Will Wigs Cause Me To Lose My Hair? Let'S Answer This Common Question Together!!

Hey everyone. Thank you so much for being here today. My name is Denise, I'm also known as Hey wig's sister on Instagram and Facebook. Today, I'd like to answer a frequently Asked question, and maybe do a little bit of myth. Busting question is: will Wigs cause my hair to fall out the answer to that question? Maybe is coming up, so if you want to know more about this, stick around so how's that for a teaser okay. So let's get right into this. I don't want to spend a ton of time talking about this topic. I think it's a pretty straightforward conversation. The first thing I want to say, though, is a bit of a disclaimer. Most questions that are asked in the wig wearing Journey have multiple answers or a uh. It depends type of answer because we're all such different people. We have such individual stories. Individual preferences, individual circumstances, individual conditions, individual needs, individual individuals, you kind of get that theme. So it's really hard to give someone a straightforward answer to a question without knowing a lot more information. I get asked questions every single day. Many times a day. Do people reach out to me either in a comment on a video or on by email on Instagram, wherever it might be, and I am asked questions most of the time. I really can't answer the question because I don't have enough information. So in this case, let's talk about some of the information needed to really give a good, thoughtful, accurate answer. First of all, what medical condition you have that is causing your hair loss in the first place could be potentially exacerbated by wearing things on your head. Now I'm not a medical doctor, I don't know every single condition out there that can cause hair loss, but I can imagine that there are some conditions out there, where the having any kind of pressure or friction on your scalp could be a challenge. I would say: for the majority of people: a wig is not going to cause hair loss. It'S not going to increase your hair loss here is why I think that let's take the wig I have on my head as an example. Right now, this wig is putting really very little pressure on my hair line up in front. It'S just sort of sitting on here. It'S not pulling it's not tugging. The ear Tabs are sitting on my hairline just a little bit but again they're just sort of sitting. There there's not undue pressure on my sides here from the weight cap. Similarly, on the back here, the back of the wig cap, so the bottom of the wig cap is putting a little bit of pressure, creating just the tiniest little bit of friction on my hair right at the nape of my neck. But first of all, I've been wearing wigs for four years. I do not see any extra hair loss in those areas at all, and I don't feel as though it's going to cause any problems now, if you have a condition where you find you have hair loss from wearing hats, and things like that, it could potentially be That putting a wig on your scalp would create the friction or pressure that could exacerbate your condition. So that's something you really want to explore if you're concerned about this, but for the average everyday wig wearer here are some things that you can do to mitigate any extra friction or pressure that you feel along the hairline. The first thing you can do is you can adhere your wig. My two favorite things currently to adhere the front of my wig. Are it stays it's a roll-on adhesive, an oven spray. I have reviews of both of these out there. I will link them in the description for you. The reason why let me take my wig off for you guys. This is a human hair, wig um, One of a Kind wig from lose wigs by the way I've talked about it in other videos. The reason why I like to adhere my wig is because I find my head gets a little bit itchy when I wear wigs, and I think it's because when I don't adhere my wig, it's shifting around just even microscopically just a little bit here and there can Cause some itching on my scalp, especially now that my hair has grown out when I was buzzing, my hair, I didn't have that issue at all, but I'm having that issue again now. So I find when I hear my wigs, they don't shift around. The itching goes away likewise, if you adhere your wigs, then your wig isn't going to be shifting around in those pressure point areas if you're concerned, but you guys you can see. I mean I've got my hair loss is up here. I don't have hair loss down here. Really, I've got thin fine hair, I always have, but I don't have hair loss down here and I've been wearing wigs pretty much daily for four years that you would think. If that were going to cause hair loss, you would see some likewise. I don't really have too much trouble with hair on the sides here. You can see it's a mess right now, but I haven't seen any hair loss there. So I really believe, if you don't have a condition that is unique, very unique, very rare. I don't think a wig is going to cause you to lose your hair, but putting some adhesive on the very front will help keep that wig in place. Keep it from shifting around and creating