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Alan Beavis is happy with the results of his semi-permanent wig
Alan Beavis says he was always depressed because of his baldness.
The 40-year-old, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, started losing his hair when he was 23 and recently had a hair system, or semi-permanent wig, installed.
Now, she admits, “I can’t stop looking in the mirror.”
“You don’t talk about these things,” he told the BBC. “Everything is swept under the carpet. We need to break that stigma.”
Hair systems, also known as wigs, are made by weaving human or synthetic hair into a lace or polyurethane base.
Before the wig is cut and blended into your natural hair, it is attached to your scalp with a skin-friendly adhesive or tape.
Jody Brown said she has been “inundated” with requests to offer hair systems to men.
Jodie Brown has been a barber for 28 years and runs a hair salon, Kisses and Curls, in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
In May, she said she decided to get trained in installing a hair replacement system to help her husband.
Seeing that it gave him confidence, she started offering this procedure in her salon.
She said she has since been “inundated” with people contacting her, and some men are “very emotional” about the process.
“Always keep trying”
Her husband Wayne Brown said he no longer felt “paranoid” about his thinning hair since he started wearing a semi-permanent wig four months ago.
The 41-year-old said he first started becoming conscious about his hair when he was 32.
In 2018, he underwent hair transplant surgery, which he said was successful for about a year before his hair started falling out again.
“I started wearing hats more and always tried to keep my hair neat when I went out,” he says.
“Years ago, when I went to a boxing event, I was wearing a hat, and they told me to take my hat off.
Wayne Brown said he no longer has to worry about going out after getting his hair styled.
Brown said it was “rewarding” to help people walk out of the salon feeling good about themselves again.
“I think men sometimes try to laugh it off,” she said.
“I want men to be able to talk about their hair loss and not have to hide it and do something about it if they want to.”
