Hair Pieces- The Best Place To Buy: The Price

Time Involved

Expect to wait a good month for your hairpiece to be custom-made. Remember, there is a great deal of work to be done in making the base, matching and blending the hair, and sewing the strands into the piece. 

You will be required to make only two or three visits to a shop in order to buy a hairpiece: one or two for and a final visit when the hairpiece is completed and ready to be cut and styled on your head. 

The Price

And now for a subject that interests everyone: Just how much does one of these hairpieces cost? 

The prices varies. As stated in an earlier chapter, you can buy the cheapest stock piece available or go the full route and order a custom made. Before making your decision, remember that you are buying something that will become a part of you. It won't be just an ornament or passing fad. It will be your hair. Only you can decide how much value to place on it. 

We are talking about a necessity for a man who is particular about his appearance and who desires to retain his youthful appearance. Good quality hairpieces were once a luxury- available to only the famous and the elite. Today, quality is within the reach of every man who cares about himself. 

Stock pieces with synthetic hair are naturally the least expensive, averaging around $350 for a full piece. Although the quality is not as impressive as in a custom made, there is still a great deal of work that goes into its production. 

Next in range, the semi-custom piece with a guaze or skin base, will run approximately $500 for the standard 5 inch by 8 inch size. Of course, if you are only beginning to bald, you can save money by just ordering a partial. For every inch ordered that is larger than the average size you should expect to pay an additional $50. However, this is required only in extreme balding cases. In fact, adjustments in the design of this type of hairpiece, may even bring the price down somewhat. 

Finally, for the ultimate in hairpieces, the custom-made piece with European hair and a lace base, you will have to pay between $500 and $600 for a full piece (5" by 8"). Again, for extra large pieces $50 will be required for each additional inch. As with any high quality item, the increased durability and effectiveness makes up for the higher price. This fact is especially true where hairpieces are concerned.
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Psychic Healing Hair Restoration

Based on the teachings of Edgar Cayce is a theory that hair can be both restored and retained through positive belief. Advocates of the idea claim that if you follow their program, heredity needn't have the final word on baldness.
Clients are encouraged to undergo weekly or biweekly sessions for an average period of one year, during which time their hair is analyzed, vegetable packs are baked into their hair (to restore its vitality), and shock treatments are administered to their scalps (to step up circulation and nourishment of the cells).
Developers of the process seem quite dedicated to the procedure, but they are the first to admit that if a patron doesn't believe his hair can return, his own mind will keep it from happening. Thus, if the process fails, the operator is relieved of all responsibility. In effect, he can simply admonish the patron by saying: "sorry, it's not my fault! You didn't believe it could work!"
The question here is not whether Edgar Cayce's principles are applicable as a solution to baldness (perhaps they could be!), but rather, whether his latest "followers" are trying to spoof the public. (Perhaps they are!) It is very difficult to determine a person's integrity in an instance such as this. Do not waste your time and money on this type of hair replacement.
David Hansen
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Baldness: Can it be cured?

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Heredity, often the cause

Most family traditions are cherished throughout the years, reproduced by each succeeding generation. Usually customs bring back found memories, reminiscent of the "good old days". But there is one thing that most men would not like to be passed from generation to generation--that is baldness.

The average man dreads baldness. It signifies a time of loss to him: loss of his virile looks, loss of his youth, loss of his ability to impress his co-workers and the opposite sex. In addition, to make his predicament seem an even greater injustice, baldness often strikes his appearance before he inwardly feels the effects of his age. The vim and vigor of a young man are often trapped inside what appears to be an aging man's body.

While baldness id definitely not a deliberate age-old custom, the fact remains that its occurrence follows a steady pattern, sooner or later affecting the majority of men. In fact, it is believed that this repetitive quality-- the heredity factor-- is the number one cause of baldness, responsible for 90% of this nation's thinning scalps.

If your family tree shows a history of baldness, you're likely to inherit the tendency. Of course, there are exceptions, but many believe that if the heredity comes down through your mother's side of the family, chances of you being affected by it are greatly increased.