any extra friction. Now, if you do that, please keep in mind how you remove your wig with the adhesive will either neutrally impact your hair or it could negatively impact the front of your hairline. I hate I hear sometimes of women in the black community, the African-American Community, the community of color that are so great at wearing wigs and they've been wearing wigs forever and ever and it's a normal thing for them. You'Ll hear them sometimes talk about protect your edges, so a lot of times if somebody wears a wig and they adhere it with super heavy duty adhesive that they plan to keep on for a couple of days, if you're, not very careful and very gentle when you Take that off, you could pull on your hair. So let's say, if he's adhesive on here, I don't fully release the adhesive when I go to pull my wig up, I'm pulling on my hair like that that can cause what's called traction alopecia, which we will talk about, because I have a Topper to show you Because these can cause hair loss, and so you want to be careful when you remove your wig, if you use adhesive again, I have been wearing wigs almost daily for four years for a good three years of that I adhered my wig every time I wore it. Now I don't always depending on the situation, but I did not get any extra hair loss that I didn't already have up here in the front, because I make sure that I fully released the adhesive before I pull the wig off and the reason I do that Isn'T really to protect my hairline, because I really don't care about my hairline at this point: it's to protect the lace on my wig. So if you pull on it and it's not released you're stretching and potentially tearing your lace. So there is a very good reason to make sure your adhesive is released. I don't believe if you fully release your adhesive and do zero pulling of your hair. I really believe this will not cause hair loss either. It'S what causes the hair loss is pressure and damage to the hair follicles. So some you'll hear sometimes men who wear baseball caps all the time, maybe thinking they're, getting a little hair loss in the front from their baseball cap, it's hard to say for sure. But what I do notice is sometimes when people wear baseball caps, they wear them very tightly because they don't want it to accidentally blow off. So if you've got the baseball Rim, putting tons of pressure on your hairline and you're wearing it way tighter than we actually wear our wigs that could cause potentially some traction, alopecia type hair loss. I don't believe wigs will do that, though another thing that some people do is they wear a wig grip and they put a wig grip on to help secure their wig again. These are so soft and they're slightly stretchy, so I don't believe wearing a wig grip on your head here. Unless you have a unique condition, is going to cause you to lose your hair, it's just not putting enough pressure on that part of your head, even if you're wearing it for 10 12 hours a day. I just don't see it happening and you guys I've asked lots and lots of people. This question every person I've asked has agreed with me. So this isn't just my opinion. I got ta let a dog in the house hold on for a second. So let's talk about Toppers, because Toppers are a unique situation and I do believe that if you're not careful, Toppers can cause hair loss. So this is a Topper in case you're not familiar. A Topper is like a top piece and it's meant to go on the top of your head so that if you've got hair loss on the top, but you have bio hair, you can put a Topper on to cover up where you have hair loss blend it. In with the rest of your hair, then you don't have to wear a full wig now Toppers generally, there are some that don't, but Toppers generally come with these pressure Clips. So this is a clip, so big snap in to close and snap to open. So this particular topper has four Clips: it's a smaller topper and so the the way that you would wear this is and I'm going to do a video on Topper. So I'm collecting Toppers right now from wig sisters who are willing to donate them to me so that I can show lots of different styles and help you, if you're watching my videos but you're not ready for wigs, yet maybe you're ready for Toppers but anyway. So, that's why I have this one. I don't wear Toppers, but what you do is you take the clip and you clip it into your bio hair and then you snap it shut. I'M not good at this because I don't do it and then that way it will stay on your head, but - and I never could wear Toppers number one, because my hair is so fine. But my scalp is so Ultra sensitive that these clips hurt my scalp really badly, but even brushing my hair has hurt my head since I was little so that's may not be you, but anyway this puts pressure on that part of your hair and it actually is Tight enough and pulls on the hair enough that if you were to wear a Topper every day, the same topper clipped in the exact same spot, you may start to see some hair loss there. It'S called traction alopecia and it's common in people who wear toppers. So, while wigs, I don't believe if you wear them properly, are going to cause hair loss. Toppers may