Yeah, I flirted with a hair system for several months. Here is an excerpt from my entry in the "Tell Your Story" forum on this MB that discusses my experience with my rug:
"...By my Junior year of college, my hair went through another period of recession. My temples were gone. Way gone. I was being compared to Bruce Willis, although I still think I had a much better hairline than him. Nevertheless, it was receeded to the point where I did not look like someone with a 'high forehead', I looked like someone who was just plain bound to lose his hair. And after a breakup with a girlfriend I got a wild hair and decided to try out a hair system.
Worst mistake of my life. Well, when I first got it on, I was overjoyed! It looked fantastic and it really did a number for my self confidence. The problems started cropping up slowly. First, the maintenance required to keep a hair system is quite rigorous. It is very time consuming, and got in the way of an on the go lifestyle. After three or four months of haircuts, there were other problems. I realized that people who know me could tell that one part of my hair was real, and another part fake. This is because while real hair pumps out a continuous stream of keratin at a steady and consistent color, the hairpiece had to be dyed each month. So, it would start off dark right after my servicing, and then slowly fade to a very light brown when it was time for another haircut. People noticed, and I developed a real defensiveness about it. The initial confidence was lost.
Then came the bombs. Now people were flat out asking me if I wore a rug. People at work. Whenever I would come into the office or now that I think about it anywhere I went where people I knew well and saw often, people would always look at my hair first. Then I started dating, and there came that fateful moment where she wanted to run her fingers through my hair and I had to flinch my head away. She said, why are you doing that? I said, because I wear a hairpiece. That look on her face said it all. All of these factors, in addition to many more scenarios that I don't have the time to go into made me decide to get rid of it after 5 months.
My first piece-free day was wonderful. Everyone around me was so supportive and nice, and I finally realized by their reactions that despite my best efforts (HOURS every morning) I was fooling no one. I actually did not lose any more hair over that period, and actually kept a respectable NW2.5 through age 34."
