Snippet from the article:
Mavis Bradley has always prided herself on her appearance. ‘Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve always followed what’s in fashion and tried to look my best,’ she says.
Despite this, she accepted that growing old gracefully would also change the way she looked. So when her eyebrows gradually faded away a few years ago, she put it down to old age.
‘Because that had happened, when I noticed about four years ago that my hair looked a little thinner at the front, I didn’t pay much attention. I presumed it came with old age.’
In fact, Mavis was suffering from a type of alopecia that affects post-menopausal women, damaging the hair follicles so that the hair falls out and cannot grow back.
Read the full article — Receding hair, the new epidemic in older women
Bad hair days turn into bad hair years as some people’s hair change as they age. The article covers some interesting points.
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