Just received a hair loss diagnosis?

27 November 2020

There’s a heap of information to take in in the first few days. The medical treatment side of things, let alone the time needed to get your head around what’s going on. You may be working on a specific time frame until your hair loss occurs, or no specifics at all.

You may take the immediate decision to purchase a wig – for extensive women’s hair loss that can be quite a clear cut decision. But you may have too much remaining hair to wear under a wig, but significant patches that need covering, or diffuse thinning hair that needs managing. Headwear can be really useful for any of the above reasons, even if it’s only to take time out from wearing a wig.

Here’s a few things to consider before buying your hair loss headwear –

It sounds obvious but worth saying, we know headwear won’t replace a full head of bio hair, BUT it can be really useful in managing your ‘everyday’, 7 days a week. So if you need a quick casual cover up for the school gate, rugby match, supermarket trip – there are great styles you can pull on and go; in rain, wind or sunshine. These styles will be different to going into the office, or for an evening out and wanting to look dressy. Think about where you spend most of your time and when purchasing, bear that in mind.
Choose your headwear for the lifestyle that you lead – if you work in an office (Harlow in Monochrome – far left), you like to exercise (Nessa in Blue – middle), you work outside (Bobbi in Storm Grey – far right), or maybe in a school with children – there are many, many styles that can work in all ‘situations’.
Colour is really important – you know the colours that suit you. Your wardrobe is full of the clothes that you’ve been drawn to because of their colour. If you love green and wear a green hat, it will probably suit your eyes / complexion and certainly match whatever you choose to put on that day.

It’s understandable to think ‘I’ll buy a black hat. It will go with everything.’ Above is our Genevieve cap – the same style seen in 3 different colours. Notice how the colour changes the shape and look of the hat – the Claret Rose is by far the most popular colour in this style. Colours around our face work slightly differently – consider colours that lift your complexion rather than close it down. For evening it can be super chic but we tend to wear more make-up and possibly a brighter lipstick when we’re in ‘evening’ mode. Every day, black can drain colour, particularly if you are about to undertake any treatment that will add to fatigue levels.

4. Face shape – this is important because there is a hat style to suit everyone of us, a style that simply ‘works’ when we try it on. However it is handy to know what your face shape is and how they suit different hat shapes – see our face shape and hat link below. Some hats have more width or height to them, a peak, small brim, turban twist at the front, asymmetrical detail off to one side – whatever it is, when you put it on and look in a mirror, you’ll begin to see what suits.

Here in the studio we’ve really noticed this at the moment, with customers coming in for a fitting masked up. We can’t accurately assess whether the hat is working without seeing 100% of the face underneath it. A quick socially distanced ‘reveal’ helps us assess if the shape is working and colour is complimenting skin tone.