This heredity baldness begins to take effect at a very early age, usually around the time of puberty. The increased influence of male hormones starts off a chain reaction in the papillae, so that instead of contributing to produce strong and healthy hairs, one after the other begins turning out weaker and less durable fibers. The process is almost undetectable at this early age, but the stage is set. The hairs produced will continue to weaken with maturity, until they no longer have enough strength to remain on the scalp. Finally, a shiny, bald patch is all that remains where hair ounce grew, shiny because the hair is now dead and no longer can perform its functions of absorbing and controlling scalp secretions and oils.

Can anything be done?

For centuries men have searched in vain for the key to baldness, a means whereby it could be stopped or reversed. Modern medicine has not been able to be of much help in this matter. Currently there are no commercially-available drugs which will correct this problem. Hair replacement methods, therefore, are either surgical or mechanical.

However, researchers tell us that an answer may be close at hand. they are aware that androgen are the hormones that affect male growth. The androgens are responsible for nurturing the growth of beard, chest, pubic, and underarm hair. On the other hand, they tend to stop hair growth on the upper scalp of men who have a family tradition of hair loss. Even more puzzling is the fact that they have absolutely no effect upon the fringe hair on the side and the back of a man's scalp. The key to stopping baldness lies in controlling these androgens--preventing them from inhibiting hair growth on the upper scalp, while allowing them to continue their growth stimulation in other areas.

perhaps the solution is close at hand, as scientists claim, but for the present, there is no real "cure" none that can help the man who is balding today. The only solutions available are temporary.

It is believed by some that skin and scalp treatments deter the balding process if administered before thinning becomes excessive. To a certain extent these widely-advertised products are beneficial. They stimulate circulation, stabilize activity on the scalp, and consequently increase the health of the hair. But this is not a permanent answer to the problem. Since most hair loss is due to heredity, this only prolongs the inevitable and in the majority of cases is not even capable of that.

Scalp massage is another avenue recommended by some barbers for patrons who have started to lose their hair. The results are somewhat similar to treatments: the skin and hair are nourished; fat cells are reduced; circulation and glandular activity is increased; and the nerves are soothed and rested. As a result, this can be quite effective in slowing down hair loss. But ounce again, if the tendency to grow bald has been predetermined by one's genes, it is not a permanent solution, no matter how much hope is put into the endeavor.

The fact remains, then, that baldness is a common nuisance that will affect a substantial number of this nation's males. You have only two choices available if you are one of the victims:
(1) Accept your fate and try to make the most of baldness
(2) Fight back by choosing the most appropriate means of hair replacement.

If you are among the fighters, then this blog is dedicated to you.

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More Than Just An Ornament

As men has realized from very early times, a full head of well-cared-for hair can certainly enhance his appearance. It can accomplish a wide range of becoming physical effects from softening the contour of a face to distracting from the lines of age. Psychologically, it is quite significant in influencing the impression others have of a man.

Yet, we do not have hair for adornment alone. It has a far more important significance--that of protection. Hair is found over every area of the body, with the exception of only the palm, soles, lips, and eyelids. It grows for a reason; in fact, for many reasons.

The shorter, bristly hair of the eyebrows protects the eyes by diverting sweat, while the eyelashes function to ward off dust particles and the glare of light.

Helping in the evaporation of body perspiration is a finer, downy-soft hair called lanugo hair, found on the cheeks, forehead, and nearly all areas of the anatomy.

The scalp grows a much longer type of hair. In the absence of at least a partial covering of this hair, its function cannot be carried out. It was intended as a protective coating or padding. It provides thermal insulation against the cold, wind, rain, and serves in an opposite capacity, when required, by offering atmospheric insulation from the heat and direct sunshine. In addition, this hair controls the sweat and secretions of the scalp.

To claim that the desire to retain one's hair, therefore, is merely an expression of vanity, based on social or aesthetic conditioning, is to err greatly. The presence of hair is a definite necessity for a man.

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Introduction To Hair Replacement

"Deprive a lion of his mane, the cock of his comb, the peacock of the emerald plumage of his tail, and ram and deer of their horns, and they not only become displeasing to the eye, but lose much of their power and vigor..."

The above words are more than a century old. They appear in Alexander Rowland's book, The Human Hair, published in England in 1853. He wrote them in support of the opinion that men should be allowed to grow their hair and beards as they wished. Men of previous centuries were often looked down upon and tortured if they refused to conform to the caprice of fashion.

