Hair Loss & Replacement Blog

The stylist I usually use had quit, so I used her replacement. I asked her to cover my grey and re-do the highlights. My hair was medium brown with blonde streaks and after she matched some swatches, I thought everything would be fine. Long story, but she left the colors on for more than 2 hours and now I have jet-black hair–with cherry red/pink highlights. The girl got so flustered, she handed me two huge bottles of products and said not to tell anyone she was giving me free stuff. Everyone in the place stared at me as I left, and I was so upset I didn’t know what to do. So I went back to see her yesterday and she broke down and cried when I pulled off my hat. She promised to "fix it." Today I called the salon and she is no longer employed there. I spoke to manager and she said she was made aware of my problem by other employees who saw my hair. The manager said she would have to call me back after consulting her boss. Does anyone have an idea of what my rights are? I live in Texas.

Okay in July I colored my hair blond did it myself. And it looked horrible! I went into a salon and had a color correction done. Ever since then my hair has been breaking off. Not HUGE clumps. You can’t look at my head of hair and notice any bald spots or anything. I went to the beauty salon about 2 weeks ago now and got about 2inches cut off the length and got tons of layers in my hair. The Stylist said my hair wasn’t damaged. (I was going to chop it off to my chin) She said keeping my hair up in a tight ponytail (which I do) is probably the problem. Which I know isn’t 100% true in my situation b/c my hair has only started breaking off this bad since my color incident. I bought some Pantene Restoration (i think is the name) shampoo/conditioner and hair mask. And gave myself a couple deep condition treatments. My hair still breaks off maybe not as much. Okay…I noticed today that my hair is just still coming out a lot!!! Not from the root or anything. I hot rolled my hair 2 days ago and all day yesterday had my hair up on my head in like a ball just to keep it out of my way. I think using all the hair spray and keeping it in a wad on my head caused the extra breakage..I know stupid on my behalf.What should I do?? Should I cut it all off to about my chin?? Is there anyway to keep my long locs and restore the health to my hair????
Any advice would be beneficial.

Btw…my hair length hits the bottom of my bra strap. And I have short to med. layers throughout hair
One more question. Has anyone had their hair over processed like mine and their hair break off this much? Like I said it’s not clumps of hair..but enough to drive me crazy! Thanks!!!

I take levothyroxine, 50mcg, once a day. I have taken it since 2009 (around August) and the hair loss started about 3 months ago (around June or July). It is coming out rapidly, filling up my brush almost daily and it just keeps coming. My thyroid levels are good. I also have Hashimoto’s but my antibody levels are doing okay.

I thought it might be a side effect of the drug, but everything says that would have started around when I started taking the drug and would be temporary. I now have an almost bald spot above my temple, and who knows where else there might be more.

I have tried to take good care of my hair, I take vitamins, I use good conditioner, I only use a wide tooth comb to brush it almost all of the time, I rarely straighten it, I only dye it about 2x a year max if at all, I don’t over wash it, I don’t use hair ties often and when I do I don’t pull my hair tight or use ones with metal pieces. My stylist told me everything I needed to do to help it be healthy and grow longer (preventing breakage) and I have been doing that for over 2 years. My hair was very healthy, and now, even though it still seems healthy, it is falling out at a frightening pace.

I am 24 years old, female, and under no more stress than I have been my whole life. I have no insurance and can’t see a doctor about it at the moment (money is tight, but has been for years, so nothing new for stress there). I don’t have kids.

The only major change in my life is I started on a slightly higher dose birth control (I was on the lowest does available and having breakthrough bleeding, but I’m still on a low dose pill) about 3 months ago. This is the only correlating event and I was told this couldn’t be the cause.

I have no idea why all of a sudden I started losing my hair. Any help? And please don’t just suggest I see a doctor, I can’t afford it. I need some kind of direction. Thanks.
Oh, and my iron levels are great.

I am a 24 year old male.

No one in my family lost their hair. NO ONE! I have uncles in their 70’s with full heads of hair. Its white, but still there. Dad, brothers, and uncles all have their hair. And I mean all of it. Same goes for cousins. The women have their hair also. About 3 months ago I lost the corner of my hair line. Not the temple, but the corner. Its right where the hairline meets the temple. It just came out over a period of about 2 weeks. There is a gap there about the width of my thumbnail. It goes straight back about 1/2 an inch. Now the same has happened on the other side only its a bit bigger. Now I’m noticing thinness on the top of my head. The stylist thought I was a bit paranoid, but when my hair is wet I can see plenty of scalp in pictures I’ve taken of my crown. Pictures show hair growing out of the scalp but it clumps together to look like a gap. Its wet when I do this so maybe I am just paranoid. The hair loss at the corners of my hairline is real though. She noticed it too. About 3-4 months prior to the hair loss I underwent serious stress. Landlords tried to evict me (it got nasty and I had to get a lawyer). I bombed a very important standardized test (So important the results have completely altered my life plans) and a relative died. All of this occurred over a 3 week period of time. When I’m stressed I put my hand in my hair and pull at the hair line. Not really hard but I’ll rest my head on my hand and forcefully pull my hand through my hair a couple times. On occasion I’ll pull at my crown. I figured my genes would protect me from doing any damage plus it wasn’t so hard that it hurt. Could the stress itself, the fussing with my hair, and a bad college diet mimic a receding hairline. I’m going to a dermatologist but I fear the worst (Male Pattern Baldness).

I read about a maturing hairline on baldingblog.com , but I don’t know. No one in my family has that. I’m freaking out right now. I don’t want to lose my hair. Have I just got some mutant gene? I always had incredibly thick hair. I mentioned that I had a bad diet. I would sometimes eat only once a day. About 3-4 days a week. Usually pizza or something. Other days I would have an apple and some salami for lunch and maybe a steak or chicken fingers for dinner. No sides with dinner though. Would continuing this diet for two semesters be this harmful? I barely ate at all Freshman year (just graduated this semester) and nothing bad happened. I don’t have an eating disorder just a budget disorder. Oh. I also take copious antacids. I have ulcers. I read they can reduce your body’s ability to absorb nutrients.

My doctor is very busy and I have to wait almost a month. Is there anything I should bring up to her in particular? Any advice on what I just wrote would be very very helpful. No provillus pitches please. I get it. It’s a helpful in treating hair loss. Now that you know I know you don’t have to tell me again.

I am 26, I am have been losing alot of my hair for about five years, lots of thinning and resending hair line, and for about 4 months its been extremely itchy, when I went to get my hair cut the stylist recommended nexus shampoo and conditioner so that’s what i been using but I don’t know if that’s the cause for the itching because I tried going but to my old shampoo and everything but its not working. any suggestions. when I sweat or get my hair wet and let it relax without drying it itches worse. any help with hair loss and itching. thanks.