Active Hair Loss

Hair pieces have a long and humorous history in most cultures. In many media, the wigs are a common topic or theme of jokes and sarcasms. Sometimes these jokes would revolve around the fact that how inefficient these hair pieces were in concealing the bald patches of the wearer. In most cases, the wearer became the butt of all jokes as he would not himself be aware of  the inefficiencies of his hair piece. The comic almanac had many digs the hair pieces worn by bald men. It would depict strong winds blowing off a man’s wig-a joke that became common in times to come. In the 20^th century, the hair piece became a butt of jokes in almost every media. These included cartoons, films, television, radio, etc. But nowadays, it is the celebrity clientele that has increased the sale of hair pieces.

The use of wigs or hair pieces grew in the US in the 1800s. A shift in values had occurred regarding the notion that aging occurred with time. Men wished to look young and started wearing hair pieces. The wish to grow young was so great that men preferred to tell their age to be 39 instead of 40! There was a mass hysteria about growing young. The census is a proof of this statement. In the modern times, hair pieces were used widely and in the 1950s it had a clientele of 15 million people! These hair pieces were usually promoted by a company calles Max Factor. The hair pieces were so magnificently made that it made all the bald patches invisible. The pieces also looked very real and lifelike. Such was the amount of effort put into its manufacturing.

Hair pieces are partial wigs made up of natural or synthetic hair and are worn to cover partial baldness. Sometimes these are used by thespians for particular characters. Thus these are also items of make-up. These are usually worn by people who face a lot of hair loss and cannot reverse the process even through the costliest of treatments. Mostly men resort to these techniques. But nowadays, women also use hair pieces in the form of extensions to enhance the beauty of their crowning glory. Hair pieces do face competition from alternate methods of combating hair fall. Thus there is a lot of research going on to modify these items and to further diversify their use. They are nowadays available in the form of modified extensions, wigs, transplants and weaves.