We live in an age that is the freest and most liberal since the creation of Adam, and yet we live in an age where some men, no longer required to fight for their idea of a masculine hairstyle, seemingly have lost all enthusiasm for giving it the attention due it. Is it a fear of being categorized as vain, or has it simply become too much trouble?

Sure, we've come a long way, but not so great a distance that people no longer judge a man by his appearance. The days are gone when man had to cope with taxes or imprisonment for the length of his hair, but the image of ourselves which we present to the world still has some effect on our success in this area.

True, the laws standardizing men's hairstyles have been been abolished for many years, but there will always be a much more significant law in existence--an unwritten law of human nature that a man must care about himself before he can expect others to appreciate him.

We live today in a competitive, youth-oriented world. A man who looks older than his age, because he fails to keep up his appearance, often loses out. No one may admit that to him, but as a rule, the promotion and the girl go to the man who looks as if he could handle them--because he's already shown his associates he could take care of himself.

Generally, a man who succeeds stands out form the others and has a certain amount of class. But class isn't wearing $300 suits and keeping up with the latest technology. Class is knowing how to discretely bring out the best in yourself and in the environment and people who surround you. Class is not worrying about what other people will think about you when you believe you're right. It's not having and hang-ups about doing what is required to honestly improve a situation.

This is about hair and the absence of it. If Mother Nature had intended for men to go through life without a full head of hair, she wouldn't have allowed him to grow his mane in the first place. The purposes of hair are not just social and aesthetic--they are much more serious than that. And thus, the reason for this blog: To facilitate the modern male's endeavor to retain nature's gift (or the look that nature intended for him) for as long as possible.

It begins with bits of trivia and folklore on hair and delves into the facts regarding its growth and life span. The true causes and cures of baldness are explored, as well as methods of hair replacement(not just those offered by me www.davidhansen.com. As I continue writing these blogs the decision will be yours: should I be bald or not.

Make no mistakes about it however. I offer you this blog, not to keep up with the rest of the world, but to enable you to keep up with yourself, with the man inside you who has young ideas and a great deal of life to live, but how may be stifled by an older appearance that fools the rest of the world.

If you think life has dealt you a bad hand as far as your hair is concerned, this is your chance for a reshuffle. If you're ready for that, this book is dedicated to you--the man of today.

Your friend David Hansen.
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Hair Loss

Hair loss

Normal hair loss

 Every person goes through regular hair loss. An average hair growth cycle lasts from 3 to 6 years. Each individual hair grows half an inch a month. 90 % of the hair on your scalp constantly grows; the other 10 % at any one time is at a resting point. This resting hair after 3 to 5 months falls out to be replaced by new hair.

Excessive hair loss

There is no one cause for excessive hair loss. Number of things can affect the way your hair acts. There are many medications that impact your hair in such way; woman may experience minimal hair loss with the use of birth control. Many times after being sick or going through a surgery an individual may also experience excessive hair loss, due to stress and medication. Another cause may be hormonal imbalance; this applies to both males and females. All of these factors contribute to excessive hair loss, but all of them are reversible with certain life style changes.

Common Hair Loss

The most common form of hair loss in men is male-pattern baldness. This type of hair loss is usually an inherited trait. Developing this at an early age usually results in a more excessive hair loss over an extended period of time. This type of baldness starts either at the temples or the crown of the head.

Are there any cures?

If a treatment is available depends on the basis of your hair loss. If it is caused by a certain medication you are using, your doctor may be able to switch you to a different prescription. If the hair loss is due to hormonal imbalance, correcting that issue may also prevent your hair loss.

You may also turn to medical hair implants which are not the right solution for everyone. It is very expensive and time consuming to transplant hair onto a large balding area. Even after the procedure there is a possibility the hairs will not stay in and fall out after a period of time. Another thing to consider when thinking about getting hair implants is that after the surgery you will experience slight pain and discomfort.

Finally there is the solution that we offer at David Hansen. There are many different types of hair replacement systems that may suit your needs.  This includes everything from different base materials such as injected skin  and fine welded mono to diverse ways of attachment. The hair piece is designed to suit your personal needs based on your level of activity, if you would like to take it off or not, and even if you consider going into water with them on. Hair replacement systems are the best and safest way of looking and feeling great.