now. What do you do about it? Let'S say you're not ready to wear a wig, but you don't want to cause more hair loss. Well number one. I would get as big of a Topper as you can um and add Clips to it and then alternate the clips that you use, so you can, for example, this isn't a very big piece. So there's not a lot of room on here to add, but let's just say I added a clip right here. Maybe sometimes I would use this clip and maybe sometimes I would use this clip or um. You can add a band if you have a big enough. Topper, you can add a band to it. To give you a little bit more security just like they sometimes add bands to the underside of a wig, and then maybe you don't have to use as many clips. Maybe you can get a they make um wig grips. I don't have one, but they make wig grips where the top part is the wig grip and the bottom part is just a thin string, and so you could put the wig grip on so that you've got your wig grip top to hold your topper so picture. This this is the wig grip. It'S probably about this big and then the rest of this is a string that you tuck, underneath your hair, which I could never do, even if it was a thin string. But let's just pretend you tuck it underneath your hair and then you can put your topper on now. A little topper like this probably won't work, but a bigger topper might so then you can have it held on by maybe even use the clip somehow on the topper and then you can protect your head. So, let's summon sum this up do Wigs cause hair loss. I would say for the vast majority of wig wears, the answer is no, that does. I do not believe that Wigs cause hair loss. I do think there are exceptions to that. I do think there could be situations where it might exacerbate hair loss. I think you can wear wigs in such a way that it could cause such as adding clips into your wig wearing wigs. That are, you know, maybe inappropriately sized for your head and way way too tight, so they're putting a lot of pressure on certain parts of your head, um and then using adhesive in properly and not removing it fully before you remove your wig, thereby pulling on the Hairline causing traction type alopecia, so I think if you are currently looking into wigs, I'm not sure if I got this on right now that my hair is growing out, I'm struggling with my wigs, I'm really thinking about cutting buzzing, it all off again um if you're Looking at these videos, you're not sure you're not wearing wigs yet, but you think you're headed in that direction. You'Re looking for some solutions to hide your hair loss, please don't let yourself be scared by some of the misinformation out there. On this topic. I'Ve had women. Tell me that their dermatologist or hair loss specialist that they were seeing, told them that wigs will cause their hair loss to become worse. I don't know where that kind of information is coming from, but it makes me really angry because um when people share information, that's not it's well researched or experienced, it can really hurt people, and I believe there are some people out. There purposely giving misinformation to sell products if someone's bread and butter is selling you, hair, regrowth, serum and pills and vitamins and things to grow your hair back. The last thing they want you to do is start wearing wigs because most of the women that I know once they get used to wearing wigs, they start to figure it out. They know what looks good on them and all of that there's no going back. Most women, I know who are enjoying the wig Journey, would never stop wearing wigs, even if their hair grew back. That'S some lost business for someone I hate to be jaded that way, but I just see it too much and it really upsets me because there are women out there really hurting who need good information who need support and don't need someone to mislead them. For selfish reasons, anyway, that's my soapbox, that's enough of this. I hope this helped you if you were wondering about this, if you have a different opinion, please share it in the in the comments. If you have a different experience, please share it in the comments. I'M not a doctor, I am a wig sister. Who'S been wearing wigs for four years, who's been losing her hair for over 20.. I have a reasonable level of intelligence. I pay attention to what people say. I'M I ask questions all the time, so I feel really confident that what the advice that I'm giving here is reasonable and generalized to the general population, I always know that there are going to be outliers, there's always going to be a different experience, but I think For the vast majority of people wearing wigs should not add to your Stress and Anxiety over hair loss. I think it's a great solution, a difficult one at times a challenging one in the beginning, but one that can help you get your confidence back. It'S done that for me, and it's done it for hundreds and thousands of women, so many of whom I personally have had interactions with in the four years. I'Ve been doing this, let me know if you guys have any questions. I hope this helped you I'm always open to feedback, though thanks for watching you guys, I will talk to you soon.