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BBC News
23-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Stoke-on-Trent hair treatment returns alopecia swimmer to pool
A keen swimmer said getting treatment for her alopecia to restore her hair gave her the confidence to get back in the from Staffordshire, said she tried different methods over the years for her androgenetic alopecia but none worked and the hair loss badly affected her confidence."I didn't really go out, hardly at all. For years, I'd given up really," she finally found a treatment which worked, at a salon in Stoke-on-Trent, and said getting her hair fully back was "brilliant". "I swim in it, I go to bed in it, I've had to learn how to style it," she added."You just kick yourself that you didn't find it years ago." Ruth, who did not want to give her full name, said she had years of struggling with her type of alopecia which caused hair loss all over her head."I've got hardly any hair there is nothing you can do really," she said."For me, going to the hairdressers was like going to the dentist - but worse."It's so embarrassing, I can't tell you, it's nerve-wracking to even just to go to a normal hairdressers. I hated going, you feel like everybody is looking at you."The hairdressers themselves don't know what to do with your hair." The 62-year-old tried wearing wigs but said she found them old-fashioned, uncomfortable and impractical."The wigs are awful in the heat," she reflected. "They were itchy and really uncomfortable to wear."She was not able to have extensions fitted after she said she was told she was not suitable, as she did not have enough of her own March, she had a consultation with Stacey Clarke, from Specialist Hair Enhancement (SHE), in Hartshill, fitted Ruth with an integrated hair system, a process of attaching real donor hair to existing hair using mesh and tape."[Customers] think and feel that they're alone but it affects more women than you can imagine," Ms Clarke said."Most clients are extremely nervous, definitely lacking confidence, sometimes they don't even want to look in the mirror."I'm proud of what I do. It's just so rewarding. I love it."
Wall Street Journal
07-07-2025
- Lifestyle
- Wall Street Journal
Hair Kept Our Ancestors' Brains Cool—And Gave Them an Evolutionary Advantage
The most luxurious human characteristic—and the one that preoccupies us the most—might be our hair. We curl it, dye it, cut it, braid it and straighten it. We style it to suit our self-image, spending around $100 billion a year globally on its care.
Daily Mail
21-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
How your hairdresser could convince you to go green: Experts call for roll out of 'eco-stylists' to encourage Brits into sustainable lifestyles
Once a trip to the hairdresser's involved nothing more challenging than a chat about your latest holiday. Now it seems a quick cut and blow dry could come with a conversation about your carbon footprint. Experts are calling for state-sponsored eco-stylists to nudge clients towards sustainable lifestyles. It comes after a pilot scheme found that what we chat about in the salon changes our everyday lives. A report revealed chatty stylists are the perfect influencers to subtly bring about behaviour change. Hairdressers have previously been trained to spot signs of domestic abuse. In the pilot scheme – called Mirror Talkers – stickers carrying green tips were stuck to salon mirrors to spark conversations, and 73 per cent of people subsequently pledged to make planet-friendly changes to their haircare habits. Now ministers are being urged to back schemes that could see subliminal lectures in unlikely places – including cafes, restaurants and farmers' markets. The latest study – led by Oxford University and the Government-funded Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations – wants to tackle 'pluralistic ignorance relating to climate action'. It claims hairdressers have 'considerable untapped potential regarding the influence [they] could have on clients'. 'While researchers can equip people with the tools and knowledge to become better at public engagement, in fact, hairdressers are already experts,' it says. The authors, convened by Oxford's Dr Sam Hampton, envisage salon chats 'beginning with haircare as a point of connection, but expanding to broader conversations about energy, transport, food, investments, carbon literacy and intergenerational responsibility'. Calling for funding, they concluded: 'Yielding the power of everyday influencers to build public consensus is an under-utilised strategy which demands new approaches to climate policy.' The latest study also involved the Universities of Southampton and Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
This is the strange mark on my big toe that my nail technician told me to get checked out... she saved my life
They trim our hair, polish our nails and ease our tired muscles – but beauticians, manicurists, hairdressers and barbers can do far more than that. In fact, many are now trained to potentially save our lives.
