Hair today, gone tomorrow? One woman's quest to find a fix for her thinning tresses.(the ultimate solution to prevent hair thinning)(Viewpoint essay)

W, March, 2007 by Wilson, Anamaria

I have long envied glamorous women like Maria Callas or Eva Peron who could effortlessly pull their hair back into glossy chignons the size of a softball. When wrestled into a chignon, my hair--if we're keeping to sports analogies--bears closer resemblance to a golf ball.

This wasn't always the case. Not too long ago, I could swear I had thicker, healthier tresses. My brunette curls fell to my collarbone in a mass of shiny, feisty tendrils. But then one morning, I looked in the mirror to the terrifying realization that I had someone else's hair. My tresses had become fine and wispy, the curls shrunken into feeble ringlets. No lustrous mane to flick around casually in conversation or sweep into a sophisticated up do. I now had hair that refused to grow much past...

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