about what he would say. I was so fragile at that point, that even a small smirk from him would have wrecked me on the spot.

"Cool. Wanna play Xbox?" he asked.

And that was it.....

I gradually got used to it, and slowly but surely would creep outside and allow the world to see me in my new guise. Amazingly, no one gave a hoot. And then I realised what that meant: Nobody noticed. And that was good thing....

These days, even when I get new hair systems cut in, I still feel that sense of "more hair" than I'm used to. It's only natural that after you've been wearing your old piece for a few months, hair comes out and it gets a bit thinner. Then the new piece looks full again.

So what is the best method for making sure that hair system density is as correct for you as it should be? Read Pt. 2

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